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| 15-19ft | $24,000 | $8,000 |
| 20-24ft | $50,000 | $19,000 |
| 25-29ft | $96,000 | $30,000 |
| 30-34ft | $183,000 | $66,000 |
| 35-39ft | $251,000 | $111,000 |
| 40-44ft | $326,000 | $150,000 |
| 45-49ft | $400,000 | $162,000 |
| 50-60ft | $654,000 | $281,000 |
| 80-100ft | $5,889,000 | $1,534,000 |
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How Much Sailboats Cost On Average (380+ Prices Compared)
WHAT’S HAPPENING to sailboat prices? UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2023.
This article was originally written in 2020. much has changed therefore i’ve added an addendum..
We’ve all been watching it . It is clear that the resale values of used “production” fiberglass sailboats over a length of 20 feet or so are plummeting to new lows. Yet the prices of some smaller sailboats, if new or nearly new, are rising rapidly with inflation. Today you can buy five old 35-foot sailboats for the price of one new 15-to-21 footer. The question is… why?
BACKGROUND: The advent of fiberglass as a means of building sailboats began in the 1960s. Up until that time only fabulously wealthy individuals could afford a yacht. It took many months of work by highly skilled shipbuilders to build just the hull of a wooden sailboat, and this represented only a fraction of the fully completed yacht’ s cost . But fiberglass cut the time to build each part that could come out of a mold – the hull or the deck – to maybe one week for let’s say a 35-footer. And the work could be done by minimum-wage workers who could be trained in a few hours to lay up a fiberglass hull or deck and the other parts. The vastly diminished prices attracted hoards of new owners to the pastime of sailing. And whole new things called “marinas” were built to store them… up until the advent of fiberglass yachts were kept on moorings.
The fiberglass layup process emitted a noxious chemical—styrene—into the atmosphere and the lungs of anyone nearby. But money was being made by the factory owners, the workers had jobs, and fun was being had by a whole new class of boat owners. What has changed today?
Remembering that prices are nothing but the product of the law or supply and demand, here is why a few small, new sailboats have high prices that are going higher, and many larger, old sailboats have prices that are low and going lower.
1. ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. When fiberglass yachts first started to be built it was possible to do what is called “open layup.” The byproducts of curing polyester and vinylester resins simply flashed off into the air and disappeared. Today open layup is only permitted in small shops who squeeze under the radar of OSHA, and rightly so. It is still legally possible to lay up small fiberglass parts in a small shop with no nearby dwellings. But the larger factories that spewed out tens of thousands of affordable yachts and tons of styrene into the air are all gone. Factories that created the thousands of cheap yachts that are now for sale on Craigslist for next to nothing are now fond memories. But thank you PEARSON, O’DAY, CAPE DORY, MORGAN, IRWIN, CATALINA, CAL, SHANNON, SQUADRON, HINCKLEY, MORRIS, ALDEN, FRIENDSHIP, CABO RICO, and countless others for bringing the joys of sailing to many.
2. DEPRECIATION. In the early days nobody knew how long a fiberglass sailboat might last. We were all used to cars, which lasted ten to fifteen years and depreciated accordingly. I talked to a finance salesman once at an Annapolis Sailboat Show. He told me that his agency’s assumption (needed in the case of a possible repossession) was that a financed sailboat depreciated from its new price, to scrap value—near zero—in a straight line over ten years. Thus most used sailboats for sale now are selling at or below their scrap value. Since fiberglass is difficult to separate from the other materials like the keel, which if of lead has some residual monetary value, most used sailboats today are worth what the lead is worth, minus the cost of separating if from the hull. There is really no way to recycle the fiberglass. This is why a short drive from your home you will see many old fiberglass “yachts” in peoples’ backyards with “for sale” signs on them, that will in truth never see the water again.
2. MAINTENANCE. All material objects require maintenance. A washing machine or dryer or refrigerator don’t require much, an automobile quite a lot, but a sailboat—being immersed in a corrosive element and exposed to the summer sun—requires more maintenance than virtually any other man-made object. While it is true that one could at enormous expense maintain a sailboat in close to new condition, doing so would cost, for a more than ten year old sailboat, more each year than the product is worth. It’s one thing to spend $20,000 a year to maintain a brand new 35-foot sailboat that cost $250,000 at the latest boat show years ago. It’s quite another to spend $20,000 a year to maintain a ten year old sailboat that you bought for $25,000 or less. And in actual fact newer things require less maintenance than older things. So let me re-phrase that sentence. It’s one thing to spend $10,000 a year on a brand new 35-foot sailboat that cost $250,000 at the latest boat show. It’s quite another to spend $25,000 a year on a ten year old sailboat worth $25,000.
