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A gaff cutter, Kleine Freiheit, with a genoa jib set USCGC Legare, an example of a US Coast Guard cutter 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 ...
A Bristol Channel pilot cutter is a type of sailing boat used until the early part of the 20th century to deliver and collect pilots to and from merchant vessels using ports in the Bristol Channel. Each pilot worked individually, in competition with other pilots. Especially after 1861, the level of competition required larger and faster cutters ...
The Bristol Channel Cutter is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a cutter rig, a spooned plumb stem, an angled transom, a keel and transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel. It displaces 14,000 lb (6,350 kg) and carries 4,600 lb (2,087 kg) of lead ballast.
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)
USCGC. Eagle. (WIX-327) USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly Horst Wessel and also known as Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution which is ...
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.
Tally Ho. Tally Ho is a gaff-rigged cutter yacht designed by the artist and yacht designer Albert Strange. [1][3] The 48-foot (15 m) yacht was built at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex in England and has previously carried the names Betty, Alciope, and Escape. By 2017 she had nearly rotted away, and was in danger of being scrapped.
The Medium Endurance Cutter or WMEC is a type of United States Coast Guard Cutter mainly consisting of the 270-foot (82 m) Famous - and 210-foot (64 m) Reliance -class cutters. These larger cutters are under control of Area Commands (Atlantic Area or Pacific Area). [1] These cutters have adequate accommodations for crew to live on board [1] and ...