Editing Cutty Sark (section)

==Performance==
{{Quote box |title=Master's opinion |width=30% |quote=She was built for me. I superintended the building and fitting of her, and I never sailed a finer ship. At ten or twelve knots she did not disturb the water at all. Although she was a very sharp ship, just like a yacht, her spread of canvas was enormous, ... She was the fastest ship of her day, a grand ship, a ship that will last forever.|source=—Captain George Moodie{{sfn|Carr|1964|p=4}}}}
{{Quote box |title=A speck on the horizon |width=30% |quote=One day we sighted a vessel, a mere speck on the horizon, astern of us, and the way she came into view it was evident she was travelling much faster than ourselves. 'Bringing the wind up with her' was remarked on board, and that seemed the only feasible conclusion to arrive at and account for the manner in which she overhauled us. In a few hours she was alongside us, and proved to be the famous British clipper ''Cutty Sark'', one of the fastest ships afloat. She passed us going two feet to our one, and in a short time was hull down ahead of us. |source=—Wool clipper crewman, 1879<ref>[[Basil Lubbock|Lubbock, Basil]], ''China Clippers'', pp. 295–296, account of a fast wool clipper crewman First published 1903 Charles Protheroe "Life in the Mercantile Marine" page 45.</ref>}}

The maximum logged speed for ''Cutty Sark'' was {{convert|17.5|kn|lk=in}}. Her greatest recorded distance in noon to noon sights was {{convert|363|nmi|lk=in}} averaging {{convert|15|kn}}, although she recorded {{convert|2164|nmi}}<ref>{{citation|last=Carr|first=Frank G G, CBE, MA|author-link=Frank George Griffith Carr|title=Cutty Sark, last of the clippers|date=December 1964|orig-year=December 1954|publisher=The "Cutty Sark" Society|via=reprinted from Yachting World|page=4}}</ref> in six days, which given the weather over the whole period implied she had achieved over {{cvt|370|nmi}} some days.<ref>[[Basil Lubbock|Lubbock, Basil]], ''Cutty Sark'', p. 9</ref> By comparison, ''Thermopylae''{{'}}s best recorded 24-hour distance was {{cvt|358|nmi}}. On another occasion she recorded {{cvt|3457|nmi}} in 11 days.{{sfn|Carr|1964|p=4}} ''Cutty Sark'' was considered to have the edge in a heavier wind, and ''Thermopylae'' in a lighter wind.{{r|Lubbock|pages=155–157}}