This is an overview page with links to details on other pages.
“Where there’s a will is a way”
The Cutty Sark 2Sail Foundation is organised and managed by an international committee and volunteer team comprising of individuals who have considerable management, marketing, educational and practical skills which are relevant to this type of undertaking.
Building a permanent shipyard
-
- Building location for other sailing ships
- Maintenance site for any tallships
- Filming location for movies (workshops, ropery, slipway, dock etc.)
- Accomodation for visitors and workforce
- Cargo loading and storage area for Fair Trade vessels
- Permanent job offers
- Small historical boat building area, like Cutty Sarks’s boats
- Manufacturing and selling ship parts to sell: wheel, blocks, ropes, sails, paddles, gifts etc.
Building Cutty Sark 2 the Open Source Clipper
As the original Cutty Sark was constructed from materials that came from various countries and during her active life she sailed the seven seas under different flags, we want all our projects to be totally transnational.
- Make the most accurate technical plan of Cutty Sark by the public
- Professional Naval architects supervise the plans
- The plans will be open source, every body can use it for model making, for constructing ships or for learning
- Parts of the ship can be manufactured by volunteers in the shipyard. Only some parts, that exceeds our abilities will made by third parties.
You can visit Cutty Sark 2 at ports and you can sail on her too. She will be a real working and accurate living example of the history.
Building Thermopylae
Thermopylae was the fastest clipper in the famous Tea Race. The same open source method will apply.
Race between the Cutty Sark and the Thermopylae
To run again the historical race between the two ships again, to compare these vessels quality. Cutty Sark lost her rudder during the race, so the it was never proved, whick one was faster.
We hope you want to be on board.
Movie about the Great Age of Sail
Making a movie is a complex task. We can give the location, the ship and the crew. Building the ships are also a documentary worth topic.
Eco friendly cargo transportation
To develop a transnational cooperation strategy this focuses on promoting a cleaner and healthier marine environment. Also to revive the traditional techniques and skills associated with shipbuilding practices and the sailing expertise developed during the Great Age of Sail.
To attract attention to climate changes by demonstrating the ecological and environmental benefits associated with the carrying of cargo under sail. It is intended to use the new Cutty Sark II for transporting dry goods on the great circle routes as well as more local destinations. It is envisaged that this will also create marketing opportunities for a widening spectrum of fair trade and other suitable commodity providers on a worldwide basis.
cargo hold image
Square Rigger Sail Training
To train young people in the skills and techniques of both building and sailing square riggers as well as promoting technologies designed to create a cleaner and more efficient marine transport environment will be the other major objectives of the Foundation.
Building more square rigged tallships
The Charlotte Rhodes (the Onedin Line’s famous schooner), and other clippers like Ariel, Taitsing, Halloween etc. to create the biggest ever seen green clipper line. We don’t want the climate to change while transporting your needs.