3. COSTS VERSUS INFLATION. Fifty years ago a boatyard worker might have earned $4.00 per hour and a boatyard’s entirely reasonable fee might have been $10 per hour to account for its investment in land, buildings, insurance, and employment costs… Social Security and Medicare matching, paid holidays and vacations, sick days, etc. Today a boatyard worker earns $20 to $40 per hour and sailboat construction or maintenance costs over $100 per hour south of Boston, $75 per hour up here in Maine.
4. MAINTENANCE COST VERSUS SIZE. A brand new, smallish yacht requires very little maintenance. A coat of varnish on the brightwork, a yearly coat of bottom paint. And rent of a small patch of covered winter storage space. For a 15 to 18 footer, maybe $2500 per year. Of course if you are handy and have a garage there is no storage fee, and a can of varnish and bottom paint might cost you $200. The winter work list on a 35-footer can stretch into hundreds of manhours per season. In a city that might mean 100 manhours = $10,000. For an older 35-footer, whose work list expands with age, $10,000 to $25,000 per year. One way or the other you pay – very little for an old 35-footer at first, but a whole lot every year thereafter; A lot of money upfront for a new 15-footer, and virtually no money every year for a decade afterwards.
3. IN THE WATER FEES. A big sailboat will most likely be kept at a marina slip. $5000 per summer, maybe. A small sailboat can be kept on its trailer in the garage and launched when needed, or on a mooring or if you are lucky, or alongside your waterfront float, at little to no cost.
4. TIME REQUIRED TO GO FOR A SAIL. Big or small, when the whim overtakes you to go for an afternoon sail, the time to drive to the marina or yacht club, and perhaps take the launch out to your boat, is the same. But once you get aboard it takes a few seconds to hoist a small boat’s sails, and maybe a quarter to half an hour to get going in your 35-footer. This latter disincentive is one reason you see so many big white boats sitting unused in marinas on sunny summer weekends, and so many small sailboats actually out sailing.
5. SINGLEHANDING. Most larger boats can only be used if you can find crew. Most small boats can be easily singlehanded. The law of supply and demand means prices of boats that can be singlehanded will be higher than those that cannot be. (Small boat prices have morphed higher as large boat prices have plummeted).
6. CONSUMER PRODUCTS VERSUS WORK OF ART. Factory produced “yachts” were nothing more than very large consumer products. They call washers and dryers and refrigerators, “white goods”, and mass-produced sailboats were nothing more than very large and expensive white goods. They’re even – most of them – white in color. The few small sailboats available new on the market today are invariable hand-built works of art, produced by skilled artisans and often trimmed out in rare tropical hardwoods and even in some cases sporting masts and booms of varnished spruce or incredibly strong and light carbon fiber. Consumer goods always depreciate in value; works of art tend to appreciate in value.
7. ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. Most people who enjoy outdoor sports these days are also supporters of an ever cleaner environment. Meaning they are against open layup fiberglass production with its degradation of the upper atmosphere and the lungs of its workers. They know that the byproducts of epoxy resin are less harmful than those of polyester resin. They know that wood is an environmentally superior construction material to glass and resin. They know that small toys (yachts are playthings… toys) are less environmentally destructive in their fabrication than are large toys.
8. MATERIAL COST INFLATION. For the decade 2010 to 2020 at least there had been little inflation, until the advent of Covid. But that has now abruptly changed. Our central bankers have responded to a pandemic by throwing care to the winds and “creating” lots of fake money. The result has been the same as it has always been. Double the supply of money, and after a year the price of everything will have doubled, and nobody will be any better off despite the good intentions. Our central bankers have “printed” approximately 30% more money, in an attempt to soften the blow of “shit happening”. But fact is, you can’t. In fact inflating the currency always creates a worse situation than maintaining a stable currency and letting things adjust automatically. So inflation is back.
