 An American-looking gaff cutter with a genoa jib set
 This French yawl has a gaff topsail set. Forget the mizzen and this boat looks like a cutter. When applied to boats or ships, the name cutter is defined in three different ways. wooden sailing boat - (image Uwe Kils) GFDL - 70 year old gaff cutter - operation: Abenraa - Denmark File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
wooden sailing boat - (image Uwe Kils) GFDL - 70 year old gaff cutter - operation: Abenraa - Denmark File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links Mutin-cutter. ...
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- is concerned with the sailing rig
- is concerned with the work for which the boat is useful and the way its oars are arranged
- has to do with the organization owning the boat or ship.
Cutter is also a slang term attributed to self-harm Self-harm (SH) is deliberate injury to ones own body. ...
Sailing
Traditionally the sloop rig was a rig with a single mast located forward of 50% of the length of the sailplan. In this traditional definition a sloop could have multiple jibs. Cutters had a rig with a single mast located 50% of the length of the sailplan or further aft, multiple headsails and reefing bowsprit. Somewhere in the 1950's or 1960's there was a shift in these definitions such that a sloop only flew one headsail and a cutter had multiple headsails and mast position became irrelevant.
In this modern idiom, then, a cutter is a sailing vessel with more than one head sail and one mast. In a traditional vessel there would normally be also, a bowsprit to carry the topmast forestay with the jib hanked to it. (The sloop carries only one head sail, properly called a foresail though nowadays usually called a jib.) Correctly speaking, a jib is set on the topmast forestay. Sailing at sunset Wooden sailing boat Sailing is the skillful art of controlling the motion of a sailing ship or smaller boat, across a body of water. ...
The head sail is the sail in front of the mast to the bow. ...
mizzen mast, mainmast and foremast Grand Turk The mast of a sailing ship is a tall vertical pole which supports the sails. ...
Bowsprit of the Falls of Clyde, showing the dolphin striker, the use of chain for the bobstays, and three furled jibs. ...
A sloop-rigged J-24 sailboat In sailing, a sloop is a vessel with a Fore-and-aft rig. ...
The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, traditionally with a gaff mainsail, though not invariably so. The foot of the mainsail would normally be laced to a boom and the head to a gaff above which a gaff topsail would be set in suitable conditions. There would also be a foresail and jib and possibly a flying jib set above the jib.
Pulling A pulling cutter was a boat carried by sailing ships for work in fairly sheltered water in which load-carrying capacity was needed, for example in laying a kedge. This operation was the placing a relatively light anchor at a distance from the ship so as to be able to haul her off in its direction. The oars were double-banked. That is, there were two oarsmen on each thwart. In a seaway, the longboat was preferred to the cutter as the finer lines of the stern of the former meant that it was less likely to broach to in a following sea. In the Royal Navy the cutters were replaced by 25 and 32 foot motor cutters. However, the cutters' traditional work had grown beyond the capacity of a boat as ships became larger. Though primarily a pulling boat, this cutter could also be rigged for sailing. A longboat is a large boat powered by multiple oars and carried on a ship (especially sailed merchant ships). ...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services being the oldest of its three branches. ...
Concerning the use of a kedge, see also: The second USS Saratoga was a corvette in the United States Navy, named for the Battle of Saratoga. ...
The Sirius Class (1795) was established following the taking of the San Fiorenzo from the Spanish in 1794, upon whose lines this frigate was based. ...
Revenue Historically, a cutter is any seaworthy vessel used in law enforcement duties of Great Britain's Royal Customs Service, known less formally, as 'The Revenue'. The case is similar with the United States Department of the Treasury's Revenue Cutter Service and in the fleets of other countries. Particularly in America, they were commonly schooners or brigs. In Britain, they were usually rigged as defined under Sailing (above). The Revenue did use other vessels as hulks moored in such places as coastal creeks from which officers worked in boats. This is how HMS Beagle ended her days. The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department and the treasury of the United States government. ...
The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in 1790 as an armed maritime law enforcement service. ...
For other meanings, see cutter (baseball), cutter (tool) and self-harm. ...
Creek can be: A native American tribe, see Creek (people) The language of that tribe, see Creek language In US and Australian usage, a waterflow, smaller than a river, see Creek (stream) In UK usage, a tidal watercourse, usually drying to little or no flow at low tide, see Creek...
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee class 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy, named after the beagle, a breed of dog. ...
United States Coast Guard After a merger in 1915, the US Revenue Cutter Service became the United States Coast Guard. Cutters in the modern US Coast Guard are fast, lightly-armed and frequently used in patrol work. They are quite carefully defined as any Coast Guard vessel with a permanently assigned crew and accommodations for the extended support of that crew. See chapter 10 USCG Regulations These cutters are traditionally 65 ft. or greater in length. Larger cutters, over 180 feet (55 m) in length, are under control of area commands (Atlantic area or Pacific area). Cutters at or under 180 feet in length come under control of district commands. Cutters usually have a motor surf boat and/or a rigid hull inflatable boat on board. Polar Class icebreakers also carry an Arctic survey boat (ASB) and landing craft. Coast Guard shield The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a military branch of the United States involved in maritime law, mariner assistance and search and rescue, among other duties of any coast guard. ...
