How easily the stuff of dreams becomes our worst nightmare. When fire swept through CUTTY SARK on May 21, 2007, and left her looking like a charred and hopeless ruin, I confess I wept like a man bereaved. It was as if I'd suddenly lost an old and very dear friend. As the sole surviving tea clipper, the 140-year-old CUTTY SARK, which has been in its dry-dock in Greenwich, England, since 1954, occupies a unique niche in the world's maritime heritage. To those who love the ship, she is not some static museum object, a curious relic of the long-forgotten past, but the living embodiment of that sublime moment when art and engineering, commerce and seamanship were fused into one perfect form.
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