[3] The design is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of hand-laid solid fiberglass with polyester resin, with wood trim.
It has a spooned plumb stem, an angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller, a wooden bowsprit, a V-shaped boomkin and a fixed long keel.
[1][2] The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo MD 7 diesel engine of 13 hp (10 kW) for docking and maneuvering.
Cabin headroom is 75 in (190 cm) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 40 U.S. gallons (150 L; 33 imp gal).
[2] The boat is supported by an active class club, the Aquarius Pilot Cutters Owners Group.
[4] In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "this is a compact character boat conceived in the 1970s, but designed to look like something from the 1920s or 1930s, and having the same general characteristics: heavy scantlings, lots of bronze hardware ... and tanbark sails ...