Chespearl

This is the best-built and most complete 10-ft sailing dinghy we’ve ever seen. This boat was built by a very experienced builder who put a lifetime of boating experience into her features and construction. Fully rigged for sailing and rowing and includes many custom touches such as hand-carved spoon-bladed oars, three-piece mast (which stows completely within the boat), professionally made bag for the sailing rig and a storage cover. Boat is titled and comes with titled galvanized trailer. Everything in first-class condition. All proceeds of sale go to the Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, MD. $3,000.00

Boat has been sold.

Boat has been sold. I appreciate the kind comments. Great design! Brian

Lowering price to $10,500. Boat also comes with a Tacktick MicroCompass. Brian Forsyth (443) 804-6439 brforsyth@comcast.net

Boat is located in Solomons, MD.

2018 Core Sound 17 built to high standard from B&B kit. Two blue ribbons at 2018 Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival for best kit-built boat and winning the sailing race. Comes with 2HP Honda outboard motor, galvanized trailer, 3 sails in like new condition, full boat cover, custom camping tent, two piece composite oars, 5 kg Bruce style anchor, B&B masthead float. Clear MD titles for boat and trailer. Asking $12,000. Located in Solomons, MD More photos here Build thread here Brian Forsyth (443) 804-6439 brforsyth@comcast.net

2018 Core Sound 17 built to high standard from B&B kit. Two blue ribbons at 2018 Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival for best kit-built boat and winning the sailing race. Comes with 2HP Honda outboard motor, galvanized trailer, 3 sails in like new condition, full boat cover, custom camping tent, two piece composite oars, 5 kg Bruce style anchor, B&B masthead float. Clear MD titles for boat and trailer. Asking $12,000. More photos here Build thread here Brian Forsyth (443) 804-6439 brforsyth@comcast.net

Graham, Thank you for sharing your experience and doing the calculations. Your numbers tell me 10 kts may not be a reasonable expectation even with a 90-100 lb motor. Maybe life at 6-8 kts is just fine too. Borrowing some motors for testing is a good idea. If I come up with anything worth reporting I will share it on the forum. Brian

PadrePoint, Thank you. That is helpful information. I'd guess that my boat is a 300 lbs lighter than yours, even more if you had the rig and rudder installed for your test. So maybe 400 lbs lighter for the fishing configuration I'm considering if i'm by myself. Sounds like 5 hp won't get your boat above displacement speeds, but I still wonder if it would work for me. Anybody else have any experience with this?

I know this will seem heretical to some, but I use my CS17 at least part time as a motor skiff and fishing vessel, motoring it in the local river without the rig, using a Honda 2hp air-cooled motor. I'd like to find something faster and quieter. Has anyone put a larger, heavier motor on a rig-less CS17? 5 hp, 8 hp, 10 hp? My open transom CS17 is well-built to the plans. During the build I added some stout quarter knees in the corners under the side decks. I'd like to mount the larger motor on centerline, directly on the transom, no rudder, steering the outboard with a PVC pipe tiller extension. I know a 5 hp Honda weighs ~ 60 lbs. Would that give me 10 kts with two people, 3 gallons of gas and fishing gear? Any experience or lessons learned would be appreciated. I really don't want another boat just for fishing and I'm not looking for or expecting perfection, just something that works and is reasonably safe and stable @ 10 kts in typical river/bay conditions. Thanks, Brian

A friend of mine was observing the EC 2020 start and took these photos of one of the Cores Sounds that had a hard jibe shortly after launching. I know these plastic sail slugs can fail and that is certainly preferable to damaging some other parts of the rig. I don't currently carry spares but I'm going to get some. My understanding is that sufficient halyard tension takes most of the potential load off the sail slugs. Something to be mindful of in high winds when raising, lowering sails. Brian

That is a wonderful story Steve. After reading that Urban Dictionary definition, there's no way you couldn't change the name . Obviously meant to be. Cheers,

Thank you for the kind words Steve. I will certainly remember this year's MASCF. ARJAY not only won her class (ketch) but was first home of the 30-ish boats in the sailing race. Full disclosure: the race was a real light air drifter. My crew and I leaned her way over to leeward and got weight as far forward as we could. The way she ghosted along, one person said it looked like we had an underwater electric motor. This was my second time sailing the boat. Bob McMichael also won his class (lug rig) in his CS15. Kudos to Graham for designing such a sweet and versatile boat! Core Sounds rule!

Just want to add my two cents - Kudos to Graham, Alan and all the other folks who made this event happen. The ability to recover from a capsize was an important feature for me when I chose to build the CS17 design. I sincerely appreciate the event participants, the videos, the ongoing R&D (mast float), and the community discussion. I will be practice capsizing my boat in the near future. I am interested in purchasing plans for the masthead float when available. Brian

Here are a couple photos of Bob underway in MELLIMAC on the Shallow Water Sailors Spring Cruise. I was hoping to be sailing CS17 #191 ARJAY but I'm still working on the rigging so I was in my old no name Wayfarer again. Bob's boat sure looks sharp!