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The Cutty Sark, a clipper ship emblematic of the tea race and merchant sailing ships

The Cutty Sark, a three-masted clipper that sailed in the lucrative tea trade between China and England in the 19th century, has now found a vocation as a museum ship in London. It remains one of the last surviving examples of the Victorian era.

A flagship of marine technology

Designed in 1869 by the Scott and Linton shipyard in Dumbarton, Scotland, to plans by architect Hercules Linton, the Cutty Sark was commissioned by London shipowner John Willis of the Jock Willis Shipping Line. With dimensions of 85 meters and a tonnage of 963 tons, she was fitted with 32 sails covering a total surface area of 3,000 m².

The name "Cutty Sark" has its origins in the ship's figurehead, inspired by the witch Nannie Dee described in Robert Burns' poem "Tam o' Shanter". This figurehead depicts a woman wearing a shirt that is too short, earning her the nickname "cutty-sark" in Scottish, literally meaning "little cut shirt". In 2021, a new bow sculpture, embodying Nannie, was erected on the Cutty Sark. Crafted by artisan Andy Peters, this representation draws its inspiration from Linton's original design.

The Cutty Sark was launched on November 23, 1869, under the command of Captain George Moodi. Her carrying capacity was 600 tons of tea, or around 10,000 cases.

The Cutty Sark belongs to the penultimate generation of merchant sailing ships, preceding the heyday of the great steel cap-horners. Her hull is coated with a copper alloy, composed of 70% copper and 30% zinc. Its innovative design, combining wooden planking with an iron structure, resulted in an extremely robust and rigid vessel, offering more space for cargo. The hull was originally clad in Muntz metal, a composite developed in Birmingham.

She was one of the last clippers to see the light of day, surviving the rise of steamships. At a time when these imposing vessels were dedicated to transporting goods around the world , Cutty Sark stands out as the last model still preserved, making her a vital historical witness to the history of the United Kingdom .

The tea race

Clippers like the Cutty Sark were distinguished by their exceptional speed and maneuverability, frequently averaging over 9 knots. Built at a time when tea clippers represented the apogee of maritime technology, the Cutty Sark distinguished herself in fierce competitions, such as the famous "Tea race" of 1866.

Engaged in this frantic tea race, the Cutty Sark took part in a memorable duel in 1872, competing with her rival the Thermopylae. Although arriving a week after her rival, the Cutty Sark made maritime history for her exceptional speed .

Decline and renewal

The completion of the Suez Canal coincided with the launch of the Cutty Sark, marking a crucial period in the history of maritime navigation. This coincidence introduced a shorter route to China. Clippers, faced with difficult weather conditions and onerous tolls, lost their dominant position in maritime trade. By 1877, only nine of them dared to make the voyage to China, compared with sixty in 1870. After eight voyages, the Cutty Sark was forced to abandon the tea trade in the face of the advent of steamships. Nevertheless, she found a new vocation as a wool carrier from Australia and New Zealand, setting a record for a 67-day crossing to London.

The return journey from Australia required the Cutty Sark to round the dreaded Cape Horn , where icebergs, stormy seas and the roaring 40s presented formidable challenges. Captain Woodget photographed these icebergs and ensured the ship's place among the fastest afloat. The Cutty Sark is credited with a record 360 nautical miles covered in 24 hours, at an average speed of 15 knots, in its class.

In 1895, John Willis sold the Cutty Sark to a Portuguese company, who renamed her Ferreira. For the next 27 years, the ship served as a general cargo carrier, making Atlantic crossings between Portugal, the west coast of Africa and the American continent.

After her use by the Portuguese, the Cutty Sark was purchased in 1922 by Captain Wilfred Dowman, who undertook an ambitious restoration to bring the ship back to her original appearance. Becoming the first historic ship open to the public since the Golden Hind in the 16th century, the Cutty Sark welcomed many visitors.

Transformed into a cadet training ship, the Cutty Sark trained a number of young aspirants from a variety of backgrounds for careers in the Royal Navy or the Merchant Navy. On Captain Dowman's death in 1936, his widow donated the Cutty Sark to the Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College in Greenhithe. On her departure from Falmouth in 1938, the ship drew rapturous applause. It was her last time at sea.

In 1938, Cutty Sark became an auxiliary ship to the cadet training ship HMS Worcester in Greenhithe, Kent. She was then used to train officers for the Royal and Merchant Navies, a crucial mission with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. In 1951, the ship was moved to London for the Festival of Britain celebrations, but her condition attracted the attention of advocates determined to save her from demolition.

Under the aegis of the Cutty Sark Society, founded by Frank Carr, Director of the National Maritime Museum , Prince Philip took possession of the Cutty Sark on behalf of the Society at a special ceremony prior to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. In December 1954, the ship was towed into a purpose-built dry dock at Greenwich. Three years of painstaking restoration followed, returning the Cutty Sark to her tea clipper appearance. She was officially inaugurated by Her Majesty the Queen in 1957.

A museum ship

Since 1954, the Cutty Sark has been transformed into a maritime museum affiliated to London's National Maritime Museum . Class I listed and recognized as a National Historic Ship within the National Historic Fleet, she was also designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. She now sits in dry dock alongside the River Thames in London's Greenwich district.

In 2007, a fire damaged the ship while it was being restored. Fortunately, about half of the ship's original elements (the masts, most of the upper floor and the rudder), as well as the furniture and fittings, were preserved as part of the renovation work, escaping the disaster. The damage affected the entire central structure of the ship, but spared the hull and exterior decorative elements. The ship's characteristic stern was also preserved. However, the interior structural elements and most of the inner deck floor, as well as the steel structure supporting the entire hull, were too severely damaged to be preserved, requiring a complete rebuild.