9. RECYCLING UNWANTED “YACHTS”. It is difficult and costly to dump or recycle scrap yachts. In fact if we are to get rid of all the unwanted production “yachts” sitting in backyards new ways will have to be found to separate the fiberglass from the metals, and someone—presumably the last owner—will have to be forced to pay for it. Which is why so many old former yachts are “for sale” on Craigslist. Putting a price on the thing, although a cheap price, might fool someone into thinking it is an asset rather than a costly liability. Someone will ultimately have to pay to have the thing hauled away and recycled.
10. CHARTERING. Time was when the only way to see some of the magical places in the world—the Caribbean, Seychelles, Tahiti, Croatia, Bora Bora—was to buy a yacht, learn celestial navigation, find a way to spend months or years without working (rob a bank or inherit lots of money), and fight down seasickness as you thrash your way day after day down to the tropics. You had no alternative than to pay a lot of money for a proper, big, offshore sailing yacht. Then someone invented chartering. You covered the miles by the thousands in a comfortable seat near the front of a marvelous aluminum contraption sipping cocktails at 580 miles per hour. Then took command of a larger and newer yacht than you could ever afford to own, and after a week of fun in the sun gave it back to the charter company to fix all the things that went wrong. What wrecked the idea of the personally owned large yacht more than any other factor, leaving only the more sensible day-sailing yachts viable for personal ownership, was chartering.
11. IS SAILING DEAD? The good news is, no it is not, far from it. It is true that many exciting and far cheaper sports have been invented that compete with sailing and appeal to the handsome young buck bursting with testosterone and his female counterpart. Windsurfing, ocean kayaking, kitesailing, standup paddleboarding, the list goes on and on. But the challenge of making a vehicle move silently and at no environmental cost through the water using nothing but the power of nature itself, even contrary to the very direction of the wind, will always be fascinating. And the closer you can get to the interface between land and sea—the waterfront—for which wealthy folks now must now pay millions of dollars—the better, and you do so at absolutely no fee.
12. DO ALL SAILING YACHTS DEPRECIATE? No, thanks to the law of supply and demand. Antique yachts appreciate reliably in price, because the supply decreases with time while the demand increases. Old wooden yachts disappear from the market, because many of them are not properly maintained. But the remaining ones gain in value. As an example an authentic Herreshoff 12½ sold new in 1937 for $750. I just sold my 83 years old (it, not me) Herreshoff for $29,500… today’s average selling price (not asking price) for an authentic 12½ in good condition. No investment I ever made… stocks, bonds, real estate, annuities.. has come close to appreciating so much in value.
THE EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE:
The few fiberglass yachts that were built in low volume, custom production to exceptionally high standards, retain good value if properly maintained. These are the Morris Yachts, Hinckleys, Aldens, Cambrias, and many of the custom designed and built yachts from the famous yards, usually of welded aluminum. These yachts cost, when built, at least triple the cost of a Morgan, Catalina, or Irwin. But the payback is that today they have retained ten times the value of the high volume nautical “white goods”and that value is going up. not down, thanks to inflation..
13. WHAT MAKES SENSE TO OWN TODAY? First of all, forget the money. Own what you think will most enhance your leisure life. Although you might always keep in the background the fact that retention of value is not at all a bad thing. Own a yacht that you will actually use, and enjoy its use. If there is a racing class that is popular where you like to sail, and you enjoy racing, your choice is easy. There is safety in numbers— the simple fact that a race committee raises a flag for that class every Saturday vastly reduces its rate of depreciation. Realize that yachts that were built to high standards at multiples of the “production yacht” price retain a high proportion of their original cost. Examples are the Morris Yachts, Aldens, Hinckleys, Alerion Express 2 8 s, Center Harbor 25s and my own recent designs the Pisces 21, York 18 and Levant 15, whose superiority and value for money are reflected in the long waiting times currently required to achieve delivery or short times on the brokerage market. Likewise the Doughdish and Cape Cod Shipbuilding 12½s and Marshall catboats if ultra-shoal draft is an issue for you, and authentic Herreshoff Manufacturing Company 12½s and Beetlecats if you can afford the formidable yearly costs of maintaining a wooden boat. Seek out the small yachts that are easily gotten going and put away, inexpensive to maintain, and can get you close to that million-dollar shoreline. Or if your dream is to head offshore, jump on any Morris or Hinckley or Alden that pops up on the brokerage market – they tend to be snatched up in a week.
