Moody 54DS walkaround on Düsseldorf Boat Show 2019
MOODY 41 DS, Extraordinary design or complete FAIL?
Moody 33
Moody 33 MK2 Nebula
COMMENTS
Boat Review: Moody 45DS
BALLAST RATIO 30. SAIL AREA-DISPLACEMENT RATIO 18. DISPLACEMENT-LENGTH RATIO 178. See our review of the Moody 45AC. Moody Yachts were built in Swanwick, England, on the banks of the Hamble River from the middle of the 18th century into the early years of the 21st, and Bill Dixon has been designing Moody's cruising boats since 1981.
Moody 36 MkII: a centre-cockpit cruiser that's practical and fun
The spacious master suite aft has always been a popular feature with any centre-cockpit Moody. Although only 1.83m/6ft long, the Moody 36's centrally-mounted berth is a luxurious 1.40m/5ft 4in wide. Headroom is limited to 1.75m/5ft 9in, but the cabin boasts a wealth of stowage plus a dressing table.
Moody 41DS review: Could this model win you over to the decksaloon
Verdict. It's fascinating to see how Bill Dixon and Moody have developed the decksaloon yacht since the Eclipse range of the 1980s and 1990s. The changes in 30 years are quite remarkable. As for ...
Boat Review: Moody DS54
Boat Review: Moody DS54. Part serious cruiser, part mini-superyacht, the luxurious Moody DS54 combines the romance of passagemaking with the comfort and amenities of a powerboat. This may be the perfect crossover yacht for the sailor contemplating switching to power, but who just can't bring himself to do it—because now he doesn't have to.
Our verdict on the Moody 36
The Moody 36 is also easy to sail singlehanded, with all the sail control lines and winches within easy reach in the compact cockpit, and you're not going to get shoulder cramps if you have to hand-steer her for hours on end, either. Nor are you going to become bruised and battered if the seas come up when you're working at the galley ...
Moody DS 54 Boat Review
Moody DS 54 Boat Review Photo courtesy of the manufacturer. Once upon a time, Moody Yachts was a very English company building boats in Great Britain (for nearly 200 years) that exemplified what we'd expect from a longtime British boatyard. In other words, their vessels were stout and robust, quite seaworthy and somewhat conservative, with ...
Moody 41 DS: A deck saloon that pushes all boundaries
Acres of space. In addition to being one of the few single-hulled sailing yachts in her size range to adopt the one-level approach, the Moody 41 DS draws attention to herself in a number of ways. The hard-top has an opening centre section and extends seamlessly from the deck saloon to just forward of the wheels. Credit: David Harding.
Sailboat Review: Moody DS 41
Sailboat Review: Moody DS 41. If your cruising frame of mind extends to a versatile deck-saloon design with surprising sailing chops, take a gander at the Moody DS41. ... Moody began to produce fiberglass sailboats in 1965, with Laurent Giles and Bill Dixon joining Primrose as the principal designers. During the next 30 years, Moody launched 39 ...
Moody 54DS boat test; a warm welcome on a cold day
Moody 54DS boat test - a warm welcome on a cold day in the Baltic. Belinda Bird. May 6, 2015. 0shares. 0. If you had to pick a yacht to go sailing in the Baltic in December, the voluminous, warm ...
Moody 64 Sailboat Review
contact: Moody America. (617) 536-7300. www.moody-yachts.com. More: 2001 - 2010, 50+ ft, Bluewater Cruising, keelboat, monohull, moody, Sailboat Reviews, Sailboats. With elegant lines and luxuries below to match, the new performance-minded Moody 64 puts long legs to great use.
Moody overall quality?
A bit of trivia about this boat: The prototype was entered in the ARC one year, and came in second ahead of not only the whole fleet of cruising boats, but the whole racing fleet but for only one racing boat. The Moody 64 is from the last generation of English Moodys, when the maker, at the time the oldest yacht builder in the world, was trying ...
What makes a Moody a good bluewater boat?
No matter what angle we took the waves, and no matter what speed, the boat tended to pitch harshly, colliding with each wave violently. Roll angles were also extreme for the conditions. Many of the waves hit the full bow of the boat so hard that even motoring, it literally stopped the boat's forward motion and steerage was lost for a moment.
Moody 41DS Boat Tour & Review- The Monohull for Catamaran Sailors
We're continuing our monohull review series with a boat tour and review of the Moody 41DS. This is a really interesting boat, and unlike anything else on the...
Moody S38: a good all-round family cruising boat
Moody S38: a good all-round family cruising boat. Partners Mick Jeffrey and Val Conway have owned boats and sailed together for decades and have very similar tastes with regard to their preferred type of yacht. They started cruising many years ago in a Westerly Konsort, followed by a Jaguar 27. Both were great fun, they say, but a
Thoughts on a Moody?!
We own a 1990 Moody 425. Moody was in the yacht building business for 150 years before shutting down so lots of experience. Bill Dixon designed all the later boats and he is an excellent designer.When the company was under normal production they produced a very good product but I have heard that there were some issues on fitting out some of the yachts just prior to closing the doors in Britain.
