[quote=dsnell]Bit late to this topic. There is a difference in a Seaspray modified to be competitive for racing or enhanced recreational sailing as opposed to a typical recreational Seaspray that is the same as the day it was factory built. If you are lucky enough to get a race ready Seaspray with all the class rule allowable changes done to the boat it is definitely worth $3000 Canadian dollars & up, with trailer, launching dolly, new sails and weighing around 180 lbs all up. I would agree that a typical recreational boat is not worth very much if it hasn't been kept up. $400 to maybe $1500 depending on how it has been maintained seems fair. Anybody who is handy can fix up an old Seaspray for not a lot of money and have a lively, fun to sail, easy to manhandle, easy to right from capsize, boat with very simple controls. Check out the canadianseaspray website for info on modifications developed over the years by the competitors of this great little catamaran. I have owned different larger catamarans like the hobie 16, trac 16, and others, but if you don't have a crew or don't like to move heavy over built boats that can be difficult to right after a capsize then leave the bigger cats alone. A fully race modified Seaspray would include the following; sock sail or halyard sail with a light weight aluminum tube mast weighing half to two thirds the weight of an extruded aluminum mast (11 lbs-socksail, 17 lbs-halyard as opposed to 23 lbs), waterlogged foam flotation removed from hulls, split trampoline, boom-end mainsheet (no passing the tiller around the mainsheet), laminate sails, barber-haulers for the jib, okanagan steering (allows steering from forward of the main beam), through the hull rudder-blade downhaul system, thinner smaller dagger boards and rudder blades. These and other changes over the years are allowable within the class rules. The boat crossbeams, bow tube, mast, boom can all be sourced from the irrigation supply businesses, the deck can be removed from the hull and reassembled easily allowing repairs inside and out. There isn't a thing a handy person can't fix or fashion for this boat from easily sourced suppliers. You can easily double two boats on one trailer for twosome fun. Sails are available from North Sails out of Vancouver, building both sock sails and halyard sails. Hope these comments will help someone who is considering getting into sailing a Seaspray. If a boat has been partially or fully modified for racing or enhanced recreational sailing, price ranges would be in the $1500 to $3500 Canadian, depending what has been done to the boat, condition of the hulls, and if the sails are laminate, dacron, new or not so new.[/quote]
