SHTANDART
caulked for three months...no shed, just tented,
through the Russian winter.”
Tied up alongside Trinity Landing, Cowes, with the
Royal Yacht Squadron sentinel behind, the prestigious
club’s officers and members attended the uniformed
reception co-hosted aboard by Vladimir and Maldwin
Drummond, former Chairman of the Cutty Sark
Trust, announcing the new project. With toasts made
and a reciprocal invitation to the Squadron’s castle
clubhouse for afternoon tea next day, it was time to
away, to a cannon salute from the platform...and we
fired back, with real 2m-long cannons! The original
Shtandart was armed with 28 cannons, each manned
by four crew. The replica has five.
Shtandart is Vladimir’s second self-build, the first a
70ft (22m) Baltic trader, and the Cutty Sark 2 will be his
third. He’s come a long way since racing windsurfers and
the snow sailing world championships.
“It’s important to develop yourself,” Vladimir says,
“and now I’ve been 16 years as Captain of Shtandart,
I’m the one in the way of the young guys coming
through. It’s time to hand over. You need to sow the
seeds, make people enthusiastic. With this you can domuch. Too many people say things are not possible.
But things are possible. They are!”
Shrouded in the amber glow of Poole quay’s street
lights, first mate [now captain] Dmitri Ryabchikov
brought us alongside a marina pontoon otherwise
monopolised by million pound plastic motorboats. To
describe our arrival as surreal wouldn’t have come close.
“Where from?” called a passer-by. “St Petersburg,”
Vladimir replied. He might have said another world.The guitar comes
out for some
songs of the seaCutty Sark 2 is a project to build a replica of the iconic Cutty Sark clipper, with a scheduled
completion date of 2019, the 150th anniversary of the original boat’s launch. The full-size replica will
trade commercially, as her 280ft (85m), three-masted namesake did in the 1800s, and will act as
an international sail training ship for all ages.
Vladimir Martus will lead the project. The materials and method of build of the Cutty Sark 2 will be
as they were for the original – composite construction, timber on forged iron frames. As with the
Shtandart, the team will be mostly unskilled volunteers.
Back in 1868, Cutty Sark was commissioned to be finished in six months at a cost of £17 per ton,
maximum weight 950 tons. She was late and compensation of £5 was paid for every day over, with
a final outlay of £16,150. Indications are Cutty Sark 2 will cost €28 million (c£20.4m) to complete.
Shtandart cost €1.8 million (c£1.3m), raised through crowd-sourcing. The Cutty Sark 2 Sail
Foundation has UK charitable status and fundraising has begun. The first phase of work is in the
naval architecture and discussions have begun with Dutch yard Dykstra Naval Architects.To volunteer or donate funds, visit cutty-sark.org and shtandart.euSHTANDART
LOA
113ft 2in
(34.5m)
LW L
79ft 3in
(24.2m)
BEAM
22ft 10in
(6.95m)
DRAUGHT
10ft 10in
(3.3m)
SAIL AREA
7,104sq ft
(660m^2 )THE CUTTY SARK 2