Despite these setbacks, an ambitious conservation project, "Saving Cutty Sark," was launched to restore the yacht.

After years of renovation, the Cutty Sark continues to captivate visitors, symbolizing the grandeur of Britain's maritime past.

On April 25, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II reopened the clipper after an extensive restoration .

To preserve the shape of the hull, the ship was raised three meters off the ground, offering a unique opportunity to walk beneath its slender lines.

What does the Cutty Sark "crew" do?

At sea, the Cutty Sark's crew had to constantly maintain and repair the vessel to ensure its safety and buoyancy. Although she no longer sails, ongoing care is necessary to preserve this 155-year-old vessel for all to enjoy. Every day, a team chips, paints, polishes and repairs every part of the ship.

The Cutty Sark is made from a variety of materials such as teak, rock elm, iron and brass, all of which require specific maintenance methods. Much of the vessel's maintenance follows an annual cycle due to the differentiated effects of the elements on its components, such as the shrinkage or expansion of wood in response to external temperature variations, which can lead to cracks or even leaks.

Some jobs, such as polishing the brassware, require frequent repetition, while others, dictated by urgent needs, are less regular. For example, the poop deck, the raised area at the stern of the ship, requires new planks to keep the area below dry.

Working with specialists from TS Rigging, the team of shipowners will spend the next few months replacing the existing deck using traditional techniques. They will be using iroko, a wood with properties similar to those of the original teak, which, although durable and of high quality, is now difficult to obtain in an ethical and sustainable way. The use of oakum and pitch for caulking is traditional.

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We invite you to become a member of our volunteer team, building a true copy of the tea clipper, sailing the new ship around the world.

We would like to invite you to join our project of constructing and sailing an exact replica of one of the most famous and perfect sailing ships in the history of the world – the tea clipper “ Cutty Sark ”. We have an ambitious plan – to build and then sail a replica of the clipper with the help and participation of the public.

Become part of the enthusiastic team that lives out the dream to revive the art of traditional sailing, a group that believes in adventure, team spirit and supports this magnificent project.

• To create interest and educate the public in the traditional skills of composite/wooden shipbuilding. And preserve our maritime heritage for future generations by building a replica of the clipper “Cutty Sark” as a sea going vessel.
• To promote education in the art of operating and maintaining ships under sail by providing training in seamanship to young people of all nations.
• To promote sail-powered shipping as an environmentally friendly alternative form of transport.

Why the Cutty Sark?

To promote sail training and tall ship racing. Just as before, when the speed and the rivalry of the clipper ships quickly caught the public’s imagination, we believe that a replica of the Cutty Sark will bring back the glory and media attention to the world of Tall Ship Racing.

To promote environmentally friendly transport on the seas. Delivering her cargo under sail, she was as beautiful as she was fast, the perfect sailing ship of her era. Now she will promote environmentally friendly transport by sea.

To save traditional skills and knowledge for future generations. Cutty Sark is a composite-build ( wood planked on iron frames ) sailing ship and building the replica is a unique way to restore and save traditional skills and knowledge for future generations.

International trade and friendship. The Cutty Sark was a ship of international trade; she has significance in worldwide maritime history, especially in the UK, Portugal, China, Australia and Brazil.

Anniversary of the launching of the original Cutty Sark. The 150th Anniversary of the launching of the original Cutty Sark will occur on 22nd November 2019.

Startup phase 2015-2019

Start of work with volunteer team; Crowdfunding campaign; Developing preliminary draft of ship’s construction; Searching for a construction site; Initial promoting the project to the media and public, creation of project’s website;

Fundraising and planning 2019-2020

Shipyard setting 2020

Keel-laying ceremony.

Construction process 2020-2023

Operating 2023 onwards, an interactive museum ​.

The process of building the Cutty Sark 2 will be open to the public.

Where possible, construction processes will be organised as a “performance” with interactive elements; a venue where everyone can see and touch “living“ history and take part; an excellent forum to arouse the attention of the media to international maritime history. ​

Ship’s design ​

The ship must not only function as an interactive display but also be suitable for different operational roles – sail-training and cargo transportation.

We’ll create an environment where people will enjoy the teamwork, learning and socializing. ​

Media Coverage ​

From the start, including identifying the sponsors and patrons, throughout the construction process and up to the launching of the vessel, we want this project to be permanently covered by the media. ​

We aim to interest various international TV channels to follow us throughout the process. The media will follow us to the rainforests in South Asia to cut the teak for the decks, and to northern America or Canada for oak for the hull. They will be able to see the ship taking shape and follow her launching and first adventures on the high seas! ​

Schooner “St Peter” (80 feet, 1991)

Frigate “Shtandart” (110 feet, 1999)

Clipper “Cutty Sark 2” (212 feet, 2019)

The initiators of the project are a group of highly motivated people, knowledgable in building traditional square-rigged ships. Our team has the expertise required when operating in the world of Tall Ships. Specifically in marketing, public relations and logistics.

Cutty Sark is an international project.

As the original Cutty Sark was constructed from materials that came from various countries and during her active life she sailed the seven seas, we want this project to be international in all its different aspects. It should also be accessible to people of all nations and all walks of life, and when finished sail the world as an ambassador not of just one country, but as a living proof of unity between people with heart and soul for traditional ships and the seas .

