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Cutty Sark
May. 21st, 2007 11:07 amThe news reached me, and I was momentarily quite sad, and then...
..then the old question came up - if THAT amount of money is put into restoring a ship that only gets worse every passing year, why not invest in a replica? It could be near-exact (allowing for new safety legislation) and it could actually SAIL. Since I'm a firm believer in sail training and sail learning being in the doing, not the walking around on a lifeless hull, I really wish that the PTB would allow Cutty to rest and build a replica to honour it instead.
Maybe it helps that I'm so aware of the financial struggle of the Tall Ship Youth Trust, which does very good work, but has a lot of trouble maintaining its ships. Ships are basically holes in the sea where you pour money into to keep them floating...
..then the old question came up - if THAT amount of money is put into restoring a ship that only gets worse every passing year, why not invest in a replica? It could be near-exact (allowing for new safety legislation) and it could actually SAIL. Since I'm a firm believer in sail training and sail learning being in the doing, not the walking around on a lifeless hull, I really wish that the PTB would allow Cutty to rest and build a replica to honour it instead.
Maybe it helps that I'm so aware of the financial struggle of the Tall Ship Youth Trust, which does very good work, but has a lot of trouble maintaining its ships. Ships are basically holes in the sea where you pour money into to keep them floating...