Comfortable & Seaworthy Sailing Yachts
Premium blue water cruising yachts. One hundred and fifty years of experience, coupled with unmatched excellence in design and manufacturing. It is qualities like these that have made Moody one of the most illustrious names in the sailing yacht world. Over many generations, Moody has developed an exemplary boat building culture culminating in ...
Moody Aft Cockpit 41 Sailboat Review
Tradition with a Twist: The Moody Aft Cockpit 41 wraps classical styling around a thoroughly modern underbody and comes up with a winner. Contributing to the secure feeling of the Moody Aft Cockpit 41 under sail are the wide, uncluttered side decks and the coamings that wrap around the back of the cockpit, behind the twin wheels. Billy Black.
Moody 425 as a bluewater cruiser
Boat Review Forum. SailNet is a forum community dedicated to Sailing enthusiasts. Come join the discussion about sailing, modifications, classifieds, troubleshooting, repairs, reviews, maintenance, and more! ... We own and sail a Moody 425. We bought it in Greece and sailed the Med for a couple of years before crossing over to the Caribbean ...
Four great centre cockpit Moody yachts
Moody 33: The first production Moody is from the early 1970s and featured a pair of single berths in the aft cabin. The 33 pioneered what became for many years Moody's distinctive centre-cockpit layout and wide-beamed hull design, which was still unusual in Europe at the time. The boat featured a spacious saloon, with an unusually large ...
Anyone sailed a Moody 34 or 346?
I've just dug out the YM review of the Moody 34, by JJ and AB, written after a gusty test sail, in flat seas, in 1983. As an ex-Moody 33 mk1 owner, I was very surprised to read their opinion on the 34's sailing performance eg rounding up unpredictably in gusts, and being generally unpleasant to windward.
Moody 45 DS Sailboat Review 2009
The Moody 45DS brings to a monohull the approach used in many catamarans, placing the saloon and galley in the deck house and on the same level as the cockpit. Down below are three staterooms, two of which are essentially amidships, and two heads. Modular furniture components allow a degree of mix and match in customizing the arrangement.
Moody 54: Bob Perry Review
Bob Perry reviews the Moody 54. By Bob Perry. June 11, 2003. Here's a nice big cruising boat designed for Moody by Bill Dixon - The Moody 54. The drawings show a rig with in-the-mast furling, so we can assume this design is aimed at carefree cruising. The D/L of this design is 201 and that's on the light side for a boat of this type.
Moody 42
The Moody 42 was designed for long-distance cruising, so she is solidly constructed and simply but stoutly rigged. Her high displacement and sail area/displacement ratio put her firmly in the cruiser bracket. Her displacement to waterline comparison is more favourable performance-wise than the earlier Moody 40, but still means she is stiff and ...
New 2025 Moody Decksaloon 54, 94501 Alameda
Check out this New 2025 Moody Decksaloon 54 for sale in Alameda, CA 94501. View this Cruisers and other Sail boats on boattrader.com. Check out this New 2025 Moody Decksaloon 54 for sale in Alameda, CA 94501. View this Cruisers and other Sail boats on boattrader.com ... Reviews. 4.9. Based on 374 reviews. Vann, South Carolina ...
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COMMENTS
BALLAST RATIO 30. SAIL AREA-DISPLACEMENT RATIO 18. DISPLACEMENT-LENGTH RATIO 178. See our review of the Moody 45AC. Moody Yachts were built in Swanwick, England, on the banks of the Hamble River from the middle of the 18th century into the early years of the 21st, and Bill Dixon has been designing Moody's cruising boats since 1981.
The spacious master suite aft has always been a popular feature with any centre-cockpit Moody. Although only 1.83m/6ft long, the Moody 36's centrally-mounted berth is a luxurious 1.40m/5ft 4in wide. Headroom is limited to 1.75m/5ft 9in, but the cabin boasts a wealth of stowage plus a dressing table.
Verdict. It's fascinating to see how Bill Dixon and Moody have developed the decksaloon yacht since the Eclipse range of the 1980s and 1990s. The changes in 30 years are quite remarkable. As for ...
Boat Review: Moody DS54. Part serious cruiser, part mini-superyacht, the luxurious Moody DS54 combines the romance of passagemaking with the comfort and amenities of a powerboat. This may be the perfect crossover yacht for the sailor contemplating switching to power, but who just can't bring himself to do it—because now he doesn't have to.
The Moody 36 is also easy to sail singlehanded, with all the sail control lines and winches within easy reach in the compact cockpit, and you're not going to get shoulder cramps if you have to hand-steer her for hours on end, either. Nor are you going to become bruised and battered if the seas come up when you're working at the galley ...
Moody DS 54 Boat Review Photo courtesy of the manufacturer. Once upon a time, Moody Yachts was a very English company building boats in Great Britain (for nearly 200 years) that exemplified what we'd expect from a longtime British boatyard. In other words, their vessels were stout and robust, quite seaworthy and somewhat conservative, with ...
