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There are plenty of cutter race boats out there
In Response To: If the cutter is such a high performance rig, why do you almost never see one on the race course? 
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() Pretty much all of them are designed for open ocean racing. The split fore triangle rig provides great flexibility and strength but is not good for short tacking around the bouys for the reasons mentioned above.
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- Tell me about the advantages of yankee cut jibs on a cutter rig.
- Our experience with cutters
- In heavy air and a wet seaway, the higher cut will tend to avoid catching a bunch of green water that might come at it.
- You won't be giving up sail area
- I think a Yankee is a great cut sail. It sets high
- Will your sheet leads move aft far enough?
- Gene, are you thinking about the staysail, the jib, or both?
- Yankee and stysl
- If the cutter is such a high performance rig, why do you almost never see one on the race course?
- Cutters race cutters
- Raced against a cutter years ago..
- There are plenty of cutter race boats out there
- Cutters race cutters
- If the cutter is such a high performance rig, why do you almost never see one on the race course?
- John Harries is a big fan of Yankees with a cutter rig
- Our experience with cutters