1982 bilge keel Moody 29 "Mooncresta" for sale - £10,000 |
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NOW SOLD |
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Builder |
Moody Yachts/Marine Projects, Plymouth |
LOA |
29' 8" |
Sail area |
486 sq ft main and genoa |
LWL |
25' 0" |
Rig |
sloop |
Beam |
10' 6" |
Cabins |
2 |
Draught |
3' 6" bilge keel |
Berths |
6/7 |
Displacement |
7,300 lbs |
Engine |
Bukh diesel |
Ballast |
2,750 lbs |
BHP |
20 |
Keel type |
Iron bilge keels with transom-hung rudder |
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◦ New, fully battened and loose footed mainsail and stack pack last year
◦ Cruising chute and snuffer
◦ Genoa end 2019 in good condition
◦ Dynema running rigging 2024
◦ Genoa pulleys all replaced with ball raced ones.
◦ Bukh DV20 twin cylinder diesel converted to fresh water cooling in 2010, Bowman heat exchanger, high output alternator. Gori 2-blade folding prop
◦ Large calorifier with hot shower in cockpit
◦ New curtains
◦ Electric flushing Blake’s Lavac heads with Whale Gulper toilet pump
◦ Stainless steel fuel tank
◦ Lots of spares including high pressure fuel pump, low pressure pump, starter motor, alternator, complete spare engine included if wanted.
◦ Twin Sterling lithium domestic batteries with AGM starter battery, coupled with Sterling battery to battery charger. If you don’t like lithium batteries I can swap them for new AGM lead acid batteries.
◦ 100 Watt solar panel with Victron Bluetooth MPPT controller
◦ Victron BMV 712 battery monitor
◦ Navico tillerpilot
◦ Chartplotter
◦ Tacktick wind instrument
◦ VHF Radio
◦ Advansea depth/speed instrument
◦ Manson Supreme anchor and approx 50 metres chain (CQR available too)
◦ Eberspacher Airtronic heater and 7 day diagnostic timer
◦ 2 burner, grill and oven cooker with flame failure devices on all burners and spark ignition.
◦ LED tricolour and anchor masthead lights replaced 2024
◦ Victronix combined masthead antenna and wind direction indicator
◦ Deck paint redone 2025
◦ All stanchion bases replaced with stainless steel ones
◦ Treated for hull blisters before I purchased her and still has VCTar epoxy coating under antifouling
◦ Survey available from 5 years ago |
Built from 1980 to 1983, the Moody 29 was
very much a smaller version of the earlier and very successful
Moody 30, itself a shrunk Moody 33. The looks make her unmistakably
one of the Primrose designs for Moody, sharing the trademark
flared bow and dark blue topside stripe, which helps to disguise
the high freeboard. She was designed as a six to seven berth
boat, the seventh being achieved by converting one side of
the saloon to a double, and regarding the aft berth as another
double.
* Plan at right shows fin keel - "Mooncresta" has twin keels. |
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I have owned Mooncresta for the last 15 years, cruising all over the South Coast as the children grew up. The last couple of years I have invested significantly in her and cruised to Ireland in 2023 and The Azores in 2024. |
Now looking to cruise further afield it’s time to change. She is antifouled and ready to launch / sail.
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Owners photos |
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Can be viewed ashore at Marchwood, Southampton. |
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The saloon has a fold-down table, seen here stowed against the bulkhead |
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Forecabin |
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Looking aft from forecabin through heads |
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The heads compartment is the whole width of the hull, with heads and basin on opposite sides. |
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Quarterberth aft of chart table |
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