Versatile Performance or Family Day Sailer!
Click image for our Core Sound 17
page
Image © Graham Byrnes, see B&B Yacht Designs for more
pictures.
The Core Sounds and Lapwing are a family of small sail
boats that are very high performing craft with outstanding
speed potential. All of them are true Planing craft capable
of hitting speeds in the double digit Knot range.
I have had my CS 20 up on plane hitting speeds of 7 knts in
as little as 8 MPH wind with three adult males on board
when flying full sail to include Mizzen Staysail on a Beam
Reach. I have seen 12 knts as well with full sail up in
about 20 knts of wind.
The series are split personality boats . Sedate and calm
performers in light airs that give up little very light
airs to super slippery hulls and can even surpass them in
very light airs with the staysail up (passinig other boats
with staysail up has been known to induce sail envy among
other sailors). They are also calm boats if you reef down
in heavy airs.
But they are also planing craft that delight those with a
need for speed. My son and I were out one day with high
winds and three foot chop in a local lake. We decided to
reef down to first reef to go a bit slower as waves and
wind were conspiring to get us rather wet.
We we reefed and close hauled as much as we could pointing
through 90 degrees per GPS and were planning upwind at 7
knts.

Click images for our Core Sound 15
or Core Sound 20 pages.
The Core Sound 15 (left) and Core Sound 20
Images © Graham Byrnes, see
B&B Yacht Designs for more
pictures.
The Lapwing 16
I think of the Lapwing as a Core Sound prettied up in glued
lapstrake. A fellow builder at the Small Reach Regatta was
asked what she thought the best and worse thing about the
Core Sounds were. She loves it's sailing attributes but
felt the worse was they weren't quite as pretty as more
traditional designs. As you can see in the photo below, the
Lapwing addresses this concern well. Click through to our
Lapwing 16 page for
more on this beautiful design.
Click image for our Lapwing 16
page
Image © Graham Byrnes, see B&B Yacht Designs for more
pictures.
With three different sized Core Sounds and the 16 foot
Lapwing glued lapstrake version of the hull form, the
hardest thing you have to do is pick which one you want to
have me build for you. Visit our pages on the Core Sound 15, Core Sound 17, Core Sound 20 and the
Lapwing to begin
making your choice!
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