Cutts & Case Shipyard

Boatyard that specializes in repairs, restorations, design and building of fine pleasure yachts. Located in Oxford, Maryland. U.S.A.

History

Cutts & Case, Inc. was formed by Edmund A. Cutts Sr. and John Case. Cutts, native of Long Island, New York, was an acclaimed yacht designer, custom boatbuilder, author and Navy partnered with John Case (lawyer and sleeping partner) in the mid 1960's.^[1]

The business was formerly "Wiley's Shipyard", which was formed and owned by Ralph H. Wiley about 1928. Cutts and Case bought the ship yard in 1966 and kept Wiley an office as an consultant.^[2]

The shipyard contains 46 deepwater slips on and situated on Town Creek.

Cutts worked in several yards in the capacities of designer, loftsman and boatbuilder. He also began writing for Rudder magazine in 1963 and soon after started his own company designing and building boats in Locust Valley, New York He eventually bought a shipyard in Oxford in partnership with John M. Case, forming Cutts & Case. Mr. Cutts died Nov. 11,2011 at the age of 82.^[3]

1. ^ Mudlark's Ghosts By Ian Scott. C. 2006 p.81.
2. ^ Yachting, Volume 119 . Yachting Pub. Corp., 1966
3. ^ http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/component/content/article/15-general/501522-news-briefs