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    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...
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    specialist Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter. According to records from Pill, Somerset now housed in the Bristol Museum, the first official Bristol Channel pilot was...
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    specialised style of sailing boat, the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, developed in the area. P & A Campbell, based in Bristol, was the main operator of pleasure...
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  • The Bristol Channel Cutter, also called the Bristol Channel Cutter 28, is an American sailboat that was designed by Lyle Hess as a "character boat" cruiser...
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    with other sail plans, as with the Friendship Sloop, : 48-53  which is a cutter. The name originates from the Dutch sloep, which is related to the Old English...
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    Sailboat (section Cutter)
    configuration of masts, and sail plan. Popular monohull designs include: The cutter is similar to a sloop with a single mast and mainsail, but generally carries...
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    print, it is incorrect to refer to this rig by the modern malaprop of a cutter ketch. In New England in the 1600s, the ketch was a small coastal working...
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    Lashed lug Razee Sewn Tall ship Treenailed ULDB Other types Bristol Channel pilot cutter Floating restaurant Fusta Mersey flat Norfolk punt Norfolk wherry...
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  • Design based on the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, was built for the Island Trust. The company also maintains the boats for the Bristol Ferry Boat Company...
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    Calcutta and the sea.: 11  Eighteen Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters are believed to survive worldwide German pilot schooner, Elbe, No. 5 was launched in...
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    the keel slightly aft, or having two jibs to counter the effect. The gaff-cutter is in fact a very popular sailplan for small craft.[citation needed] The...
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    Harbour work craft Cable layers Tugboats, dredgers, salvage vessels, tenders, pilot boats. Floating dry docks, crane vessels, lighterships. Dry cargo ships...
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    their perishable cargoes on routes such as the Azores to Britain. Some pilot boats adopted the rig. The fishing vessels that worked the Grand Banks of...
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    all the unrated combat vessels, including the very small gun-brigs and cutters. In technical terms, even the more specialised bomb vessels and fireships...
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    been making fast vessels both for smugglers and the government revenue cutters, turned their skills again to yachts. The fast yachts of the early 19th...
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    first-rates were restricted to summer cruising, and then only in the English Channel and nearby waters. By the mid-1700s, however, improved design had removed...
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    ISBN 0710612664. Retrieved January 27, 2016. Husick, Charles B. (2009). Chapman Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc....
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    new steamships in tense Anglo-French relations, describing the English Channel as a "steam bridge", rather than a barrier to French invasion. It was partly...
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    rigs include: Rigs with one mast: the proa, the catboat, the sloop, the cutter Rigs with two masts: the ketch, the yawl Rigs with two or more masts: the...
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    At first, fast sailing vessels were referred to as "Virginia-built" or "pilot-boat model", with the name "Baltimore-built" appearing during the War of...
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