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I think it will be a really good reference when you have finished for anyone who wants to build the ship with maximum detail and I will look forward to your up-dates on progress. Who knows, I may build a "proper" model before time runs out! Sadly, the best I can hope for now is something that "looks like" the Cutty Sark, from a distance and without wearing my glasses!Yeah she sure did and all this and a lot more will be addressed.
I was the same as you, having known the ship my whole life and relying on those 2 sources but once I was involved in the restoration and got the hundreds of measures and the data from Greenwich both are riddled with errors.
The plans from the Cutty Sark are ok but the rigging was the main focus of the plans.
In saying that the mast lengths are not as built and if you look at pics and the plans things like the hawse hole is actually off by one frame and the line of the keelson and its extents is wrong but thats because Campbell did not have access to this info like we do. A large proportion is educated guessing, even the sheer is incorrect.
Longridges book re the hull is full of errors to actually largely because a lot is cases where something is "about 4 feet from" and not specific which really surprised me but unless you actually undertake this sort of project you would miss it. However he was the first to document the ship and although she was nota working clipper by that time its still full of info, mainly for rigging.
Good luck with the project.

