Cutting Loose is an American documentary film from James Lipscomb about five teenagers sailing from California to Singapore starting in 1971.
Lipscomb had made Blue Water, White Death (1971) for Cinema Center Films which agreed to finance Cutting Loose for $700,000. The film was shot and edited over a year.
The film was described by Los Angeles Times as "big, exciting, personal and in its way inspiring." However it struggled to find a distributor and was never released theatrically. Lipscomb adapted the story into a book which was published in 1974.