I"m not a sailor, but I ended up with a 1986 222 one owner boat. I don't know the language to sell or demo, any suggestions? Please be nice I am being serious and have no intentions of ever using or learning to sail. I just don't boat much.. How can I find out what it is worth? It's on a trailer.
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If it's a one owner O'Day 222, it must be in great shape. I'm also an original owner of a 1986 O'Day 222 and I wouldn't part with mine unless I had to.
These models are very much in demand right now and a lot of people are looking for them. One of the guys on this forum who lives in Racine Wisconsin sold his O'Day 222 to a guy in Texas about a month ago.
Where you are unfamiliar with this boat it may be wise to have a marine surveyor check it out and make a suggestion on asking price.
These boats only had one bad feature that I could find. Their rudder blades were prone to crack and eventually break. A company in Clearwater Florida manufactured all the rudder blades for the O'Day boats. They molded them in two halves, glued them together and pumped them with foam. I broke two of these blades and then I finally had a solid blade made up at D&R Marine http://www.drmarine.com/
back in the 1990s and haven't had a problem since. It's possible that the PO of your inherited boat ran into this problem and had a new blade installed on the boat and it's also possible that the blade is the stock blade that came with the boat and it's in good condition.
The original blades had a seam all the way around the blade where the two halves were glued together, and the new ones do not. This rudder blade issue was also prevalent on other O'Day sailboats like the O'Day 40 and the spade blades on the O'Day 32. I remember talking to a guy on this forum several years back who lived in Russia and owned an O'Day 32 with a delaminated spade rudder blade. He kept the boat in Helsinke and was commuting from Moscow to work on it every week.
Outside of that, if the boat is in great condition, you can get a good asking price for it especially if it's on a nice trailer. These boats have strong hard hulls and can take a complete roller trailer. Other brand sloops are constricted to flat bunk trailers.
Check out this site and find out what others are asking for this particular model.
http://www.sailingtexas.com/ Believe me,--people will travel across the country to look at this boat. Years ago I advertised my Sturdee Catboat on a site called "By The Sea" and a guy from Sandy Hook NJ sent me a check and came up to Taunton Ma with a trailer behind his van to pick it up. Good luck with the sale.
Joe
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