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Cutter (boat) A cutter is a name for various types of watercraft. It can apply to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used under sail or oars, or, historically, to a ...
Pinnace (ship's boat) As a ship's boat, the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender. The pinnace was usually rowed but could be rigged with a sail for use in favorable winds. A pinnace would ferry passengers and mail, communicate between vessels, scout ...
A cutter vessel is a small or medium-sized boat or sailing ship, built for speed and with a shallow draft. While some larger cutters had two or three masts, many cutters had only one, located more centrally on the ship than was typical of larger vessels. In modern times, any naval ship built for speed and agility is still referred to as a cutter.
United States Coast Guard Cutter. USCGC Harriet Lane, a Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC) United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the U.S. Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. They are 65 feet (19.8 m) or greater in length and have a permanently assigned crew with accommodations aboard. [1][2] They carry the ship prefix USCGC.
Sailboat. A typical monohull sloop with Bermuda rig. Sailboat on Lake Constance, Germany. A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat and ship vary by region and maritime culture.
175' Keeper-class coastal buoy tender (WLM) USCGC Joshua Appleby (WLM-556), a 175' USCG coastal buoy tender. USCGC Ida Lewis (WLM-551) USCGC Katherine Walker (WLM-552) USCGC Abbie Burgess (WLM-553) USCGC Marcus Hanna (WLM-554) USCGC James Rankin (WLM-555) USCGC Joshua Appleby (WLM-556) USCGC Frank Drew (WLM-557)
Barque. A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.
A sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. [ 1 ] Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. [ 2 ] A rig may be broadly categorized as "fore-and-aft", "square", or a combination of both. Within the fore-and-aft category there is a variety of triangular and quadrilateral sail shapes.