{"id":11530,"date":"2010-06-09T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=11530"},"modified":"2010-06-10T00:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:50:40","slug":"cornubia-an-original-pilot-cutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/cornubia-an-original-pilot-cutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornubia &#8211; An Original Pilot Cutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Cornubia-100.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cornubia-100.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cornubia-100.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a rare treat, a 99 year old English pilot cutter, now lovingly restored as a yacht. We noticed <em>Cornubia<\/em> when we were walking the docks in Plymouth. Over the years we have seen many designs that claimed to be based on the pilot cutter concept but most had concessions to the world of yachting. So when we found out this was the real deal we looked a lot closer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Cornubia-110.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cornubia-110.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cornubia-110.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take the retractable bowsprit. Thought these started with J-Boats or Sundeers? Think again. They have been around for hundreds of years, as have been short overhangs.<\/p>\n<p>Piot cutters stood offshore in fair weather and foul, and a fast turn of speed was critical to gainful employment. So you can imagine our excitement when we noticed <em>Cornubia<\/em> had been hauled out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Cornubia200-119.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cornubia200-119.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cornubia200-119.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a high res slide show of her hull shape and rigging details. If you want to enjoy a fascinating slice of work boat history watch the slide show below.<\/p>\n<p>[slidepress gallery=&#8217;cornubia&#8217;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a rare treat, a 99 year old English pilot cutter, now lovingly restored as a yacht. We noticed <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/cornubia-an-original-pilot-cutter\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}