Editing Cutty Sark (section)

====Fundraising====
[[File:Cutty Sark under restoration after being damaged by fire - geograph.org.uk - 906599.jpg|thumb|left|''Cutty Sark'' during repairs after the fire]]

The design for the renovation project by Grimshaw architects with, during design development stage, newly established Youmeheshe architects and [[Buro Happold]] engineers involved raising the ship out of her dry berth using a [[Kevlar]] web, allowing visitors to pass under the hull to view it. Unfortunately it was discovered that the proposed web would not follow the reverse curves of the ship's hull which would effectively mask the hull's shape from view. An alternate design for the support of the ship had to be developed; this involved installing a deep steel belt around the hull tied by diagonal steel members passing through the hold to a new steel-reinforced keel. Horizontal tubular steel struts passing through the hold brace the diagonals apart while many of the corroded original hull frames have been doubled.

A new steelwork lower deck of contemporary design incorporating an amphitheatre feature was installed in the main hold while a glass-encased lift installed within the ship terminates in a new steel-and-glass housing structure on the weather deck. A second new steel-and-glass box has been installed above the forehold to enclose a new staircase. Access to the ship is through a new opening cut through the hull below the waterline in the ship's starboard quarter. The new access hole has required the addition of new steel framing. Visitors arriving on board the ship now do so via this entrance, which leads to the lower hold. Maldwin Drummond, Chairman of the Cutty Sark Trust, has explained in ''Classic Boat'' magazine's September 2010 issue the need to retain the spirit of the ship and he quotes the ideal that "The visitor should see the ship as though for some unexplained reason the crew had gone ashore". Doubts over the wisdom of Grimshaw's proposals have been raised by many ship conservationists including the Cutty Sark Trust's own engineer Peter Mason.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7173900/Cutty-Sark-restoration-turning-into-a-fiasco.html|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7173900/Cutty-Sark-restoration-turning-into-a-fiasco.html|archive-date=12 January 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Cutty Sark restoration turning into a fiasco|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=6 February 2010|first=Andrew|last=Gilligan}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

[[File:Cutty Sark 2012 landscaping.JPG|thumb|right|''Cutty Sark'' in February 2012, repairs nearing completion. The temporary cover which surrounded the ship during repair has been removed although workmen can still be seen on deck and in the rigging where not all yards have been replaced. Work was underway around the dock to lay new paving.]]
The project was costed at £25 million when it commenced in 2006 with £11.75 million of this total being provided by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.rbxheocunmwyxdyg&pageId=2369|title=Press & Publicity> 23 Sept 06 Heritage Lottery Fund backs Cutty Sark scheme with an £11.75m grant|website=Cutty Sark|access-date=5 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724132335/http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.rbxheocunmwyxdyg&pageId=2369|archive-date=24 July 2009}}</ref>

Oscar-winning film producer [[Jerry Bruckheimer]] aided in the repair and restoration of ''Cutty Sark''. A collection of photos taken by Bruckheimer went on display in London in November 2007 to help raise money for the Cutty Sark Conservation Project. The exhibition featured more than thirty pictures taken on set during the filming of ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.rbxheocunmwyxdyg&pageId=146682|title=Press & Publicity > 23 November 2007 Cutty Sark's Hollywood photo exhibition|website=Cutty Sark|access-date=29 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724132709/http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.rbxheocunmwyxdyg&pageId=146682|archive-date=24 July 2009}}</ref>

In January 2008, the [[Heritage Lottery Fund]] awarded the Cutty Sark Trust another £10 million towards the restoration of the ship, meaning that the Trust had now achieved £30 million of the £35 million needed for the completion of the project. In June 2008, Israeli shipping magnate [[Sammy Ofer]] donated the outstanding £3.3 million needed to fully restore the ship{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} although by January 2009 the ''London Evening Standard'' reported that the cost had risen further to £40 million creating a new shortfall.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23615647-cost-of-saving-cutty-sark-soars-to-40m-as-rust-eats-into-hull.do|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505151351/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23615647-cost-of-saving-cutty-sark-soars-to-40m-as-rust-eats-into-hull.do|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2013|title=Cost of Saving Cutty Sark soars to £40m as rust eats into hull|first=Robert|last=Mendick|newspaper=[[Evening Standard]]|location=London|date=9 January 2009}}</ref>

In February 2010, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported the project cost had risen to £46 million with public money now being made available by London Borough of Greenwich to fill the funding gap.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/news/7158084/Cutty-Sark-to-be-restored-in-time-for-London-2012-Olympics-after-devastating-blaze.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010180621/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/news/7158084/Cutty-Sark-to-be-restored-in-time-for-London-2012-Olympics-after-devastating-blaze.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 October 2010|title=Cutty Sark to be restored in time for London 2012 Olympics after devastating blaze|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=5 February 2010|first=Heidi|last=Blake}}</ref>