Talk:Cutter (boat)

message: With the exception of some of the largest Coast Guard cutters, and arguably, not even them, a cutter is a boat, not a ship.  I suggest moving the article to Cutter (boat). Please comment if you have any objections. (Woland (talk) 19:49, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically you are right - ship was obviously the inexperienced proposal of the wrist-slasher below. By all means go ahead, but bear in mind you have about 300 redirects to sort out! Motmit (talk) 20:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ship?

message: I haven't a copy of the reference in the text so I can't check to see how we have come by the rather misleading information in the article. I include below, what I propose as an improvement. (RJP 20:55, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this OK?

message: Renamed section from revenue as historically revenue refers to direct taxes whereas customs and excise are indirect.
I have also removed references to "The Revenue" since as far as I know and can find the UK Customs service has never been known as "The Revenue"; indeed "The Revenue" would refer to the Inland Revenue who have been recently merged with HM Customs and Excise to form HM Revenue and Customs.
Alistairbell (talk) 19:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Customs services

message: Cutters in the modern Coast Guard are fast, lightly-armed and frequently used in patrol work.
In the U.S. Coast Guard, a "cutter" is any Coast Guard vessel, with a permanently assigned crew and accommodations for the extended support of that crew. See chapter 10 USCG Regulations (Cutters are traditionally 65 ft. or greater in length). Larger cutters, over 180 feet (55 m) in length, are under control of area commands (Atlantic area or Pacific area). Cutters at or under 180 feet in length come under control of district commands. Cutters usually have a motor surf boat and/or a rigid hull inflatable boat on board. Polar Class icebreakers also carry an Arctic survey boat (ASB) and landing craft.
:By USCG Regulations, ALL "cutters" are 65 feet in length or greater, whether or not they have permanently assigned crew and accommodations for the extended support of that crew; The United States Coast Guard is unique in this tradition, whereas litterally anywhere else such a large vsl would be desiganted something else.
:From the Coast Guard's website: Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service , as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as cutters.  The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail." Since that time, no matter what the vessel type, the service has referred to its largest vessels as cutters (today a cutter is any Coast Guard vessel over 65-feet in length). 65.100.56.249 (talk) 04:59, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: US Coastguard

message: I think the second picture, shown on discussion page, is inappropriate in that for it to even look like a cutter you need to "forget the mizzen" and therefore it is not a cutter, and should not be on this page.
Rico 00:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The word kútter is used in Iceland and the Faeroe Islands for what on English WP is known as a smack (ship). These were typically English-built fishing ships with a mainmast and a mizzen that were bought by fisheries in these countries in the 1890s when they were already old in England and sold for a quarter of the price of a new ship. They were used as fishing ships in Iceland until the 1920s and longer in the Faeroes. Example: William Boyce built in Yarmouth in 1878, bought to Iceland in 1898 and named Haraldur (a well-known Icelandic song, Kútter Haraldur, is from the 1930s), then in 1901 given the name Hákon, stranded near Grindavík in 1926. Another example is the Faeroese Westward Ho built in Grimsby in 1884. This boat is called a slupp in Faeroese but usually called a kútter in Icelandic.  --Akigka (talk) 12:02, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: I think a search for "cutter" should redirect to self injury. Almost 100% of the use of the word "cutter" refers to the wrist slitter's concept. Then this page should be moved to "cutter (ship)". If nobody is willing to argue it I think I'll go ahead and change it and see how it works out. Randy6767 00:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Very bad idea. “Cutter�? meaning “self-hurter�? is a colloquialism, whereas “cutter�? meaning an ocean-going vsl is a specific technical term. A disambiguation page, however, would be helpful. 65.100.56.249 (talk)A REDDSON  —Preceding undated comment added 05:02, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  self injury 

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message: The lead was terribily tortured because it half-way looked like a MOS:DAB.  Lists items with paragraphs of prose are very poor style.  As well, there was an over emphasis on the Coast Guard definition of a cutter which in fact is no definition at all. They call everything a cutter, that's just ignorance.  Let's show some respect to the hundreds of years of naval heritage which has always defined a cutter as: small with speed over capacity.  I added to substantive cites to support "speed over capacity."  Interestingly enough this also covers a harbor official's boat, a Coast Guard boat and a support vessel.  --Hutcher (talk) 03:13, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead