The Core Sound and Lapwing Series

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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