Vladimir Martus, Team Leader

Vladimir Martus started his sailing career at 14. He has raced for his country’s National Sailing Team for 12 years (Olympic classes). Graduated from the St Petersburg University of shipbuilding as a naval architect in 1990. Built two large wooden replica sailing ships: Schooner “St Peter” (80 feet, 1991) and frigate “Shtandart” (110 feet, 1999). As captain of the Shtandart, he has taken part in Tall Ship Racing since 2001. Vladimir has directed several large maritime events and festivals. He was Chief Liaison officer in St Petersburg TSR 2009. He is also a qualified RYA Yachtmaster/Instructor  and President of the non-profit sail-training organisation “Shtandart Project” .

David T Morgan, Esq, MBE, TD

CUTTY SARK 2SAIL Foundation Chairman

David is Chairman of the Maritime Heritage Trust and previously of Heritage Afloat, and Vice Chairman of the Cutty Sark Trust. He is Deputy President of the Transport Trust and a Committee Member of Europa Nostra Industrial and Engineering Heritage Committee.

David is also Founder President of the European Federation of Museum and Tourist Railways and the World Association of Tourist Trams and Trains.  He served as Chairman of Heritage Railway Association  until 1st June 2014, and is also Chairman of Great Central Railway Plc and Vice President of the West Somerset Railway and President of the North Norfolk Railway. His initial involvement with preserved railways was as legal advisor, since he is a solicitor.

David retired from practice at the end of Ferbuary 2013.  He served for 32 years in the Territorial Army, ending up with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was decorated with the MBE by the Queen in 2003 for his services “to transport preservation in the UK and Europe”.

Mr John Robinson

Captain Chris Blake OBE

Captain Blake joined the Merchant Navy in 1962 and 13 years later moved to sail training. He has been captain of the Sir Winston Churchill and Malcolm Miller (Great Britain), STS Ji Fung (Hong Kong), STS Leeuwin (Western Australia), STS Kaisei (Japan) and delivery master of STS Young Endeavour, Britain’s bicentennial gift to Australia.

In 1993 Captain Blake took command of the replica vessel Endeavour and sailed her around the world twice, rounding both Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope during her travels to Europe and the Americas from Australia.

He holds the International Master Class I certificates with a square rig endorsement.

Captain Blake has been awarded the Freeman of the City of London, and Freeman of the City of Newark, USA. In 1996 he was awarded the Cutty Sark Medal for outstanding seamanship and leadership, and in 2001 received the OBE for services to Sail Training and Youth Development.

Perry Joiner

I just moved to Scotland from the San Francisco area, where I lived with my family on a 50 foot Ketch, after living on and maintaining a 105 year old Dutch Clipper in France for two years.

I’ve spent a lot of time at Maritime Museums in San Diego onboard the Star of India and San Francisco on the Balaclutha dreaming of seeing them under a full press of sail. The ship I served on in the U.S. Navy, in Public Affairs, is now a museum in San Diego, and the difference between a living ship and a museum piece is tangible and dramatic.

I’m a volunteer public relations officer for the United States Coast Guard as well as an Instructor and Vessel Safety Inspector. I am excited to see this project come to reality.

Charles Hardy

A keen sailor at the center of the south coat of England who’s sailing routes travel back many generations. Originally a boat builder by trade and passionate to help realize this project and doing what I can to help make it happen.

Kseniya Aksenovskikh

In love with color and line, Kseniya delivers visual sensation. Her beautiful images and drawings help pull the project together.

She is working incredibly hard to create and maintain a corporate identity which is giving the project a beautiful profile across the media.

Pete Sedgwick, UK

A designer and boat builder with marketing experience, Pete offers us his wisdom and broad knowledge in marketing and strategy. For the last 15 years he has been building replica traditional wooden boats. Now he is moving on to ships! He is up to his neck in this BIG dream – helping to create the next famous British tea clipper.

PM von Kaenel (Michele Stephens), UK

Michele von Kaenel is a veteran broadcaster and media consultant who helps our team stay active and move forward. Tall ships have always been a fascination of hers, so when this project surfaced she immediately applied to join the Team.

Bo Forsström, FI

Liaison officer for the Tall Ship Races and business development manager, Bo gets great satisfaction from how sail training challenges young people and makes them grow.

Lina Radova

Lookout Watch

A natural sales executive, Lina is happy to help with searching for construction sites and generating creative crowdfunding ideas. She is the engine that keeps us going and she never stops thinking out of the box. She speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese, and links the project with many countries.

Roman Abylkhatov

Roman Abylkhatov is an IT engineer at Microsoft UK. For the Cutty Sark Replica project he is responsible for establishing the IT infrastructure to help coordinate the team work and volunteers activities online.

Maria Savelieva

Maria Savelieva is a Logistics manager in consumer electronics production. She is experienced in international trade management, launching new sites, growing required supply chains. Focused and flexible, her job is to drive government relations, negotiations with officials and suppliers, and to develop the project structure and income opportunities.

Istvan Bordacs

Istvan Bordacs was a leader of the support department and also a project manager in the Hungarian Telecom company, he now runs his own business in IT, 3D printing and UAV areas building from the ground up. He has managing, marketing, electronic, programming and strong development skills. He has a degrees in IT engineering and an MBA. He saw Cutty Sark in a magazine when he was a child and he always wanted to build her in his dreams. Now the dream has started to become reality…

Dmitry Ryabchikov

Started to sail on board of Shtandart at age of 12. Since then he became a professional seafarer and spent 14 years on sailing ships all types and sizes – from smallest yahts to giants like Kryzenshtern and Star Flyer. Last 5 years works on Shtandart as a sail trainer and a ship’s officer. In Cutty Sark project looking for the ways to integrate classic sailing ship in modern reality. RYA Yachtmaster Offshore. Second captain of frigate Shtandart.

