Mark Hensley

Hi Everyone that replied to my original post. Thank you for the replies and suggestions - what a great community of supporters! I wanted to apologize for not replying to you all at the time - life overtook for me for a variety of reasons this last six months and I just never got back to this forum. I am gearing up for a Lake Champlain multi-day trip in June so now am back at it. @Andy B - that is definitely my boat for which you found the 2022 ad. It really is nicely built and I'm glad to have it. @Reacher - thanks for the advice on centering the sheets. I found out the hard way about the problem you described and as this is the first boat I have had with this sheet setup it is not something I am used to doing. I am going to replace the sheets as they are a bit too short and I'm planning to add some sort of marker in the middle of the sheet as a reference for keeping it centered. @Don Silsbe - I like your suggestion for taping wood in the centerboard trunk - unfortunately - I did not see your suggestion until I had already fattened up the board with a few layers of fiberglass. Thanks all.

@Alan Stewart - thank you so much for the prompt and informative reply! Super helpful and exactly what I needed! I'll measure that gap now and add a some fiberglass if needed to tighten it up a bit. @Hirilonde - thanks for the reply as well. A couple of pictures attached from my sail. The red parachute chord on the port side of the centerboard trunk was my game day hack for not having a bungee chord. I was a bit nervous I would hit something so was conservative when approaching shallows.

Hi All, I'm new to this forum and the excited new 3rd owner of a Core Sound 17 Mk 1 that I believe was built circa 2015 (not sure hull # or where to find it). I'm a lifelong dinghy sailor but am new to the cat ketch rig and to the this design in particular. After buying the boat in Lake Placid a couple weekends ago, I took it for a first sail on Lake Champlain and really enjoyed it. Having never rigged a cat ketch before it took me a few hours to figure out how to rig it and while I'm sure I didn't have everything quite right, it was right enough to have a good sail. I do have two questions though related to the center board (apologies if there is a thread on these already and please feel free to point me to those). 1. The center board has two lines - an uphaul and a downhaul each with cleats. My boat appeared to be missing either a line or maybe what I'm surmising should be a bungee on the downhaul so that the board can kick up if you hit bottom. Is that correct and if so, would anyone have any details on the bungee length, set up they could share? 2. At one point in my sail, the wind died and we were getting rocked about in some waves. The centerboard was slapping/slamming back and forth in the trunk. Seemed to be about 3/8" - 1/2" of play between the board and the top of the trunk. It seemed like too much play to me and the slamming severe enough that in bigger chop it might stress the board pivot/trunk. Any advice on how to minimize that slamming and what if any maintenance/check up I should do on the centerboard pivot? Thanks in advance for any advice. Mark