Flying solo lately, young Thompson takes issue with such prominent elders in the value realm as James Gipson of ClipperFund and Mason Hawkins of Longleaf Partners.
The Cutty Sark Trust, which received funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Heritage Lottery Fund, as well as donations from the public, aims to present the tea clipper as it would have looked when it was launched in 1872.