Mr Thomas Hoppe, Trustee

Thomas Hoppe is Vice-chairman of Gemeinsame Kommission für Historische Wasserfahrzeuge (GSHW).

Thomas is a qualified lawyer and runs his own Legal Consultancy Firm. He is also a keen sailor.

Non-governmental organization for private owners of traditional ships, as well as for maritime museums and other interested bodies.

Sail-loft established in 1987, continues the tradition of Konrad Korzeniowski’s sail-loft (1945-1987)

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Potential construction place – VIila do Conde, Portugal

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The cutty sark, maybe the last great ocean view waterfront dive, closes this week after 60 years.

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Jay Thompson and Karyn Crounse take their dingy to Cutty Sark for dinner Wednesday, September 22, 2020, evening,

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A picture on the wall at the Cutty Sark restaurant, showing floodwaters climbing the restaurant walls. As seen Sept. 21

Mel Greene and friends toast to the closing of their beloved Norfolk watering hole, Cutty Sark, on Wednesday, September 22, 2020, evening.

Bill and Selina Koop will be closing their marina and bar, The Cutty Sark, after 60 years in business — co-owned with Bill's brother, Jimmy Campbell. Seen here Sept. 21, 2020.

Cutty Sark regular John Tripp and friends share stories about the old days at their favorite restaurant Wednesday, September 22, 2020, evening.

After 55 years, Norfolk's Cutty Sark will close this weekend. As seen Wednesday, September 22, 2020.

At the Cutty Sark Marina and Grill, it looks a little like everyone bought tickets to jump into the bay.

On a Friday evening in the golden hour before twilight, there’s a crowd lined up the whole length of a narrow dock in Norfolk’s East Beach, booze invariably in hand. Even near low tide, the waters of Little Creek wobble perilously close to the boards.

The old crowd has all come out to pay their last respects to the Cutty Sark, which will close after about 60 years of burgers and boats. But the Cutty is already too full to accept them, precisely half-packed with celebrants during the pandemic.

The Cutty is maybe the last of the great old Ocean View waterfront dives, a storied and makeshift marina bar at 4707 Pretty Lake Ave. with $3 bourbon and ginger on Tuesdays, live music performed atop a bar stool and fried or griddled pretty much everything.

In gentrified East Beach, whose condos now rise like tiered wedding cakes over Little Creek, the Cutty is a stalwart survivor from the old rough-and-tumble go-go bar days of Ocean View , with loyal regulars who’ve beached here over generations like the boats on the blocks outside.

It’s the sort of place you might earn your hangover on a Saturday night next to anglers and off-duty police — former Norfolk sheriff Bob McCabe, whose corruption case now winds through the courts, was reportedly a fan — not to mention wealthy retirees from the new buildings across the street. And if you’re so inclined, you could cure your headache the next morning with steak and grits, alongside families just coming from church.

“You could be sitting next to someone and not be sure where they’ve been or what they’ve been doing, and they have more money than God,” server Rosie Bowen told The Pilot in 2012 .

But at least today, it seems, everyone knows everyone.

“Well hey, I didn’t know you all were here!” says a guy with a gray horseshoe mustache and mysteriously wet sneakers, who’s just wandered out from the bar with a fresh rum and Coke.

“The real party’s outside!” his friend shouts back.

Jed DeLaune, a trim-goateed regular identified by another patron as “the mayor of Ocean View,” strides down the dock to more high-fives and fist bumps than a Super Bowl player coming out of the tunnel.

But after Sunday, the Cutty Sark’s last day of business, it will all be gone.

Its owners, half-brothers Bill Koop and Jimmy Campbell, sold the place last year, and have been renting month to month ever since. The restaurant and marina are soon to be demolished, making way for construction crews who plan to lay wiring for the hulking luxury senior apartments being built next door.

Eventually, the site will become a new and more modern restaurant and marina, complete with a swimming pool, says Samantha Tricoli of Arlington-based Bonaventure Realty, the marina’s new owners.

For its regulars, it can’t be replaced.

“I think it’s a shame,” says Doug Prosnick, a landscaper who’s been coming here for years and looks a little like Terence Stamp. “It’s one of the last really local places — one of the last local, cheap places.”

He says he’ll follow his favorite servers and bartenders — Mike, Melody and Stefanie — wherever they go.

For John Tripp, smoking stoically in the marina’s gravel lot, the place might as well be home. His wife tended bar here, and his son, Joe, worked in the kitchen. Tripp himself now runs the boat lift for the marina.

Tripp points to a mammoth white boat that had apparently beached itself at 31st Street on the Oceanfront and stayed stuck for days. “That came in at 1:30 this morning,” he says.

He says he doesn’t know what he’ll do for work when the marina shuts down. What he’ll miss, though, is the people.

“A lot of people have been coming in here since they were kids,” he says. “Their parents brought ’em here, and they keep coming here, and then they bring their kids here.”

But if you talk to Bill Koop, who’s run the place with his brother for more than half of his 74 years, he’ll tell you it’s time to retire.

“I’ve been here 35 years,” Koop says. “It’s been a lot of work, and some heartache, and a lot of battling with regulations. And it’s time. It’s just time.”

Rough-and-tumble beginnings

The Cutty wasn’t always what it is now, a burgeoning deck bar with live music and tables looking out on the water.

The expansive deck didn’t exist, for one. The Cutty was just a tiny room with a 13-seat counter and two burners behind it. The bathrooms were so cramped, says bookkeeper Lorena Rice, that you had to “hold one door open and reach in to open the door to the ladies’ room.”

