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Jan 24, 2005
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Oday 222 Dighton, Ma.
I am looking to buy an oday what do you guys think about the price on this one? any thing specfic to look for when buying an oday?

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/boa/2443029516.html
It's really hard to tell without seeing the boat close up and checking the rigging. Check the stays to make sure there isn't any broken strands in the cable. The stays on the older O'Day Daysailers were smaller that 1/8" and they no longer sell that gauge of wire. So if the stays have broken strands, you're going to have to have them replaced with 1/8" wire.
Check the centerboard trunk for any cracks. It's really hard to check a centerboard when the boat is on the trailer, so you really don't know if it's damaged and you'll have to take his word that it's OK and works properly unless you ask him to take you out for a sail to try the boat out.

Make sure that you get all the running rigging with this boat and look at the sails to make sure they are in working condition. New sails would cost as much as the asking price of the boat if you had to replace them.

If you're going to travel any distance with that trailer to get it home, make sure that there's grease in the wheel hubs. If the hubs have Bearing Buddies, so much the better. I would bring a grease gun with me just in case. In fact, I did just that years ago when I bought my Sturdee Cat boat up on the Cape and had to trailer it 30 miles to my home. The bearings were grinding and making noise and I had to stop every once in a while to lubricate them. The guy I bought the boat from couldn't have cared less about a prospective buyer getting stuck on the road with the trailer he had under that boat. I got my boat home but I had to replace the wheel bearings on the trailer. So you really need to try and cover all the bases if you can.
All I can tell you is just look it over good. Try to go over everything on that boat and if you know someone who is familiar with sailboats, ask him or her to come along and check it out with you. Two heads are always better than one.
Here's some pictures of my old Sturdee Cat boat. I never had an engine on it and I would sail that boat for miles. If the wind died I would just paddle it. In my state, a boat without an engine under 16' didn't have to be registered and I also owned my O'Day 222 which was registered so I opted to sail engine less. Now, if I can only figure out a way to drive to the club in my truck without paying $4.00 a gallon for gas!:cussing:

Good Luck!
Joe
 

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Sep 20, 2006
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Oday 20 Seneca Lake
i had a day sailor from the late 60s that i paid $300 for with a old trailer and no outboard. i paid $2500 for my 74 oday 20 with trailer, and honda 5 hp. seems like this price is kind of high for a 40 yr old boat.

i once flipped my daysailor with a sudden gust while in a calm. with no forward movement i could not steer up into the wind quick enough and it went over before i could release the main.

i was unable to roll it upright and keep it upright until the mast was taken down. my wife was very unhappy sitting on the hull of an overturned sailboat a half mile off shore in october until someone showed up to help, but that's another story.
 
Jan 24, 2005
4,881
Oday 222 Dighton, Ma.
i had a day sailor from the late 60s that i paid $300 for with a old trailer and no outboard. i paid $2500 for my 74 oday 20 with trailer, and honda 5 hp. seems like this price is kind of high for a 40 yr old boat.

i once flipped my daysailor with a sudden gust while in a calm. with no forward movement i could not steer up into the wind quick enough and it went over before i could release the main.

i was unable to roll it upright and keep it upright until the mast was taken down. my wife was very unhappy sitting on the hull of an overturned sailboat a half mile off shore in october until someone showed up to help, but that's another story.
I paid $2500 for that Catboat with the trailer and no outboard. The guy was asking $2700 for it back then. That convertable top came with it, plus a cockpit cover. It was a fun boat but it could be capsized if you weren't careful.
One winter about a week before Christmas, I put it in the lake next to my house and sailed it. There was a thin sheet of ice in some parts of the lake and I had my Origo Heat Pal stove placed in the bow of the boat and it was giving off enough heat to make it very warm and comfortable in that cockpit with the convertable top up. All I could hear was the hull crashing through the ice and I hoped that the wind would keep up so I could sail back to the ramp or I would have to use my paddle to get back.
 
Jun 2, 2004
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Oday Day Sailer Wareham, MA
Joe already mentioned the standing rigging, O'DAY originally used 3/32" wire, it should have been 1/8". D&R sells the upgraded rigging as a package, but any local rigger can make new for you.
From the pics the boat and motor look good, but I won't give a definite judgement just from pics (Craigslist pics are usually just fuzzy enough to hide things).
Condition of the maststep area, mine rotted out under the deck (boat must have been a Friday or Monday boat..... maststep did not line up with the support pipe below the cuddy deck, so cuddy deck (floor) had cracked, previous owner fixed, but.... it was a pretty big BANG when his repair let go while I was sailing! Joe mentioned the Centerboard, but I'd want to check the lines/cables that raise and lower the CB. I'd say that this boat is a 1974-6 range...... the mainsheet is mid-boom which was used on late 1974 models and later, mast appears to be gold-annodized, that was a mid-1970'd feature.
For comparison, I paid $1400 for my 1979 DS II in 1996 with a trailer. I needed to replace the self-bailer, the bilge drainplug, and one spreader (spent about $45 from D&R at the time). Trailer needed new axle, springs, hubs, bearings, wheels, and tires 2 years later (around $400) but I'm in Saltwater and previous owner did zilch about maintaining trailer.

The outboard price is not bad, if this is a freshwater outboard. 6hp is a little big for a DS II, I use a 4hp and could almost get away with 2hp.

PS: Joe, I like the dodger on the Sturdee Cat! I recognize that ramp too..... my Dad and I used it a few times while exploring the Taunton River with our 14' powerboat. Kind of a steep road to enter/exit though! Not to mention the road going by is one-way now.
 