SEPTEMBER 2023 UPDATE.
Interesting to re-read this three years later. Some corrections are needed!
When originally written, inflation in the general economy was hovering about 1.5% year on year. Inflation in the yacht building field was much higher- around 5%.
For various reasons inflation has reared its ugly head with a vengeance. This has caused a revision to my above comments to be necessary.
Much that has been said above still applies, to MASS-PRODUCTION yachts. They are still consumer products at the end of their usable life and therefore of little to no value.
However, it does not apply to the few very high quality designs built to last at least 100 years by Tom Morris and a few other custom-quality, low volume builders.
It has come to my attention over the last three years that virtually none of my designs remain on the brokerage market. In 2020 one would see at least 10 Chuck Paine designs on YachtWorld and a few more on other brokerage sites. When one pops up today it is immediately bought, at higher prices than were the case in 2020. It is clear to me that people who wish to retain their savings are buying good quality used yachts as hedges against inflation, not just for recreational use.
There is also “scarcity value” to anything that is both intrinsically desirable, and rare. The alternative to buying, for instance, a 30- year old used Frances 26 on the brokerage market for between $70,000 and $30,000 depending upon its condition, is to build a new one at today’s prices, which would cost $550.000. At that latter figure climbs, the prices for good condition used models does also.
I believe that the recovery in used yacht prices is forced by the current high level of inflation. Our government has chosen as governments sadly often do, to devalue the currency (inflate). So everything- including used yachts- is being bought with a new, lower value currency. And remember- yacht construction inflation is between two and three times general inflation and has been for many years. So while the general inflation level has jumped from 1.5% to 6 to 8%, yacht inflation has jumped from 5% to something more like 20% yearly. For at least as long as central bankers lack the spine to bring inflation under control, expect used Chuck Paine designed yacht prices (and equivalent quality yachts from other designers) to climb at significant rates.
I hope this is helpful.
Chuck Paine
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2008 Rhodes 22
$38,899 | stafford, va, description, specifications.
2008 Rhodes 22 Pocket Sailor
This is one of the last from this well know custom builder. All updates have been done by his yard to the original one owner's specs. This 22 has it all. The motor has a jack plate for easy raising and lowering of the rarely needed outboard with only 10 hours.
This Rhodes 22 has a new, never used main sail, new sheets (sail lines), fresh bottom paint and too many new items to list. This boat has always been in fresh water (on the Potomac) and has seen little to no use. Unless you buy a new one this is the closest you will ever get to a new one.
This may be the last chance to own a Rhodes 22 by an Iconic builder know by few and revered by many as a master pocket sail builder.
She has been maintained at the factory in North Carolina where, the bottom was professionally repainted. The boat has a 2008 8hp Yamaha T8 engine. It had a full service before it was brought to the factory and ran perfectly. This boat includes all standard equipment including upgrades as follows: cushions and 175 genoa. There is a sink with an electric faucet pump, a one burner butane stove and a large "built-in" cooler (easily removable) in the galley area. There is a separate head with a flushing toilet, holding tank or macerator.
The design of this boat makes it very stable on the water, virtually impossible to capsize. It sails single handedly with no modifications and has room for the whole family with a cockpit 7'4" long and nearly 8' wide. It is a delightful pocket sailer. It can be sailed in light or high winds thanks to its innermast furling system, eight stays plus the 175% 200-sq. ft. genoa is roller-furled on the fore-stay and 100-sq. ft. mainsail rolls up into a 26' mast. With its 1.5 foot draft the Rhodes 22 can be sailed in 20" of water with the board up.
