Cutty Sark

**pg55555** · 05-02-12, 12:10

Whilst a fascinating programme, particularly interested in the way the rigging was preserved.

Unfortunately they wimped out on the extra funding provided after the fire. They "forgot" to ask why the ship had not been properly insured (with something like £6 million pound having to be found for this error. And they also did not explain why an additional £5m had to suddenly become necessary (although there were moans prior to the fire that the design/management of the project had been inadequate (any proof ?). And, of course, the programme didn't explain why, or how, the Heritage Fund suddenly found the extra £11m.

At least when it came to Lord Sterling's intervention (nominally about the "newly" revealed problems of he dry dock) the programme was a little more forthcoming, even if it meant a lot more public money.

NOT a very good advert for public accountability.

**Seaweed** · 05-02-12, 12:24

Nor anything about how the fire took hold so without being discovered.

**finknottle** · 05-02-12, 15:08

Originally Posted by Flagdeck

No, we're both from Yorkshire...........so, financially speaking, we have something in common. We look after 't brass.

I apologise for meandering.

Salt of the earth Yorkshire folk. When my Dad was discharged from the Gordon Highlanders after the war he went down to York to do his teachers training, we moved down from the land of oatcakes and whisky when he had finished his training, living in Sherburn-in-Elmet, Heslington then into York. I have always thought that the people have more in common with the Scots than the English southerners.

**Flagdeck** · 05-02-12, 16:57

Originally Posted by finknottle

I apologise for meandering.

Salt of the earth Yorkshire folk. When my Dad was discharged from the Gordon Highlanders after the war he went down to York to do his teachers training, we moved down from the land of oatcakes and whisky when he had finished his training, living in Sherburn-in-Elmet, Heslington then into York. I have always thought that the people have more in common with the Scots than the English southerners.

Tykes motto...........hear all, see all, say nowt...... eat all, sup all, pay nowt..............and if tha' does owt for nowt, allus do it fo' thysen !

**broadside** · 06-02-12, 13:38

Originally Posted by Magda

I know someone who's working on restoring her (re-rigging her mainly), a major feat of engineering and patience from what I can gather.

She'll be just as beautiful as she once was, I'm sure.

Now then, do you mean Cutty Sark or Flagdeck's wife? Why is life so confusing?

**BreathingOutOnTheWayUp** · 02-04-12, 11:06

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Cutty Sark rises from the ashes as finishing touches made before it reopens to public - Telegraph