Model boat kit

Cutty Sark

Kit by Billing Boats

Cutty Sark is a tea clipper designed by Hercules Linton and launched at Dumbarton in 1869 to race cargoes home from China. When steamers took the tea trade she moved to carrying wool from Australia, where she made some of the fastest passages of her day. She has been preserved in dry dock at Greenwich since 1954.

The kit builds a 1:75 model with a wooden hull, 110 cm long and 67 cm high with full rig. Billing Boats rates it Expert, the top step of its four experience levels.

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