Cal 22 Buyer's Guide
The Cal 22 is a mid-eighties design from C Raymond Hunt Associates, built by Bangor Punta Marine, and offered on the used market as a fiberglass fractional-rig daysailer and light racer. For a shopper scanning brokerage inventory, the boat presents as a small, shallow-draft coastal platform rather than a cruiser or offshore candidate, and the evaluation below stays with what the documentation supports.
Layouts on the Used Market
The Cal 22 is a 22-foot fiberglass monohull with a fin keel and transom-hung rudder, a 7.75-foot beam, and a documented draft of about 3.51 to 3.81 feet depending on load. The record does not describe interior layouts, berth counts, or cabin subdivisions for the used fleet, so a buyer should treat the boat as a daysailer-scale vessel and verify any accommodation claims at inspection rather than assuming a fixed layout across used Cal 22s.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
On the used market, used Cal 22s often carry a spinnaker and a short handed setup, two items the prevailing market read places in the often-seen tier rather than as universal factory equipment. The documented rigging schedule gives exact lengths and diameters — mainsail, jib/genoa, and spinnaker halyards at 21.0 m (68.7 feet) and 8 mm (5/16 inch); jib and genoa sheets at 6.7 m (22.0 feet) and 10 mm (3/8 inch); mainsheet at 16.8 m (55.0 feet) and 10 mm; spinnaker sheet at 14.8 m (48.4 feet) and 10 mm; cunningham, kickingstrap, and clew-outhaul at 8 mm — which lets a buyer check whether a seller’s running rigging matches the design standard.
What to Inspect
The available record shows no documented structural defects, deck-joint failures, or flooding paths specific to the Cal 22. The one quantified limitation a buyer should note is the capsize screening value of 2.42, which indicates this boat would not be accepted to participate in ocean races, and the Motion Comfort Ratio of 10.4, which the comparison ranks above only 21% of similar sailboat designs. Inspect the hull for the documented fiberglass construction and confirm the fin keel and transom-hung rudder are intact, but no known fleet-wide defect list exists in the sources.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
The Cal 22 typically appears in the United States. For a buyer, the takeaway is a short checklist: confirm the documented draft range of 3.51–3.81 feet suits intended moorings; verify often-seen spinnaker and short handed setup are present or budget for them; check rigging against the 21.0 m halyard and 6.7 m sheet standard; and accept that the capsize screening value excludes offshore-race use. The Cal 22 is a light, shallow-draft coastal racer best matched to day-sailing and light-air club racing rather than passage-making.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Cal 22. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 3 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25 | 1 | $900 | — |
| May 25 | 1 | $4,355 | +383.9% |
| Jul 26 | 3 | $2,495 | -42.7% |
Where they're listed
Cal 22 listings appear across 1 country. United States has the most listings with 3.
Country view
3 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $2,495 | 3 | 3 | 100.0% |
Comparable models
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Similar boats to compare
3 similar designs| Model | LOA | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalina 22 | 23.83' | $ 6,500 | 79 | 25 |
| J-Boats J/22 | 22.5' | $ 10,000 | 10 | 4 |
| CAL 22You are here | — | $ 2,495 | 3 | 3 |