Eric-

Could you provide a link so we could learn more details? Big ships, ecen relatively small clipper ships, require large budgets to maintain them. Certainly the Cutty Sark preservtion folks should be able to figure out how to reach the next level of fundraising.

San Francisco? What's the problem there? When I was there last September the C. F. Thayer crew was looking forward to receiving a sizable Federal grant for a total rebuild. Has this grant been delayed by the need to reallocate all Federal funds to our President's war on Iraq?

Charley Noble