On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:06:12 -0800, "70's" wrote:

Can anyone tell me anything good or bad about a 22" Sirius?
There's one for sale with trailer, for ~$4,000.00, which sounds good, but I
don't want to buy something I'll feel like selling soon afterwards.
I've looked it up on the net, didn't see much, but just want personal
opinions.
Thanks to all.

I don't know anything bad about them, lot's good. Huge amount of interior space
for it's size. Really large V berth. Seakindly. A friend had one until the
middle of last summer, sailed it on Georgian Bay. And I mean SAILED it. He only
sold it because he was getting older nad the bending over insde was becoming an
issue. They were built in Owen Sound, ON.
Around here (SW Ontario), they have quite a high resale value compared to other
vessels of similar vintage. His went for $8500CDN, with a trailer, roller
furling jib and all the standard equipment (I think it was a 2 stroke outboard
even). Converting $4K US = about $5200CDN, so I;d say it was a fair price. As a
previous poster mentioned, search Sirius 21.

You may have already found it, but in case you didn't, Canadian Yachting had
this to say about it:

One gem is the Sirius 21/22 built by Vandestadt and McGruer Ltd. of Owen Sound,
Ont. a company which had a strong 25-year history before finally closing its
doors in 1987. Designed at Vandestadt, the Sirius 21/22 was an innovative boat
and indeed is said to be the first North American production-built, ballasted
cruising boat with positive flotation. In a more expensive procedure,
closed-cell foam was injected into some compartments, then into the gap between
the inner and outer hull the full length and up to the deck level. The foam
stiffened the hull, provided sound and head insulation as well as buoyancy. Of
course, with foam-injection construction, there is some loss of space in the
interior as well as in stowage lockers.