Acres of space. In addition to being one of the few single-hulled sailing yachts in her size range to adopt the one-level approach, the Moody 41 DS draws attention to herself in a number of ways. The hard-top has an opening centre section and extends seamlessly from the deck saloon to just forward of the wheels. Credit: David Harding.
Sailboat Review: Moody DS 41. If your cruising frame of mind extends to a versatile deck-saloon design with surprising sailing chops, take a gander at the Moody DS41. ... Moody began to produce fiberglass sailboats in 1965, with Laurent Giles and Bill Dixon joining Primrose as the principal designers. During the next 30 years, Moody launched 39 ...
Moody 54DS boat test - a warm welcome on a cold day in the Baltic. Belinda Bird. May 6, 2015. 0shares. 0. If you had to pick a yacht to go sailing in the Baltic in December, the voluminous, warm ...
contact: Moody America. (617) 536-7300. www.moody-yachts.com. More: 2001 - 2010, 50+ ft, Bluewater Cruising, keelboat, monohull, moody, Sailboat Reviews, Sailboats. With elegant lines and luxuries below to match, the new performance-minded Moody 64 puts long legs to great use.
A bit of trivia about this boat: The prototype was entered in the ARC one year, and came in second ahead of not only the whole fleet of cruising boats, but the whole racing fleet but for only one racing boat. The Moody 64 is from the last generation of English Moodys, when the maker, at the time the oldest yacht builder in the world, was trying ...
No matter what angle we took the waves, and no matter what speed, the boat tended to pitch harshly, colliding with each wave violently. Roll angles were also extreme for the conditions. Many of the waves hit the full bow of the boat so hard that even motoring, it literally stopped the boat's forward motion and steerage was lost for a moment.
We're continuing our monohull review series with a boat tour and review of the Moody 41DS. This is a really interesting boat, and unlike anything else on the...
Moody S38: a good all-round family cruising boat. Partners Mick Jeffrey and Val Conway have owned boats and sailed together for decades and have very similar tastes with regard to their preferred type of yacht. They started cruising many years ago in a Westerly Konsort, followed by a Jaguar 27. Both were great fun, they say, but a
We own a 1990 Moody 425. Moody was in the yacht building business for 150 years before shutting down so lots of experience. Bill Dixon designed all the later boats and he is an excellent designer.When the company was under normal production they produced a very good product but I have heard that there were some issues on fitting out some of the yachts just prior to closing the doors in Britain.
Premium blue water cruising yachts. One hundred and fifty years of experience, coupled with unmatched excellence in design and manufacturing. It is qualities like these that have made Moody one of the most illustrious names in the sailing yacht world. Over many generations, Moody has developed an exemplary boat building culture culminating in ...
Tradition with a Twist: The Moody Aft Cockpit 41 wraps classical styling around a thoroughly modern underbody and comes up with a winner. Contributing to the secure feeling of the Moody Aft Cockpit 41 under sail are the wide, uncluttered side decks and the coamings that wrap around the back of the cockpit, behind the twin wheels. Billy Black.
Boat Review Forum. SailNet is a forum community dedicated to Sailing enthusiasts. Come join the discussion about sailing, modifications, classifieds, troubleshooting, repairs, reviews, maintenance, and more! ... We own and sail a Moody 425. We bought it in Greece and sailed the Med for a couple of years before crossing over to the Caribbean ...
Moody 33: The first production Moody is from the early 1970s and featured a pair of single berths in the aft cabin. The 33 pioneered what became for many years Moody's distinctive centre-cockpit layout and wide-beamed hull design, which was still unusual in Europe at the time. The boat featured a spacious saloon, with an unusually large ...
I've just dug out the YM review of the Moody 34, by JJ and AB, written after a gusty test sail, in flat seas, in 1983. As an ex-Moody 33 mk1 owner, I was very surprised to read their opinion on the 34's sailing performance eg rounding up unpredictably in gusts, and being generally unpleasant to windward.
The Moody 45DS brings to a monohull the approach used in many catamarans, placing the saloon and galley in the deck house and on the same level as the cockpit. Down below are three staterooms, two of which are essentially amidships, and two heads. Modular furniture components allow a degree of mix and match in customizing the arrangement.
Bob Perry reviews the Moody 54. By Bob Perry. June 11, 2003. Here's a nice big cruising boat designed for Moody by Bill Dixon - The Moody 54. The drawings show a rig with in-the-mast furling, so we can assume this design is aimed at carefree cruising. The D/L of this design is 201 and that's on the light side for a boat of this type.
The Moody 42 was designed for long-distance cruising, so she is solidly constructed and simply but stoutly rigged. Her high displacement and sail area/displacement ratio put her firmly in the cruiser bracket. Her displacement to waterline comparison is more favourable performance-wise than the earlier Moody 40, but still means she is stiff and ...
Check out this New 2025 Moody Decksaloon 54 for sale in Alameda, CA 94501. View this Cruisers and other Sail boats on boattrader.com. Check out this New 2025 Moody Decksaloon 54 for sale in Alameda, CA 94501. View this Cruisers and other Sail boats on boattrader.com ... Reviews. 4.9. Based on 374 reviews. Vann, South Carolina ...