Equipment: Inner-Mast Mainsail Furling (new) Updated "Traveler" (new) Two Deep Cycle Batteries (2019 new) New Sheets (sail line) Fresh Water Tank (Deck Fill) 12 Volt Pressure Fresh Water System 2 Captain Swivel Chairs Roller Furling 175% Genoa 2008 8hp Yamaha T8 w/Electric Start & Charging system 2 Solar Panels Manual Outboard Motor Lift (new) (with fittings for an electric lift) Depth/Speed Instrument and GPS Radio Full Bimini Single Axle Trailer Swim Ladder Shore Power Inlet Burner Propane Ice Box Pop-Top Hiking Stick New large round fenders New L shaped fenders Three Anchors Motor Stand Life Preservers (6?) Rail Mounted Portable Grill
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Contact InformationDominion Yachts - Dominion Yachts Rob Hess 571-436-5667 312C Poplar Alley Occoquan , VA 22125 For more info call Rob Hess 571-436-5667 Haven't found the right boat we can. Call me today to ask about our FREE location service. If we don't have the boat you want. We will help you find it at no cost to you. Get More InfomationContact: [email protected] 703-497-BOAT 1.888.314.5509 Or fill out the information request form below and we'll be in touch. Find your dream boatMarine financing.  CINDY LEWIS Sterling Associates | Mid-Atlantic Sales Rep 410-903-6611 [email protected] Evolution 22The evolution 22 is a 21.75ft masthead sloop designed by julian everitt and built in fiberglass by evolution yachts ltd. (uk) between 1978 and 1984., 90 units have been built.. The Evolution 22 is a moderate weight sailboat which is slightly under powered. It is stable / stiff and has a low righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a day-boat.  Evolution 22 for sale elsewhere on the web: Main features
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OWNER PHOTO: "Bella Barchetta", Half Moon Bay, CA.  Known for its sweet sailing performance in nearly all conditions, the Catalina Capri 22 has been winning sailors since its introduction. The Capri 22 is more comfortable, safer at sea and easier to maintain than any boat in its class. The striking deck profile is flared across the stern and has wider cockpit curves for crew comfort during and after sailing. Under the full reclining length seats is a new storage locker and separate battery locker. A complete racing package is available, including: symmetrical spinnaker, sheets, pole and backstay tension adjuster. The enclosable head and available galley module make the Capri 22 suitable for extended daysailing or weekending. PHOTO GALLERY GENERAL DIMENSIONS Length Overall: 24′ 8″ Length of Hull: 22′ 0″ Length at Waterline: 20’ 0″ Beam: 8′ 2″ Distance from Waterline to Masthead: Std 32′ 5″, Tall 34′ 5″ Draft: 2′ 8″ Ballast: 700 lbs Basic Weight: 2,250 lbs Displacement / Length: 125 Sail Area / Displacement: 21.3 Ballast Ratio: 31% Draft: 4′ 0″ Ballast: 650 lbs Designed Weight: 2,200 lbs Displacement / Length: 123 Sail Area / Displacement: 21.6 Ballast Ratio: 30% RIG MEASUREMENTS (STD) Total with 100% Foretriangle: 229ft 2 RIG MEASUREMENTS (TALL) Total with 100% Foretriangle: 255ft 2 ENGINE & CONTROLS Recommended: 4-10 HP Outboard Primary Lewmar #15, Self Tailing Optional Cabin Top: #7 Battery Qty – 1 Group 27 150 Amp-Hrs TANKS & CAPACITIES Fuel: Portable 6 gal Holding / Black Water: Portable Head All specifications are approximate and subject to change without notice. Actual equipment also subject to change without notice. STANDARD EQUIPMENTConstruction.