External links - U. S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
- Cutter Datasheets from USCG web site
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The word barc appears to have come from Celtic languages so that the form adopted by English, perhaps from Irish, was bark while that adopted by French , perhaps from Gaulish, was barge. ...
The word barc appears to have come from Celtic languages so that the form adopted by English, perhaps from Irish, was bark while that adopted by French , perhaps from Gaulish, was barge. ...
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In sailing, a bermuda rig is: A rig of mainsail or course that consists of a triangular sail set aft of the mast, with its head raised to the top of the mast, its luff running down the mast and normally attached to it for all its length, its tack...
A Bilander, also spelled billander or belandre, was a small European merchant ship with two masts, used in the Netherlands for coast and canal traffic and occasionally seen in the North Sea but more frequently to be seen in the Mediterranean Sea. ...
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The Santa Maria at anchor by Andries van Eertvelt, painted c. ...
It has been suggested that Catamaran History be merged into this article or section. ...
The occupied boats are catboats, but with a mast and boom rig A catboat (alternate spelling: cat boat), or a cat-rigged sailboat, is a sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward (, near the front of the boat). ...
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While the majority of the clipper ships sailed under British and American flags, more then a hundred clippers were built in the Netherlands. ...
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A Dhow near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. ...
A postcard showing the St. ...
A fluyt or a flute (pronounced as flight) is a type of sailing ship originally designed as a dedicated cargo vessel. ...
A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing rig consisting mainly of sails that are set along the line of the keel rather than perpendicular to it. ...
Frigate is a name which has been used for several distinct types of warships at different times. ...
A full rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a square rigged sailing vessel with three or more masts, all of them square rigged. ...
Gaff rig is a sailing rig in which the mainsail is a four-cornered fore-and-aft rigged sail controlled at its head by a spar called the gaff. ...
A Spanish galleon A galleon was a large, multi-decked sailing ship used primarily by the nations of Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries. ...
In sailing, a gunter is a wire that leads from one end of a gaff to the other. ...
A hermaphrodite brig, or brig-schooner, is a type of two-masted sailing ship which has square sails on the foremast combined with a schooner rig on the mainmast (triangular topsail over a gaff mainsail). ...
A four-masted junk. ...
Square Topsl Gaff Ketch Hawaiian Chieftain on San Francisco Bay A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: A main mast, and a mizzen mast abaft the main mast. ...
A Mersey flat is a two masted, doubled-ended barge with rounded bilges, carvel build and fully decked. ...
A multihull is a sailing ship with more than one hull. ...
The Santa Maria at anchor by Andries van Eertvelt, painted c. ...
The Norfolk wherry is a black-sailed trader, type of boat on the Norfolk Broads and Suffolk Broads, now part of The Broads National Park, in Norfolk, England. ...
There are two classifications of Pink. ...
A Pocket cruiser, Microcruiser or Pocket yacht is a small sailboat with a cabin, whose length is at or under 20 feet (6 m), with some examples as short as 10 to 12 feet (3 to 3. ...
A polacca is a type of seventeenth-century sailing vessel, similar to the xebec. ...
A pram or pramm was a ship, during the Napoleonic Wars that carried 10-20 guns on 1 gun deck. ...
A Proa is a two hulled vessel with unequal parallel hulls, superficially similar to an outrigger canoe. ...
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Ships of the line were 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ...
A sloop-rigged J-24 sailboat In sailing, a sloop is a vessel with a Fore-and-aft rig. ...
The Smack was a English sailing vessel that was used to bring the fish to Market for most of the 19th Century and even in small numbers up to the Second World War. ...
This article is about snow, the merchant vessel. ...
Main-mast of a square-rigged ship, with all square sails set except the course. ...
Kaskelot at the 2004 Bristol Harbour festival in England. ...
The distinctive sailing barges that were once a common sight on Londons River Thames, were commercial craft relying on sail power alone. ...
A trimaran is a multihull boat consisting of a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls (amas), attached to the main hull with lateral struts (akas). ...
A wherry (meaning boat) is a boat used for carrying cargo on rivers and canals in England. ...
A windjammer is a type of sailing ship with a large iron hull, usually used for cargo in the nineteenth century. ...
Windsurfing (also called boardsailing) is a sport involving travel over water on a small 2-4. ...
XEBEC is a subsidary of the anime studio Production I.G. that specialises in the production of television anime. ...
A modern yacht A yacht (From Dutch Jacht meaning hunt(er)) was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used to convey important persons. ...
Yawl sailing vessel. ...
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