The Marina and Grill was founded in 1958, if you believe the sign out front — Koop says the year is an educated guess — started by Elton Denney, who owned the land for 14 years before that.

Lacking heirs, Denney passed the marina and bar in 1979 to its operator, James “Lewis” Campbell. After Campbell’s death three years later it passed to his widow, Mildred — Koop and Jimmy Campbell’s mother — who liked to visit the marina after she retired and look out on the boats passing by.

And with the marina, each new owner also inherited a 15-year lawsuit, a convoluted land-rights challenge filed in 1967 that The Pilot in 1982 likened to the never-ending legal case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House.”

That suit, centering on a 25-foot strip of land described in a 1903 plat — a stretch of land nobody could find, because of the changing shorelines surrounding the Pretty Lake wetlands — was finally undone after the court found that the land surveyor for the plaintiff had lied about having a college degree.

“We still pay taxes on that 25-foot strip,” Koop says. “Nobody knows where it is, but we still pay taxes on it, and I’m sure these people (Bonaventure) will continue to pay taxes on it.”

When Koop and Campbell took over in the ’80s, the neighborhood and the marina were much different than they are now — a much rougher area that Tripp remembers used to have “prostitutes all over across the street.”

Koop says he had to take charge of the marina, in part by means of a fistfight with some of the boat tenants he’d inherited from his stepfather.

“I had two of them attack me on Father’s Day, I think, of 1982,” he says. “I mean literally attacked me physically. But I picked one of them up and threw them in the water. And after that, they found out I was gonna be here to stay. And they started leaving.”

Bill Koop acknowledges that between him and his brother, he had the reputation as the mean one — although he used a word to describe himself that might have run afoul of the grill’s short-lived but well-remembered ban on cussing.

“We threw some people out over it,” remembers Selina Koop, Bill’s wife and the bar’s kitchen manager for 17 years.

Bill also remembers the time he and Jimmy threw boxes at each other behind the bar, in one of their many squabbles.

“We threw cardboard boxes at ourselves out here one day, I don’t remember why,” he says. “But for two brothers running a bar together for 35 years, we got along all right.”

For much of its life, the bar was a well-kept secret tucked behind the boats. In the ’90s, the grill’s pool table abutted the bathrooms, and was placed so close to the windows that players kept sending pool balls out the windows.

“You couldn’t shoot pool, but they shot pool,” Koop laughs.

The expansion years

Koop credits his daughter, Amy, with helping change the bar from a spot for old salts to a place that families might come to for breakfast — in part by inaugurating the rich she-crab soup and rib eyes and breakfast grits that have now become Cutty Sark mainstays.

“She really turned this place around,” Koop says, bringing the Cutty from a spot where they might do $100 in business a night to a place where they brought in thousands, eventually overtaking the marina in both revenue and prominence.

In 2003, Selina Koop took over the kitchen, where she’s been ever since. The Cutty took out the pool table, put in booths, and eventually expanded in 2011 to a much larger enclosed deck space that originally was cordoned off from the elements only with curtains.

That’s how the duck got in.

“It was a couple years ago,” Selina Koop says. “A duck got in and somehow got up on the bar umbrellas and just wouldn’t leave. We had a heck of a time trying to get her out.”

And so the duck just stayed. The bar had to get used to her up there for days before she finally left of her own accord. A decade before that, the bar had made a pet of a rockfish that used to hang around in the winter.

“Every year we had five or six big rockfish swimming around, you could see them plain as day,” Bill Koop remembers. “We had one we named Rocky. You’d feed him bread and he’d come up and go, ‘blup.'”

But each year, there were also the floods.

“I had so many claims with FEMA, it’s like they blame you for the storm,” Bill says.

Maybe once or twice a year, the Koops say, the waters pushed up by a nor’easter came feet-high into the bar — so often they had to engineer a system of hoists and lifts to raise the beer kegs and refrigerators.

“We have 24 jackstands,” Selina says. “If anything down here was below the waist, it went up above the waist.”

And then the bar stayed open, even with waters 2 or 3 feet high.

“We’d have people sitting in here with water up to the barstools,” Bill remembers. “One time somebody even brought in sailboats and we had a little regatta inside the bar.”

“You could pee in your seat and nobody would have noticed,” Selina laughs.

But that’s the kind of place the Cutty Sark is — so ingrained into the lives of its customers, over so many years, that they come in even when the creek is high enough to wet their knees.

For some, this bar is the closest thing to family they have.

“We do potlucks for Christmas, for Thanksgiving, for people whose families are far away,” Selina says.

“We’ve done benefits here for our employees. You know: Two cancer, three cancer, four for cancer — one whose knees gave out. Everyone kind of pulls together and gives what they can.”

Bill admits that as much as he grouses about the work required to keep the Cutty running, he’ll miss the old place. “It was the one thing I ever got a kick out of.”

Selina laughs at this.

“It’s the only place he and Jimmy even know how to be anymore.”

They sold the marina a year ago, but it took Selina by surprise when the time finally came to shut it down.

“I thought I’d have a few more months,” she says.

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About the Cutty Sark Wooden Scale Model Ship

This wooden scale model of the Cutty Sark was custom built from the following information:

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History of the Cutty Sark

The Cutty Sark was one of the last clippers built for the China tea trade by Scott, Linton & Company, Dumbarton, Scotland. She was launched in 1869 with a complement of 28.

She was built for John ‘Jock’ Willis who wanted the Cutty Sark to be the fastest ship in the annual race to bring home the first of the new seasons tea from China.

