Edmund Cutts

Edmund A. Cutts, Sr. died on Veteran’s Day, November 11th, 2009. Born on January 1, 1927, in New York, he was great Dad and loving husband to his late, wife Marguerite Cutts. He was 82 and working on his 83rd year. After parochial and public school, he enrolled in a Brooklyn Navy Yard Apprentice program through the New York Maritime School when he was 16. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy before his eighteenth birthday and was assigned to Aircorp Technical School in Norman, OK, then to the Pacific until he was honorably discharged. He began to study yacht design and construction under the personal guidance of L. Francis Herreshoff while managing Business Service Bureau (a printing business) in New York. He was acquainted with Mr. Herreshoff for over twenty five years. He went back to working in the yards such as H.B. Nevins where he was a Loftsman with Mr. Nils Halverson. He worked in several other yards in the capacities of Designer, Loftsman and Boat Builder. In order to meet the increasing needs of his growing family he took work with Grumman Aircraft in their Bethpage, NY engineering plant. While here he developed and prototyped many parts in the steering nozzles used in the first moon landing vehicle, and worked regularly within the confines of the Grumman “Skunk Works”. He began writing for “Rudder” magazine in 1963 and soon after began his own company designing and building boats in Locust Valley, N.Y., and eventually in Oxford, Maryland at a shipyard he bought, in partnership with John M. Case forming Cutts and Case, Inc. In his years he was involved with the designing and building of approximately 80 vessels ranging from Navel ships to rowing craft. He holds patents in fluid moving systems, external combustion engines, sail handling equipment and hull construction techniques. He was an enthusiastic Bible student who consistently shared the Word of our Lord, an aircraft pilot, avid motorcycle collector and high speed rider, boat owner and boatyard operator. He held membership in his beloved New York Yacht Club and the Classic Yacht Club of America. His life long vocation of yacht design engineering and Boat Building culminated in his Cutts and Case boatyard, described by many to be an American Nautical Treasure. He was an institution within his industry. He is survived by his three children Edmund A. Cutts, Jr. of Oxford, MD., Linda C. Featherman, of Clarksville, MD., Ronnie Cutts of Oxford, MD. And close friend Dennis Risher of Trappe, MD. who he considered one of his own, five grandchildren, L. Ashley Featherman, Ryan A. Featherman, Sarah Barclay Cutts, Charlotte Trippe Cutts, Sophie LaMotte Cutts. He was an amazing husband, father and friend, and a regular good man. His home was always open to anyone in need. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marguerite M. Cutts and a sister, Adelaide Cutts Durstewitz. Friends may call at Fellows, Helfenbein & Newnam Funeral Home, PA, in Easton, MD on Friday, November 20, 2009 from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. A Graveside Service will be held on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, MD. Memorial Contributions may be made to the Talbot Hospice Foundation, 586 Cynwood Drive, Easton, MD 21601, or to the Oxford Fire Company’s Ambulance Fund, 300 Oxford Road, Oxford, MD 21654. Please share your memories, musings, and humorous anecdotes of Ed with the Cutts Family by e-mailing them to "edcuttsstories@gmail.com"

Edmund Cutts

January 1, 1927 - November 11, 2009