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Northshore October 2025
  In 1982, John Rogers’s brother gave him a gift: an exact replica of the Cutty Sark, the famously fast 19th-century clipper ship that dominated the tea trade. Don Rogers spent 18 months building his brother’s masterpiece, laying each plank by hand and fine-tuning the rigging across the masts. But John’s time with the ship was short-lived. “After I got it home from California, someone bumped into it and it broke into pieces,” says Rogers, who lives in Plymouth. He packed the broken ship into a box, where it remained for the next 30 years. Then, in 2014, Rogers wandered into Piel Craftsmen, a tiny
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