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First Sailboat
Jeff,
Thanks for the clarification, and I suppose you are correct with that definition. However, most Nauticat 33 owners with this configuration, an inner forestay - separate staysail/storm sail & self-tacking traveler - call this rig a cutter/ketch . . . although perhaps affectionately.
Why couldn''t an inner headsail of this layout be called a "cutter rig" if it exists on a ketch or a yawl? Can this term only be applied to a sloop with the mast at least 50% aft?
On another note, if you were to extend a pulpit with bobstay and connect a forestay to the mast head of your fractional rig, couldn''t you call it a cutter rig, even though the mast is forward of the mid deck point?
Steve
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