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Like the Volkswagen Beetle, this pocket cruiser has been much refined over the years. While most of the innovations are clever, some, at least occasionally, are a bother. As with many of our used boat reports, we invited owners of the Rhodes 22 to comment on its design, construction, quality of workmanship, performance, and customer service from the factory. We received a greater response, and a more uniformly enthusiastic response, than we’ve had to any similar request in recent years. Impressive, especially when you consider that only 50 of these boats are built each year. When we got an opportunity to take one out and put it through its paces, we gained some insight into just what prompted all this loyalty. Designed by Phillip Rhodes back in 1960, the Rhodes 22 is a trailerable cruiser for a couple that wants the amenities of a larger boat without putting up with the hassles and expenses of a larger boat. It’s clearly not a racing boat. It’s also not a “shoehorn special,” whose claim to fame is how many persons it can sleep. And it’s not an inexpensive boat for its size. The Rhodes 22, from its inception, has been a purpose-built boat. And, with a history of detail improvements and some innovative thinking, it meets that purpose quite well. The Rhodes 22 has a fairly long waterline—20′. Overhangs are minimal. This is clearly the first step towards cramming a lot of cruising conveniences into what is, after all, a small boat. The most readily noticeable feature of its hull is a pronounced flare at the gunwales, much like that found on a 505 or similar racing dinghy. The look is odd on a keelboat, but the flare provides a few notable advantages: The compound curvature stiffens the hull, provides a hiking seat to reduce heeling, helps deflect spray, and provides some extra buoyancy when the boat is heeled over, helping to prevent capsize, according to Stan Spitzer, the owner of General Boats. Unlike most trailerable sailboats sold today, the Rhodes 22 uses neither a swing keel nor water ballast. Instead, there’s a shoal keel with a centerboard built in. With the board up, the boat draws 20″; 48″ with the board down. Compared to a swing keel, this arrangement may lose a bit of stiffness because the keel’s weight is carried higher; but it has the advantages of eliminating the swing keel’s highly stressed pivot pin as well as the necessity for a winch and a cable to haul up the keel (which may hum annoyingly when you’re underway). Compared to water ballast of the same weight, the shoal keel/centerboard arrangement carries its weight lower, making the boat stiffer. In any case, the Rhodes 22 can be sailed in 20″ of water with the board up; it sails just fine that way, though it can’t point as high as it can with the board down. The board is designed to kick up if it strikes an obstruction. The 100-sq. ft. mainsail rolls up into a 26′ mast and a 175% 200-sq. ft. genoa is roller-furled on the forestay. The arrangement does not make the most efficient sail shape, particularly with a partially-furled jib in heavier weather, and without battens to support a large mainsail roach. But it’s hard to argue with the convenience of this rig. A less-obvious advantage is that you don’t have to deal with the problem of finding a place to store bulky sailbags belowdecks.  The Rhodes 22 makes up for whatever loss of sail efficiency may be caused by its furling features by providing a generous 300 sq. ft. of sail. Other sail options are available, including a self-tending jib and conventional hank-on sails. The hinged mast is well-supported by a forestay, a pair of backstays, upper shrouds, forward and aft lowers. Each of these has its own chainplate. One nice thing about having all this standing rigging is that the loss of any one stay shouldn’t bring the mast crashing down. (If the forestay breaks, the forward lower shrouds hopefully will keep the mast up until you can jury-rig a new forestay.) Chainplates are mounted solidly. The forestay’s padeye is through-bolted to the deck and hull, while the two backstay plates are bolted through the corners of the transom. The upper shroud chainplates are bolted through the hull-deck joint, while the four lower shroud chainplates are glassed into the cabin top. This location provides a “corridor” between the upper and lower shrouds that facilitates movement fore and aft on deck. Construction The Rhodes 22’s construction is best described as conventional, with good attention to detail. The hull is laid up with a layer of chop on the skin, followed by a layer of roving, followed by Coremat. The deck uses a glass syntactic foam core, making it and the cabin top about 1″ thick. Twenty-five different molds provide finished surfaces where otherwise none would exist. The lazarette hatch, for example, has a finished liner instead of a rough fiberglass surface, and coaming compartments have finished, built-in storage shelves. Galley doors are molded in two separate sections and cemented together to avoid warping. The hull-to-deck joint is a “shoebox” design, with a vertical deck flange slipping over the hull. The joint is screwed together with stainless steel fasteners and then caulked. There are heavier through-bolts at the bow and stern, and at chainplate areas, which are preferable. The joint is covered with a rub rail. The Rhodes 22 has two molded foam sections glassed into the hull; one under the forward bunk and one under the cockpit sole. Spitzer said that these make the boat unsinkable, an important safety feature not found in most small cruisers.  