{"id":3726,"date":"2020-05-28T13:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2020-05-28T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T03:30:23","slug":"captain-woodget-and-his-collie-dogs-on-the-cutty-sark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/news\/captain-woodget-and-his-collie-dogs-on-the-cutty-sark\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Woodget and his Collie Dogs on the Cutty Sark"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today we have another blog post from one of our volunteer guides, Jill Grevatt. Jill helped develop and then played an integral part in our Trim Toddler Tale Time series (to be released very soon!). We hope you like her take on the very interesting Captain Woodget of the Cutty Sark.<\/em><\/p>\n From 1885 to 1995 Captain Woodget was ‘the best known and most successful commander’\u00b9 of the famous ship Cutty Sark, fastest tea and wool clipper of its time.<\/p>\n He was a fine captain; calm even in the roughest weather. In fact he loved wild weather! The crew liked him and trusted him completely; they jumped as soon as he gave an order. He sailed the ship fast and safe. There were very rough seas at times, and in his ship’s log on June 28, 1891 he wrote that he and the helmsman had to be lashed to the wheel to save from being washed overboard in a storm.<\/p>\n The Cutty Sark sailed between London and Sydney in about 70 days bringing tea from China to Australia. The they waited for the last wool of the season to come from Australian farms to take it back to England. This meant that the midships deck was empty for a while. As a result, Captain Woodget and the apprentice sailors would try out the new sports of rollerskating and bicycling around the deck.<\/p>\n Captain Woodget was also a keen photographer; he took pictures of sailors, visitors, other ships, ports, and Cutty Sark herself. He followed the fastest and windiest route to Australia, sometimes going as far as 60\u00b0 South, not far from Antarctica! He photographed icebergs, and recorded seeing as many as 69 of them on one voyage.<\/p>\n