The Cutty Sark name was “short shirt”; a Scottish name coming from the poem “Tam O’Shanter”, in which Tam secretly spies on the witch, Nannie, who is clad in a Cutty Sark.

Only the finest materials were used to build her.  Willis, however, was very disappointed in the Cutty Sark’s early performance, as she never beat her rival the Thermopylae, on her passage home from China.

Their most dramatic encounter took place in 1872 as they both sailed, fully loaded from Shangai to London.  The Cutty Sark was about 400 miles ahead of the Thermopylae in the Indian Ocean when she lost her rudder and thus lost the race.

There was a great rivalry between clippers and steamships as the steamships were faster and cheaper to carry cargo from the East.  In 1878 the Clippers, as a result of this, were out of the tea trade.  The Cutty Sark was used to cargo coal, jute, hemp, wool or whatever cargoes were available. Unfortunately, her cargo capacity was much smaller than the full-bodied sailing ships of the period and she was barely profitable.

In 1883 she was under command of Captain W. Moore, carrying a cargo of wool from Newcastle, Australia in a splendid time of 79 days to England.  Richard Woodget became her celebrated master and the Cutty Sark remained in the wool trade through 1893. She completed her last voyage to Australia in 1895 and was sold to J.A. Ferreira of Lisbon.

In 1916 the Cutty Sark was dismasted in a hurricane and re-rigged as a barkentine.

In 1922, Captain W. Dowman purchased her and restored her as a training ship at Falmouth. After his death, his widow donated the Cutty Sark to the Thames Nautical Training College and in 1954 she was opened as a museum at Greenwich.

The Cutty Sark  has been damaged by fire twice in recent years.  Firstly on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation.  She was restored and reopened to the public on 25 April 2012. On 19 October 2014, she suffered minor damage in a smaller fire.  She has reopened to the public shortly after.

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Among the most famous old sailing ships still extant, Cutty Sark was one of the last clippers built for the China tea trade. Ordered by Captain John Willis of London, her hull was of composite construction, with teak planking on iron frames.   Cutty Sarks name is short Scottish for short shirt and comes from the Robert Burns poem Tam OShanter. The reason for his choice of name is not known. Willis insistence that only the finest materials be used in the construction of the Cutty Sark resulted in the bankruptcy of her original builders. Denny Brothers, who took over their yard, then oversaw her completion. Even though she lost one of her most dramatic encounters with her main rival, Thermopylae, she still acquired the admiration of London, for the persistence of her crew. She completed a 16,000-mile journey in one hundred and nineteen days, by no means an illustrious feat; the admiration was the inventiveness of her crew in building makeshift rudders twice, as she had lost her rudder in severe gales.

The advent of the steamships and the opening of the Suez Canal meant that clippers were no longer economic, and by 1878, clippers were out of the tea trade. A number of unfortunate accidents happened on board the ship between 1878 and 1883. These included a murder and one of her Captains (Captain Wallace) going mad and jumping overboard. In 1883 however, things were about to change for the clipper ship. She did the return journey from England to Australia (under Captain W. Moore) with a cargo of wool through the Cape of Good Hope in seventy-nine days. As with the tea trade, speed was also a critical factor for the wool trade. Richard Woodget, who became Cutty Sarks most celebrated master, succeeded Moore.

Her best run was in 1888, where she did the journey in sixty-nine days, shaving an amazing ten days off her previous record. She completed her last journey to Australia in 1895, and was sold to J. A. Ferreira of Lisbon. Four years later, she was again sold to the Cia de Navegacao de Portugal and was renamed Maria di Amparo. 

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IELTS Cambridge 13 Test 4: AC Reading Module

Reading Passage 1 :

The headline of the passage:  Cutty Sark: the fastest sailing ship of all time

Questions 1-8   (TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN):

In this type of question, candidates are asked to find out whether:

The statement in the question matches with the account in the text- TRUE The statement in the question contradicts the account in the text- FALSE The statement in the question has no clear connection with the account in the text- NOT GIVEN

[TIPS: For this type of question, you can divide each statement into three independent pieces and make your way through with the answer.]

Question 1: Clippers were originally intended to be used as passenger ships.   

Keywords for the question: originally intended, used as passenger ships  

To find the answer to this question, we need to locate the keyword ‘originally intended’ which is in paragraph no. 2, lines 1-2. Here, the author writes, “The fastest commercial sailing vessels of all time were the clippers, three-masted ships built to transport goods around the world , although some also took passengers .” Here, the lines say the original purpose of such ships was to carry goods, but some of them took passengers.

So, the answer is: FALSE

Question 2: Cutty Sark was given the name of a character in a poem.  

Keywords for the question: given, name, character in a poem

The answer to this question is in lines 1-3 of paragraph no. 3. The author writes about the naming of Cutty Sark, “… . .Cutty Sark’s unusual name comes from the poem Tam O’Shanter by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Tam, a farmer, is chased by a witch called Nannie, who is wearing a ‘cutty sark’ – an old Scottish name for a short nightdress .” Here, the lines indicate that Cutty Sark was the name of a dress, not the name of a character in the poem.

So, the answer is: FALSE                  

Question 3: The contract between John Willis and Scott & Linton favoured Willis.   

Keywords for the question: contract, John Willis and Scott & Linton, favoured  

Paragraph no. 4 talks about the contract . The answer is in lines 2-3. The lines say, “To carry out construction, Willis chose a new shipbuilding firm, Scott & Linton , and ensured that the contract with them put him in a very strong position .” These lines suggest that Willis chose Scott & Linton and he made sure that he would be in a very good position. Here, in a very strong position = favoured Willis.

