Did Clavell's Asian Saga send anyone else here? Just imagine the story he could have weaved with this tea clipper history providing the wind. Ah, to read how Tess and Gornt humbled Brock and his whelp . . .
It’s a shame more people haven’t watched this video. I live in San Diego and saw this boat docked here a few weeks ago and the presence it still has on me is great.
A splendid documentary. I found Moshulu on Amsterdam, in 1970. I was on SS Chusan, in the Band at the time. I, the ships photographer, and our Drummer climbed on board. I always carried, " Eric Newby's Last Grain Race on my travels. I would have loved to have met him.
It's a nice boat no question about it but it's definitely a charter yacht, not a dignified family cruiser. The salon is smaller than on 595 and looks very uncomfortable and unwelcoming perched between two flights of stairs. The whole boat screams easy money, pricey champagne and expensive prostitutes.. The layout is cluttered and confusing with doors and steps everywhere. There isn't a single full width space that you can raise or outstretch your arms. And who the heck uses nav stations anymore, come on! Nerve center my bottom! If you want to chart a course or check the boat, just drop on the couch and get your laptop... or even your phone. I want to say that I hope one day someone will order this model for his family, but I HAVE seen one specified for family cruising and it doesn't look any better. Same narrow corridors, steps and doors everywhere. And the same ridiculous salon. This boat looks MAGNIFICENT on the outside promising something spectacular inside. But it doesn't deliver. I MUCH more prefer the 745. I also suspect 745 has more usable space, too. PS Special note to the narrator. There is no such thing as "home from home". It's just not a thing. The phrase you're looking for is "home AWAY from home". Don't be lazy, it's just two extra syllables.
Fabulous story and wonderful video footage (of course not of the Cutty Sark) Downside listening to the drivel from some right wing nut job explaining how healthcare is un American. My fault for listening.
My family tree shows that I had two GT GT GT Grandfathers who sailed on the Cutty Sark, one was the cook George Cunningham and the other Captain Woodgate, I have never visited the Ship Yet I am now 77 years of age and I would like to go one day
I learnt a much shorter version of this story on a school trip to see the cutty sark. I was not expecting much from this documentary but added a lot to what I learned 55 years ago.
I met an old guy in hospital in the early 80s who had sailed on sailing ships he wrote a book that was passed around the ward and he told story's of bullets hit the side of ship sounding like hammers hitting the ship and contraband carried.
I wonder if the "Clipper Captain Campbell" and "Malcolm Campbell of jet powered Hydroplane racing fame"... world fastest ( 141+ MPH ) on water at the moment of his death, ...are they related?
More than 50 years ago I changed our Destryers, Aircraft Warming Lights ( tip top main mast) in the Shipping lane in the Black Sea, ...during brutal snow squalls and high winds. The Russians insisted.... They sent destroyers, cruisers, and container ships,and more passed..., for the 2 hours that this once in a lifetime task took. SO BEAUTIFUL and Deadly... LOL.......Rrrrrrrrr, The Sea ain't no joke. Ships at Sea are the way... "A ship in A Harbor is safe, ...but that is not what they are made for".
All hands are lucky that there are schools still that give a 101 on how to handle a square rigged ship!! After a year of experience,one could apply as sailing Master on Constitution! Current comand has no idea on how to maneuver her under tonsils n jibs.theres alway a tug along side. Believe all hands should do 2 yrs on HMS Suprise on west coast...no motor there...shame that our national treasure should be handled by incompetence...
The latter day clippers were off keel They became more and more off keel over the decades. They became death traps the sailors jumped at the first port. 1800 was about the last seaworthy design for clippers. If they could have built on keel they would have seen the better speed and rudder control of the on keel design.
Excellent documentary, just consider this ,no GPS, no digital navigational systems, no computers, no radio or satellite communications, no Autocad or 3d printers, and yet look at all that they achieved.
The USS Harwood, DD861 did it for me..., "No Imagination Needed". Two storm seasons running, we were told "goodbye by Navy / Coast Guard", In the Atlantic, and Mediterranean Seas. Third Year in a row, a heavy Russian Attack in Mediteranian Sea, all but ended our days, with 750 women and children aboard USS Puget Sound/ AD38. 125 + wounded women and Children..., >>>>> You Never heard about it. I hurt a woman and a little child with my M1 rifle, in a pitch black passageway. Mag Pulsed, we were without power. I also ran the children's movie theater when not responding to That Nuke Alert. "Very sad seeing those civilians in such terror", and the Battle wound dressings. TRUE STORY.
