Among the most famous old sailing ships still extant, Cutty Sark was one.  She is the most famous tea clipper built, and is the only one that survives.

In 1869, Cutty Sark set out to be the best clipper of all those in the golden age of sailing.  She met her destiny three years later by crushing the fastest clipper at the time, Thermopylae. The 963-ton Cutty Sark’s daily sailing distance averaged 163 miles, reaching speeds as high as 14 knots.  The term Cutty Sark means short shirt or short skirt and the term was shouted by Tam O'Shanter in Robert Burns poem of the same name Tam O'Shanter the shout being "Weel done Cutty Sark" as witches and warlocks were dancing a reel in an ancient abbey in Scotland.

Cutty Sark, the beautiful clipper ship launched at Dumbarton on the Scottish Clyde, was renowned throughout the seafaring world and won a place in the hearts of British seamen, coming second only to Nelson's own immortal H.M.S. Victory.

Cutty Sark now stayed at a dry-dock at Greenwich.

This Cutty Sark masterpiece features:

• Scratch-built

• Double plank-on-frame

• All parts are wooden or metal

• Masterly painted

• Realistic old-looking thin sails

• Copper-plated bottom: individual copper pieces that were weathered unevenly to create a realistic look (not a large piece of metal with faked lines.)

• Realistic deck that made up by short individual weathered plank (not a large piece of wood with faked lines)

• Full number of boats 

44" long x 34" tall              $890           sold out

36" long x 25" tall              $890           s&h $130

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