Cutty Sark wind. The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns's 1791 poem "Tam o' Shanter". The ship's figurehead, the original of which has been attributed to carver Fredrick Hellyer of Blackwall, is a stark white carving of a bare-breasted Nannie Dee with long black hair holding a grey horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was "cutty", or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing
Cutty Sark (whisky) organisations. In 2008, 2009, and 2011 for example, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition awarded the Cutty Sark blended scotch bronze and silver medals. The Beverage Testing Institute gave Cutty Sark modest scores of 85 and 87 in 2008 and 2011, respectively. Cutty Sark makes an appearance in many novels by Haruki Murakami, most notably "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle", "1Q84", and "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". It is a character's favourite drink in the 1978 novel "The Human Factor" by Graham Greene. Cutty Sark is one time favourite drink of Clive Cussler's hero Dirk Pitt and