Andy B

Here's a great looking CS-17 with a lot of extras at a great price, $5,500. You'll have to go to the desert to get her, but how often do you get a chance to take your first sail in Lake Tahoe? https://reno.craigslist.org/boa/d/gardnerville-core-sound-17-sailboat/7846547113.html

Thanks, Alan, that clears things up!

Thanks, Dave. Is there really that much room in a luff pocket? Lasers have sleeved sails, as does my Sea Pearl, and there's not that amount of looseness to make the sail look like picture "D". But maybe this is something different.

I hope I'm not hijacking this thread ... Is there anywhere a conversion chart for mast materials? What I mean is specifications for masts in aluminum, wood, or carbon fiber for each boat? I know the vast majority are aluminum per the plans, so I suspect not.

I haven't been there in years, but from memory the paper map the park produces is very detailed on things like that. Or you could try some other forums, or there is even a reddit page about the park that will have folks with first hand experience. Have a great trip!

I'm with Peter HK on the ranking: You can skip book two, Swallowdale. Very little sailing, lots of boring exposition. Jump right to We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea and then Peter Duck. These are great books, I've enjoyed reading them to my kids and thanks to SteveW one of my current boats is named Wildcat after a boat in the series. Edit to add: Steve, I did change the name to "Kitty", like they do in the movie, just to prevent the giggling from the boys every night when I was trying to read them to sleep! My favorite funny moment from the book is when the youngest makes an illustration in the ship's log, a page entirely full of black ink, to show what it looked like at sea at night.

this article should be linked in a post selling a boat, it convinced me to buy first a sea pearl and then a core sound: https://bandbyachtdesigns.com/blog/why-a-cat-ketch/

I forget your (salt) water doesn't freeze!

My two cents. It's still cold up north. It's hard to think about sailing yet. Most importantly, FB marketplace is local. You're limiting your market to those within a few hundred miles, at best. Consider Sailing Texas (not just for TX), classifies on this sight, wooden boat magazine, small craft advisor, small boats nation, and anything else you can find. Take out the comment about the dings--of course it has dings, it's an 8 year old boat. Don't undersell it. And what Tim said is true. Sadly these boats don't sell for what they should.

i'm not sure if this article will come through, it might be behind a paywall, but this author does that and his boats look great. https://smallcraftadvisor.substack.com/p/paint-and-varnish?utm_source=publication-search

Messabouts in the Mitten State! I am helping organize two small boat gatherings in Michigan. May 17 in Higgins Lake and September 5-7 in Muskegon. You can email me for information, or check out the "Dinghy Cruising the Americas" facebook page. Mark your calendars and make camp reservations now! blodgett.andy@gmail.com

i broke my hand last week. so instead of skiing i'm stuck in the rental binging EC content while it's 12 degrees out! thx for the updates and videos!

thanks for the updates and video and good luck!

Not a Core Sound, but a B&B Spindrift for sale. Brand new, $5,000. It's interesting that it's priced around where a lot of CS-17 boats are. https://sailingtexas.com/202401/spindrift9101.html

Paul, I can't remember the state of your boat build. Have you used the Spirit 1.0 for your CS-20.3? Does it push it along fine? If it does, it would certainly work for my 20.1, someday.