So, the answer is: TRUE                    

Question 4: John Willis wanted Cutty Sark to be the fastest tea clipper travelling between the UK and China.

Keywords for the question: wanted, to be the fastest tea clipper, between the UK and China

In paragraph no. 5, lines 1-2 talk about the travels of Cutty Sark as a tea clipper, “Willis’s company was active in the tea trade between China and Britain , where speed could bring ship owners both profits and prestige, Cutty Sark was designed to make the journey more quickly than any other ship ….” The lines clearly indicate that the ship had a unique design to be quicker than any other ship doing trade between the UK and China.

So, the answer is: TRUE                    

Question 5: Despite storm damage, Cutty Sark beat Thermopylae back to London.

Keywords for the question: despite storm damage, beat, Thermopylae,

The last lines of paragraph no. 5 have the answer to this question. Here, in line 10, the author states, “Cutty Sark reached London a week after Thermopylae .” So, Cutty Sark failed to beat Thermopylae on the way back to London.

So, the answers are: FALSE

Question 6: The opening of the Suez Canal meant that steam ships could travel between Britain and China faster than clippers.  

Keywords for the question: opening, Suez Canal, steam ships, travel, faster than clippers

We can find the reference to the Suez canal opening in line no. 2 of paragraph no. 6, Then in lines 5-6, the writer explains, “…. …Steam ships reduced the journey time between Britain and China by approximately two months .” So, clippers did not have permission to use Suez Canal, so they used the old route, steam ships took advantage of passing through the Suez Canal and reduced the journey time by two months.

So, the answer is: TRUE

Question 7: Steamships sometimes used the ocean route to travel between London and China.  

Keywords for the question: sometimes used, ocean route, to travel, London and China.

In paragraph no. 7, there is no reference to steamships using ocean route between London and China.

So, the answer is: NOT GIVEN

Question 8: Captain Woodget put Cutty Sark at risk of hitting an iceberg.   

Keywords for the question: Woodget, put, at risk, hitting, iceberg

The answer to this question is in lines 3-4 of paragraph no. 8. Here, the writer says, “And Woodget took her further south than any previous captain, bringing her dangerously close to icebergs off the southern tip of South America.”  So, Woodget took the risk to bring Cutty Sark dangerously close to iceberg.

Questions 9-13 (Completing sentences with ONE WORD ONLY):

In this type of question, candidates must write only one word to complete sentences on the given topic. For this type of question, first, skim the passage to find the keywords in the paragraph concerned with the answer, and then scan to find the exact word.

[ TIPS: Here scanning technique will come in handy. Target the keywords of the questions to find the answers. Remember to focus on Proper nouns, random Capital letters, numbers, special characters of text etc.]

Question 9: After 1880, Cutty Sark carried __________ as its main cargo during its most successful time.  

Keywords for the question: after 1880, carried, main cargo, successful time

The answer lies in lines 4-6 of paragraph no.8 where the author says, “This marked a turnaround and the beginning of the most successful period in Cutty Sark’s working life, transporting wool from Australia to Britain.” So, the clipper Cutty Sark transported wool as the main cargo.

So, the answer is: wool

Question 10: As a captain and __________, Woodget was very skilled.  

Keywords for the question: captain and, Woodget, very skilled

The answer lies in line 1 of paragraph no. 8 where the author says, “…The ship’s next captain, Richard Woodget, was an excellent navigator …”.

So, the answer is: navigator

Question 11: Ferreira went to Falmouth to repair damage that a _______ had caused.

Keywords for the question: Ferreira, went, Falmouth, repair damage, had caused

We find the answer to this question in line no. 1 of paragraph no. 10. The author says, “… . . Badly damaged in a gale in 1922, she was put into Falmouth harbor in southwest England, for repairs.”

So, a gale damages the ship.

So, the answer is: gale

Question 12: Between 1923 and 1954, Cutty Sark was used for _________.

Keywords for the question: Between 1923 and 1954, used for

The answer is in line no. 1 of paragraph no. 11. Before that we can see the year 1922 in paragraph no. 10. Then, in this paragraph no. 11, line no. 1 says, “Dowman used Cutty Sark as a training ship, and she continued in this role after his death. When she was no longer required, in 1954, she was transferred to…..” So, Cutty Sark was used as a training ship in between 1923 and 1954.

So the answer is: training

Question 13: Cutty Sark has twice been damaged by __________ in the 21st Century.

Keywords for the question: twice, damaged, 21 st century

The answer is  in Paragraph 11 lines 3-4, “ The ship suffered from fire in 2007, and again, less seriously, in 2014 …”

So, there are two cases of fire that damaged the ship.

