It's still a shock to see the pictures and read the story. And I hope that this near disastor helps mobilize a capital campaign that will rebuild the ship, and recommission her for sailing! I do remember prowling aboard her in 1997.

While revisiting Sydney, Australia, I was amazed at the work that went into restoring the James Craig and then even more amazed when I learned they were actually sailing her.

I also remember reading how C. Fox Smith took such great delight in being a passenger aboard her as she was towed to Greenwich (See THE RETURN OF THE CUTTY SARK, by C. Fox Smith, © 1924), knowing that she was to be restored rather than scrapped for salvage.

Charley Noble