Ed Cutts Designer, Boatbuilder, and "Cutts Method" Inventor
This narrative biography is of Edmund Cutts who learned to design beautiful yachts from famous designer L. Francis Herreshoff. After building boats on Long Island, NY, he worked at his Cutts & Case shipyard in Oxford, MD. He drew yachts, without using a computer, and carved half-hull models for measurements, like the great classic designers. Readers will learn how he designed and built boats, and then took boats into the future with his "Cutts Method," to produce boats that were lighter, stronger and fast. He said boats should last 100 years or more.He faced early career challenges in his extraordinary and successful life. His one-of-a-kind life story had to be told. This book is not only for boaters, but for people who love boats of all kinds. Included is information on early transatlantic steamers, U.S. work boats, and Baltimore-type privateers that helped defeat the British navy during the war of 1812.