The keel is a molded-in, integral part of the hull, eliminating problems of keelbolts as well as reinforcing the boat’s bottom. Inside, there’s a separately molded centerboard trunk, and 630 lbs. of encapsulated-shot ballast. The centerboard’s pivot is inside the boat and can’t leak; the 70-lb. centerboard requires no hold-down line while sailing, but is still light enough to be raised by a braided pennant and secured with a cleat. It’s made of molded fiberglass with some ballast inside. Hardware is of good quality throughout. Cleats, for instance, are four-bolt 10″ stainless steel open base models; hand rails, including a unique one at the aft end of the cabin trunk, are stainless steel, though teak is available. Winches are made by Lewmar. Working on the theory that most cruisers spend much of their time in the cockpit, the Rhodes 22 was designed with a huge cockpit that’s 7′ 4″ long and nearly 8′ wide. It’s self-bailing, with a full-length bench seat on each side. The benches have open fronts, which makes for comfortable seating (closed-front benches force you to keep your legs extended), are independently self-bailing, and there’s room underneath for plastic storage bins. Aft, there’s a transverse bench covering a lazarette, which opens to a 6′ wide area that provides access to transom-mounted hardware as well as a great deal of storage space. The coamings, which function as backrests, have a pair of compartments, each with two shelves. The flared gunwales are comfortable for hiking out. And there’s a socket in the sole so that a table can be moved from belowdecks to the cockpit. The stern rail is mounted on the side decks, outboard of the coaming, to make sitting on the coaming tops more comfortable. Optional are a pair of swivel seats—complete with backrest and padded armrest on the rail—that mount on the coaming. The cabin door is hinged horizontally halfway up, with a stainless steel piano hinge. This can be folded out to make a chart table or card table depending upon your inclinations; there’s a molded-in socket for a supporting leg. Or, you can fold the top section down to let you see what the kids are doing in the cabin. Or, you can remove the door completely and stow it inside the gunwale. All the controls are cockpit-mounted and fall readily to hand. The roller furling control line for the genoa is cleated on the cabin top. The mainsail roller furling is controlled by the outhaul and a control line that passes through the boom, with boom-mounted cleats. The boom can be raised via a topping lift to clear the pop-top, or lowered to reduce heeling. There is no vang, which is unfortunate. The jib sheets run through adjustable track-mounted blocks to a pair of winches located aft so that they can be handled conveniently by the helmsman for single-handing. The traveler is very unique. It rides on a stainless steel rod mounted transversely across the twin backstays. The mainsheet cleat is mounted on the traveler block; the traveler controls are at the ends of the rod. This arrangement, odd as it may look, keeps the traveler from intruding into the cockpit space, and provides a bit of shock absorption in case of an accidental jibe. We tried it, and it works. The tiller swings up for stand-up sailing or for easier maneuvering around the cockpit. A hiking stick lets one sail the boat from just about anywhere in the cockpit or up on the coamings, and there are even a pair of clips mounted on the aft rail that hold the tiller in any position in which it is set. The rudder kicks up if it strikes an obstruction, and can be adjusted to provide as heavy or as light a helm as you prefer.  The cabin top features a pop-top with 6′ 4″ headroom; when down, there’s about 50″ of sitting headroom. The boat can be sailed with the top in either position. Like so many other pieces of equipment on the Rhodes 22, the pop-top is a unique design. Unlike most pop-tops, which are supported by pivoting arms, the aft section of the Rhodes 22’s top is supported by a pair of telescoping stainless steel tubes, with spring-loaded detents. To raise the top, you start by lifting the rear portion—lifting only half the top’s weight—until the detents lock into position. A fitting on the forward edge of the pop-top rides in the mast’s sail slot. There are two side-by-side opening hatches in the deck forward of the pop-top, one above the head and one above the dinette. There’s no gasket between the pop-top and the rest of the cabin—a generous overhang and deep lip allow air to circulate and prevent water leaks. The sliding companionway hatch has a built-in key lock. The cabin layout of the Rhodes 22 is roomy and remarkably livable. It is, in large part, a tribute to the idea of making a firm decision about what you want a boat to be, and then resisting all temptations to make it something else. The Rhodes 22 is a cruiser for a couple, with possibly several youngsters. Sleeping accommodations for the couple consist of a 6′ 6″ double berth on the port side of the dinette area; the secondary bunks consist of 6′ V-berths. If you need more sleeping room than this, there’s an optional boom-supported canopy system that General Boats calls a “Boom Room.” It converts the cockpit to a standing-headroom second cabin with a padded floor, and provides luxurious camp-aboard accommodations, though with minimal privacy. When the dinette berth isn’t in use, half the “mattress” sections become backrest cushions for a settee, while a rotating, telescoping-base table that helps form the center section can be raised to table height and used in the dinette, or moved out to the cockpit, or stored in tracks under the forward deck. The galley and head are on the starboard side. The galley features a 4-1/2′ counter containing a sink, stove and a large, front-opening icebox with adjustable shelves and an ice-water tap. There’s a large open storage shelf just below the portlights, and a deep cabinet just below that. There’s more storage underneath the counter. Built into the face of the top shelf are 12-volt DC and 110-volt AC outlets. Access to plumbing and electrical connections is good.  