Sage 17



Sage 17 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Jerry Montgomery as a daysailer and a pocket cruiser and first built in 2011.

Production
The design was built by Sage Marine in Golden, Colorado, United States beginning in 2011, and production ceased after being suspended in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design
Sage 17 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of carbon fiber, fiberglass with vinylester resin, with teak wood trim. The deck, coach house and transom have a balsa core.

The sailplan is a 7/8 fractional sloop with a single set of spreaders. The hull has a plumb stem, vertical transom, transom-hung kick-up rudder controlled by a tiller and an underbody with a shoal keel containing a centerboard.

Displacement is 1300 lb and carries 120 lb of ballast in the centerboard, with an additional 400 lb of ballast in the keel.

Sage 17 has a draft of 3.50 ft with the centerboard extended and 1.75 ft retracted, allowing beaching and simplifying transportation on a trailer.

The boat is normally fitted with a two horsepower outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.

The cabin has sleeping accommodation for two people with a double "V"-berth in the cabin. Interior seating is port and starboard just aft of the "V"-berth at the companionway. A head is located under the aft end of the "V"-berth.

The 98 sqft main was offered with one or two reef points. Multiple headsails were available: Roller reefing/furling headsail hardware was an option.
 * 54 sqft working jib
 * 65 sqft 'lapper'
 * 87 sqft genoa
 * 16 sqft storm jib.

Operational history
Sail magazine named the design one of its Best Boats of 2013, describing it as, "a pretty, seamanlike little thing that’s sure to draw admiring looks way out of proportion to its size."

In Sail magazine's 2013 review Kimball Livingston wrote, "It's easy to like this boat. Anyone looking for a pocket cruiser more or less like this little one should ask for a dance."