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Hi Travis, I just responded on your other forum site but I will back it up here. I love your boat. She is beautiful and was such an inspiration to me when I started my boat project. I just completed my CS17 with and added skirt and cuddy. I love the way you have rigged the sprits so that when you have the sails dropped the sprit is still suspended. How did you rig that? I assume that you have some kind of halyard from the masts to the aft end of the sprit. I would love to do the same thing. I hate how everytime I drop the sails the sprits bang around on the cabin and in the cockpit. Once again I love your boat. Bob Clayton Alaska By the way I also built a motor well like the princess has and I love it.

Okay, that is not going to work either. It is late...let me try to figure this out and I will get the pictures right...later Thanks for your patience. Regards from Alaska, Bob Clayton First Attempt

Okay, I think I have figured out how to post a few photos...

Okay after three attempts to post a picture or two I need help. I will try again later... Bob First Attempt from Alaska

Hello All from Alaska again, Our "interesting boat" was super last Saturday under sail and.... under motor. Wow,wow,wow, Graham I just have to tell you again how unbelievable your CS hull is. I absolutely love it. We launched on Big Lake under blue skies with about a 6-8 knot wind. We got up on plane very easily and she was smooth on every point. I was so thrilled. She is very, very fast. I wish the winds would have been around 15 knots to really see what she could do, but maybe this weekend. We had three people in the boat plus this weekend we sailed with our new motor placed in the motor well. She was quick and smooth even with our motor mounted in the well, we tilt the motor so the prop is out of the water and the added sugar skirt I added really performed well giving us added waterline and extra buoyancy to offset the motor weight. For awhile with the sails down and the centerboard up we motored around near 8-10 knots at about 1/2 throttle. I wanted to get this report to those who might be interested. I will add pictures of the added skirt this week when I get a second. In answer to the question on the cabin lines, the lines of the cuddy/cabin are my design so you can't blame Graham for that, but he did help me work out some of the structure to make it lighter. The centered motor well works very well putting the prop in front of the rudder. I promise the get some pictures linked so those interested can see how I added the skirt and motor well and cabin. And yes the cabin has room for two to berth with sleeping bags, and just enough head room near the companionway to sit up (I'm 5'11")and get out of the rain. More later, Happy sailing. Bob Clayton Alaska First Attempt If I sound too excited please excuse the emotion. I am just so please with her performance and am I ever glad I chose to build a CS hull designed by Graham. I had so much fun messing around in the wind on Saturday...

Wow, great responses from so many, I have received several request for more pictures, so I will post some more pictures this weekend. Thanks all for your interest and kind comments on our interesting boat. This weekend we do some sailing on Big Lake with the motor in the motorwell. We'll see how she performs with the motor up in sailing position as well as under power. Will report this weekend. Thanks again to all. Bob Alaska First Attempt

Hello all from Alaska, I am the builder of the "interesting boat" in Graham's note and with his encouragement I am responding: I appreciate all of your comments and "guesses". I think some of you like what she looks like--we are pleased with her lines and when we launched her last Saturday we got a cheer from a crowd that gathered near the dock at Finger Lake in Alaska (Maybe they were just cheering that we got her out of the way so that others could launch ) Okay, (drum roll)...for the answer: she is a CS17 Hull #199. I extended the effective water line by adding a reverse transom skirt making the boat 20 foot long at the waterline. I added a cuddy based on Graham's EC22 and a motor well based on the Princess. I wanted a simpler rudder so I modified the rudder to a kickup blade hung in a rudder box and held in place with shock chords. I can lift the rudder blade when transporting, storing or when I want to motor or beach her. I do have oar locks. The mast are two piece: alumin lower with clear fur upper. I used sail tracks. Here in Alaska a motor is essential, so I added the motor well and centered it forward of the transom so that the motor weight would be better distributed. An added benefit is the props stay in the water and wash over the rudder if left in place when motoring. Now about the lifelines...the stanchions are 18 inches high and the line is a single 5/16" Sampson line (5200 lbs load) which floats. With waters hovering around 37 degrees lifelines are required for any serious sailing in blue water. Now about her performance, last week for our maiden voyage we had very light winds but she still performed very very well--very fast. Can't wait to take her out in 15 to 20 knot winds... Regards to you all, Bob Clayton "Alaska First Attempt" Oh...by the way I started construction in June 2008. Thanks to Graham for all of his help and for the wonderful hull design.