What kind of a boat is a "cutter with underwater wings"? Can you find picture of one?

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What kind of a boat is a "cutter with underwater wings"? Can you find picture of one?

Answer 1

I was going to guess America's Cup like Sailcat6... but he did a fine job.

Answer 2

Sounds like you mean a hydrofoil..

Try wikipedia..

Answer 3

Don't know.  But a cutter is a particular sail rig.  Powerful and easily handled and great for cruising.  The name has been applied to changing forms across time (different in square rig days from modern), but the modern rig embodies it.  A cutter has a mainsail, with a staysail in front of it (either on a boom or "club" or not), and an outer foresail ( jib) beyond that, flying from the stem or from a bowsprit - as distinct from a sloop which has also changed over time but carries a mainsail and single foresail.    A cutter has to have a long enough spread of sail support to carry the two foresails,  but a sloop can be quite small.   The "underwater wings" could refer to a particular modern hull form in which the keel (a fin) has side-wings on its foot, designed to help the boat go to windward etc  Like everything, nothing's new, in fact.   So when naval vessels became motorized, particular smaller vessels performing similar roles to the old cutters were also called "cutters" - usually tenders.   The sloop became the larger fast fighting ship (below a frigate or destroyer), and the most popular yacht form for speed and close sailing.    You'd find pictures of them all in any good book on naval architecture or yachting - or maybe even on the I/net.

Answer 4

Tucumcari (PGH-2) was a Boeing-built hydrofoil. Named after Tucumcari, New Mexico, it was the basis for the technology used in the subsequent Pegasus-class patrol boats and the Jetfoil ferries. Patrol boats are typically called "Cutters", like a Coast Guard Cutter. Its unique feature was a waterjet propulsion and a computer-controlled fully submerged foil configuration of one foil at the bow and foils on the port and starboard sides. The Tucumcari was one of two prototype boats contracted by the Navy for the purpose of evaluating the latest hydrofoil technology. The second boat was the rival Grumman built USS Flagstaff (PGH-1).

Go to this site and check out the picture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tucumca...

Answer 5

Hi Zelda:

This kind of combination is strange. A cutter is a sailboat with only one mast but with two head sails. A sloop has only one head sail. The cutter sailboats are very common before the 60's. Starting in the late 60's a revolution of mass production  fiberglass boat standardize the use of sloop sail plans and deep keel separate from the rudder.  The underwater wings are a "wings", similar to the ones on a plane, on the botton of the keel. This allow a shallow deep keel without affecting the center of gravity. The wing keel appears  in the America's Cup when the Australian use this fixture for the first time (I believe in 1983) to beat the American boats and crews. Wing keels are common in some production boats like the American Hunter boats but they are in general sloops. I believe the combination of a winged keel and a cutter sail plan can be use by some maxis or ultra lights boats in the offshore competitions, but I have my doubts because they use other types of keels like multiple keels, tandems and ballast type fixtures. I will check in my sail magazines for this type of boat.

If you want photos of cutter sailboats my recommendation  is Goggle Images.

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Answer 6

Shabara wins...he beat me to it.

Very common boat nowadays.

Cutter= 2 headsails

Underwater Wings= Wing Keel

Nicely done if not a bot wordy.