Jan 24, 2005
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Oday 222 Dighton, Ma.
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PS: Joe, I like the dodger on the Sturdee Cat! I recognize that ramp too..... my Dad and I used it a few times while exploring the Taunton River with our 14' powerboat. Kind of a steep road to enter/exit though! Not to mention the road going by is one-way now. (Quote)

That dodger came with the boat, along with a back cover. It was a fun boat but it could never measure up to a sloop of that size.

That's the Somerset Waterfront Park ramp. My favorite cove on that river is right across from that park just to the right of the old railroad bridge abutments next to the golf course. If you see a sloop with polytarps and a green kayak anchored in that cove, that's me.
I trailered my O'Day 222 to that ramp for 8 years straight and years ago I sailed out of there to Cuttyhunk Island and Martha's Vineyard. I also sailed to Block Island from that ramp. I had my wife bring my car and trailer home each time. I always thought that they had the best ramp in the area. It could be used at any tide.
Billy Joel stores two of his boats at a marina near that park. I passed him on the river last summer as he was motoring toward the bay in his boat, "Vendetta." It's 57' long and the engines are noisy. I had my wife and twin granddaughters on board that day and we were headed back to the club.
Our club is just a short distance up the river from that park, close to Broad cove. http://www.shawometyachtclub.com/
 
May 17, 2011
76
Oday Daysailer II, Rhodes 19, Mariner 2+2 Dripping Springs
I have a 76 Daysailer II and like it very much. I bought mine 5 years ago for $1200. It had some damage on it that I had to repair, but the owner let me know about it before the purchase. I traveled about 400 miles (one way) to pick it up. Mine came with a 2hp Evinrude motor, model of 1940. One of the first things I replaced were the stays with 1/8" ones from D&R Marine. A couple weeks ago I completed the Texas 200 with my cousin in my boat. The Texas 200 is a 6 day sailing trip 200 miles up the Texas coast, with camping at night. We started the trip with 14 gal. of water and all our camping gear and provisions in the cuddy cabin. A video of my boat on the 3rd day can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/user/daddio1233#p/u/8/ii49N95XKWY . You can see the boat is heavily loaded. My cousin is at the helm, I'm up against the cuddy cabin handling jib lines and navigating. We using a double reefed main. The winds all week were over 20 knots after about 10am every day.

John
 
Jan 24, 2005
4,881
Oday 222 Dighton, Ma.
I have a 76 Daysailer II and like it very much. I bought mine 5 years ago for $1200. It had some damage on it that I had to repair, but the owner let me know about it before the purchase. I traveled about 400 miles (one way) to pick it up. Mine came with a 2hp Evinrude motor, model of 1940. One of the first things I replaced were the stays with 1/8" ones from D&R Marine. A couple weeks ago I completed the Texas 200 with my cousin in my boat. The Texas 200 is a 6 day sailing trip 200 miles up the Texas coast, with camping at night. We started the trip with 14 gal. of water and all our camping gear and provisions in the cuddy cabin. A video of my boat on the 3rd day can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/user/daddio1233#p/u/8/ii49N95XKWY . You can see the boat is heavily loaded. My cousin is at the helm, I'm up against the cuddy cabin handling jib lines and navigating. We using a double reefed main. The winds all week were over 20 knots after about 10am every day.

John
Wow, what an adventure that must have been! That boat is going right along. Great flick John!
Joe
 
Dec 26, 2009
211
Oday 22 cleveland
That price is kinda steep...a guy at the marina had a 80's San Juan 24, for sale last year for 3k. If I didn't have a boat already I would have bought it.
Really sharp yellow hull, black hardware etc. Excellent cond, roller furling, small weather desk and all.
He moved on to another boat and the fees to store it were going to kill him.
There are some "real deals" to be had with this economy.
 
Jan 24, 2005
4,881
Oday 222 Dighton, Ma.
That price is kinda steep...a guy at the marina had a 80's San Juan 24, for sale last year for 3k. If I didn't have a boat already I would have bought it.
Really sharp yellow hull, black hardware etc. Excellent cond, roller furling, small weather desk and all.
He moved on to another boat and the fees to store it were going to kill him.
There are some "real deals" to be had with this economy.
It's true. The money I paid for that Sturdee Cat boat was steep, but they know that they can get that kind of money for a small catboat because they are pretty much in demand. I still owned my O'Day 222 back then but I wanted something that I could use in the off season that was easy to trailer and set up. I used to trailer it to Bristol RI back then and sail that area in November.
I wanted to sail the lake next to my house and the ramp had a lot of sand built up on one side of it which would cause my O'Day to scrape the keel as it was sliding of my roller trailer and into the water. I also got stuck on the ramp a few times and wasn't able to use it with my 222.

The biggest reason why I wanted the Catboat was to sail in November and December on mild days. My 222 was all covered up for the winter by then.
I had visions of turning that boat into a small micro cruiser but they never materialized. Then one stormy night a branch came down and broke the combing boards. After that happened, I just let the boat sit in the yard until the trailer rusted out and the tires went flat.
Today, I really don't miss that boat. I'd have been way ahead of the game if I'd have just bought a kayak back then.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda, but didn't. :D
 
Aug 31, 2009
78
Oday 25 Branford, CT
Catboat sailing

The biggest reason why I wanted the Catboat was to sail in November and December on mild days.
Ahhh, nothing like a good sail in the crisp December winds :)

Matt
 
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