Spitzer (who has a weakness for puns) describes the Rhodes 22’s head as The Swell Head. When we compare it to the primitive accommodations on most small cruisers, we must agree. It’s fully enclosed, with a clever multi-paneled door that opens up to provide a large, non-claustrophobic space, or closes to occupy a minimum of floor space when it’s not in use. Inside, there’s a marine toilet, with sea cock-controlled water intake, holding tank and fittings for dockside pump-out or macerated discharge. Inside, there is a mirror, cosmetic shelf, toilet paper holder, medicine cabinet, towel rack, magazine rack lighting and a 110-volt outlet for a hairdryer or electric shaver. The sole is tiled. For showering, Spitzer suggests that you take a solar-heated shower in the self-bailing cockpit. The head can be accessed from either the dinette or the V-berths. The large hatch over the head, aside from providing ventilation and light, performs another function when the pop-top is down. If the 50″ of headroom isn’t enough to permit convenient use of the head, you can open the hatch and let your upper body emerge—presumably with a relieved smile—while you use the head in relative privacy. Miscellaneous The Rhodes 22 has so many gadgets that it’s hard to list them all. One particularly nice one is its adjustable motor mount. Instead of the usual recalcitrant jointed aluminum affair, it slides up and down on a pair of low-friction plastic tracks on the port side of the transom. To raise the engine, you pull a rope lanyard that passes through a 6:1 purchase magic box—almost no effort, and excellent position control. There’s a three-step boarding ladder attached to the starboard side of the transom. Performance We took the Rhodes 22 out on a breezy day—18-20 knots, with a 1′-3′ chop. Getting underway was as easy as advertised; we started out with the full 175% genoa and full main. The boat is initially tender, but stiffens up quickly as it heels. The flared gunwales make hiking-out easy (and not particularly demanding athletically); putting two people on the rail did a great deal towards flattening out the ride. We suspect that if we’d been single-handing the boat, we would have reduced sail, just to help keep the boat sailing on her lines.  The Rhodes sailed nicely with the board down, and presentably with it up, though pointing ability naturally suffered. We tried sailing the boat under jib alone, which worked fine, with no problems tacking. We did the same under main alone with similar results. As with any boat, the more a sail is furled, the poorer its shape; after about 30% has been furled, ideally you’d switch to as smaller sail. But when you’re starting with a 175% genoa, you’ll still have a lot of sail up even after furling a third. In any case, we found the Rhodes 22 to be a lively-feeling boat that’s fun to sail, which is probably more important in a cruiser than absolute speed. The hull is fast, especially off the wind. The Rhodes has a PHRF rating of about 258, which is a bit faster than, say, the Catalina 22 (270), the O’Day 22 (279) or the Chrysler 22 (282) It’s by no means a racing boat (the J-22 has a rating of 177). The Rhodes 22 is an easy boat to sail, with enough basic adjustments to satisfy most sailors, though we do wish for a boom vang. Controls are very well laid out for sailing from just about anywhere in the cockpit, though we’d like to see foot rests or toe straps to help keep the skipper and crew from sliding about in the large open cockpit. Conclusions It’s nice to see a boat that does what it’s intended to do as well as the Rhodes 22 does. It’s a cruiser, and packs a lot of cruising capability into a small trailerable boat. You can daysail it, obviously, but it’s really on the pricey side if a daysailer is all you want. Andyou can squeeze some more adults aboard for cruising, but at the expense of comfort, privacy or both. As a cruiser for two, it’s hard to beat without going up considerably in size and price. The reports we’ve received from readers are almost universally enthusiastic. General sells the Rhodes 22 in a variety of models, depending upon equipment, from $19,000 to $29,000. General Boats has a buy-back policy for used boats, so that factory-reconditioned models are available, at prices starting from about $10,000. RELATED ARTICLES MORE FROM AUTHORLeave a reply cancel reply. Log in to leave a comment Latest Videos Cabo Rico 34 Boat Review Super Shallow Draft Sailboat: The Leeboard Sharpie Hans Christian 41T – Boat Review Seven dead after superyacht sinks off Sicily. Was the crew at...Latest sailboat review. 
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