You are truly ignorant of all things nautical.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message ...
Take a sloop and add a second
head sail and it becomes a cutter.

Actually, it is still a sloop, though a twin-headsail sloop.

The definition of "cutter" has become more of "twin headsails" through common
usage but still to this day a cutter has a main mast placed aft of the main
mast of a sloop.

Hey einstein, your defintion suggests that any boat at port with no sails
rigged has no classification. You are the ignorant man.

By definition: "The cutter is a single-masted boat whose mast is stepped
almost near the center of the boat. Cutters often carry two relatively
small jibs rather than one big one."
-Annapolis Book of Seamanship

note the word "often"


"jlrogers" wrote in message
. ..
You are truly ignorant of all things nautical.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
Take a sloop and add a second
head sail and it becomes a cutter.

Actually, it is still a sloop, though a twin-headsail sloop.

The definition of "cutter" has become more of "twin headsails" through
common
usage but still to this day a cutter has a main mast placed aft of the
main
mast of a sloop.

If you have two foresails attached to two stays, it is not a sloop.


nope.

Must be a politician arguing his point. the definition being what ever
fits what they want it to be , but the standard dictionaries and
references point to another idea the standard thought.
Are you related to G. Weasel Bush?

JAXAshby wrote:

If you have two foresails attached to two stays, it is not a sloop.




nope.



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fine response, jl. ill-informed on your part to be sure, but nevertheless a
fine, fine response on your part.

now go back to study hall.

You are truly ignorant of all things nautical.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
Take a sloop and add a second
head sail and it becomes a cutter.

Actually, it is still a sloop, though a twin-headsail sloop.

The definition of "cutter" has become more of "twin headsails" through
common
usage but still to this day a cutter has a main mast placed aft of the main
mast of a sloop.

JAXAshby wrote:

fine response, jl. ill-informed on your part to be sure, but
nevertheless a fine, fine response on your part.

now go back to study hall.

You are truly ignorant of all things nautical.


Only, he is right. You are not
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If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?

horse hockey.

JAXAshby wrote:

fine response, jl. ill-informed on your part to be sure, but
nevertheless a fine, fine response on your part.

now go back to study hall.

You are truly ignorant of all things nautical.


Only, he is right. You are not
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If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?

no dummy, it is a sloop with twin head sails.

which is different from a cutter.

Give it up Pete, or wait 20 to 40 years before the cutters are defined as the
number of headsails, not by the main mast placement as they are now.

JAXAshby wrote:

If you have two foresails attached to two stays, it is not a sloop.


nope.

Right, it is not a sloop then
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