After £50 million pounds and almost six years of intensive fire damage restoration work the world's most famous tall ship, the Cutty Sark pulls in visitors to London from all round the world - as one of the world's fastest sailing ships ever built and held the record for sailing between London and Melbourne in Australia for over 10 years...
these iconic 'tall ships' were eventually replaced by steam powered vessels, a few reels of film shot nearly 100 years ago captures the difficult conditions under which the crew worked when the wind they so coveted pushed the faster boats along at nearly 20 knots - with two men having to manthe double wheel...
with hundreds of near-fable like stories emerging over the years recounting the hardships and hard weather endured by the boats when rounding the notorious Cape Horn off the southernmost tip of South America.