So the answer is: fire

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• Sofia: 5 + 1 ( source )
• Lyon: 5 ( source )
• Gothenburg: 4 + 1 ( source )
• Krasnogorsk: 5
• Genoa: 5 ( source )
• Tbilisi: 5 ( source )
• Riga: 5 ( source )
• Bucharest: 5 source
• Donesk: 5 ( source )
• Tirana: 3 + 2 ( source )
• Katowice: 4 ( source )
• Tallin: 4 ( source )
• Hamburg: 4 ( source )
• Mannheim: 4 ( source )
• Basel: 3 + 1 ( source )
• Skopje: 4 ( source )
• Bonn: 3 ( source )
• Düsseldorf: 3 ( source )
• Dnipro: 3 ( source )
• Leeds: 3 ( source )
• Lisbon: 3 ( source )
• Eindhoven: 3 ( source )
• Marseille: 3 ( source )
• Essen: 3 ( source )
• Prague: 3 ( source )
• Turin: 3 ( source )
• Helsinki: 3 ( source )
• Valencia: 3 ( source )
• Luxembourg: 3 ( source )
• Minsk: 3 ( source )
• Malmö: 2 ( source )
• Liverpool: 2 ( source )
• Copenhagen: 2 ( source )
• Rome: 2 ( source )
• Bilbao: 2 ( source )
• Alicante: 2
• Krasnoyarsk: 2
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 2 ( source )
• Oslo: 2 ( source )
• Szczecin: 2
• Sarajevo: 2 ( source )
• Bremerhaven: 1
• Nürnberg: 1
• Offenbach: 1
• Augsburg: 1
• Fellbach: 1
• Timmendorfer Strand: 1
• Ostermundigen: 1
• Dübendorf: 1
• Winterthur: 1
• Brighton & Hove: 1
• Poutsmouth: 1
• Sheffield: 1
• Leeuwarden: 1
• Spijkenisse: 1
• Rijswijk: 1
• Enschede: 1
• 's-Hertogenbosch: 1
• El Ejido: 1
• La Coruña: 1
• Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: 1
• Los Barrios: 1
• Ponferrada: 1
• Villajoyosa: 1
• Zaragoza: 1
• Cesenatico: 1
• Frederiksberg: 1
• Budapest: 1
• Klaipėda: 1
• Rostov-on-Don: 1
• Arkhangelsk: 1

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KlausDiggy said: A little more accurate list. Manchester is in 15th place. I also included T/O buildings with [+]. (Since there is no reliable data for Russian and Turkish cities, I simply used estimates.) Istanbul: >300 Moscow: >300 London. 109 + 10 ( source ) Paris: 81 ( source ) Ankara: >75 Kiev: >60 ( source ) Izmir: >40 ( source ) Frankfurt: 39 + 2 ( source ) Benidorm: 30 ( source ) Warsaw: 29 ( source ) Vienna: 26 ( source ) Rotterdam: 24 ( source ) Baku: 21 ( source ) Batumi: 12 + 8 Manchester: 14 + 4 ( source ) Madrid: 17 ( source ) Milan: 17 ( source ) Brussels: 17 ( source , source ) Barcelona: 16 ( source ) Bratislava: 14 ( source ) Yekaterinburg: 12 Berlin: 12 ( source ) The Hague: 12 ( source ) Amsterdam: 9 + 2 ( source ) Belgrade: 10 ( source ) Cologne: 9 ( source ) Naples: 8 ( source ) Birmingham: 5 + 2 ( source ) Munich: 6 ( source ) Stockholm: 6 ( source ) Lyon: 5 ( source ) Gothenburg: 4 + 1 ( source ) Vladivostok: 5 ( source ) Sofia: 5 ( source ) Genoa: 5 ( source ) Tbilisi: 5 ( source ) Tirana: 3 + 2 ( source ) Katowice: 4 ( source ) Tallin: 4 ( source ) Riga: 4 ( source ) Hamburg: 4 ( source ) Mannheim: 4 ( source ) Bucharest: 4 source Bonn: 3 ( source ) Düsseldorf: 3 ( source ) Leeds: 3 ( source ) Eindhoven: 3 ( source ) Marseille: 3 ( source ) Essen: 3 ( source ) Prague: 3 ( source ) Turin: 3 ( source ) Liverpool: 2 ( source ) Copenhagen: 2 ( source ) Rome: 2 ( source ) Valencia: 2 ( source ) Bilbao ( source ) Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 2 ( source ) Oslo: 2 ( source ) Krakow: 2 Sarajevo: 2 ( source ) Woking: 2 Click to expand...

Dreiländereck said: Your list is incomplete and strange. For Russians and Turkish cities you don`t have a source and only estimate, but on the other hand you miss to count country in heart of Europe as Switzerland? If I understand your counting correctly then you consider towers, constructions above or equal to 100 meters and then you can implement please in your currently held ignorant list Basel with 4 towers constructed Liste der Hochhäuser in Basel – Wikipedia Thought you are German speaking Klaus Diggy, to miss a German speaking town in your list, is for me somehow disappointing... Click to expand...

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New Lights Festival 2024: Kraken Harp

Join us at Cutty Sark  to hear new music for harp and ensemble with Trinity Laban

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"Below the thunders of the upper deep...  The Kraken sleepeth" The Kraken, Alfred Tennyson

Performers:

Trinity Laban Contemporary Music Group Trinity Laban Harp Department Gregory Rose Conductor Gabriella dall’Olio Kraken Harp

Trinity Laban Contemporary Music Group presents the final of the Daryl Runswick Composition Competition alongside a new work by Trinity Laban composition professor, Dr Amir Konjani. The unusual and yet beautiful sea monster-like Kraken Harp designed by Konjani will take centre stage at Cutty Sark for the premiere of his new work for Kraken Harp and ensemble, with esteemed harp soloist Gabriella dall’Olio.   "The Kraken Harp was inspired by images of lilies, rib cages and an ancient Persian form of the harp called a Chang. One advantage of this design was that I could make each string/lever separate notes meaning that one could play Bb and B simultaneously in different octaves. The harp projects most of its notes through its wide tentacles, spatialising the field of sound to produce a kind of stereo" - Dr Amir Konjani.

The programme:

Trinity Laban student composers ( Final of the Daryl Runswick Competition for Composers ) | Seven new works for electric harp and ensemble Amir Konjani |  New work for Kraken Harp and ensemble

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