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It can be a gaff-rigged cutter, but one wouldn't say gaff-rigged sloop cutter I think?
I don't think one would as it'd be something of a tautology, a cutter being a sloop with multiple headsails, so the word sloop would be rather redundant. It'd be like calling it a gaff-rigged cutter boat - the word boat adds nothing.
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I did a bit of sailing recently, having almost no prior experience. I asked the skipper to explain yacht classification to me and it got real confusing, but I wasn't sure if it was because the nomenclature is inconsistent or because he was inconsistent. Or indeed both.
It can be a gaff-rigged cutter, but one wouldn't say gaff-rigged sloop cutter I think?