Ship Falls of Clyde 1878 |
Ships graceful as Falls of Clyde have lit up and awakened the hearts and spirits of people through the ages. Even a layman can see the fine lines in Falls of Clyde’s hull – a grace and power in each riveted strake. What fortunate people we are to have one of the most beautiful things on this planet to champion, a beautiful medium clipper square-rigger. The great author and recorder of the Sea, Joseph Conrad, was master of a ship much smaller but just as graceful as Falls of Clyde, and best summed up his feelings about her and captured my love of Falls of Clyde in a single line: “It is good to be in a world in which she has her being”. Let’s all work to keep her in our world. I am very honored to have been asked to join the endeavor, as a consultant, to return Falls of Clyde to the river of her birth…the Clyde and restore her to sailing trim. She is worth all our efforts. |
Falls of Clyde National Historic Landmark Study |