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Moody S38

£75,000
Moody S38 for sale

Year

1996

LOA

39' 0"

Beam

12' 11"

Draught

4' 11"

Keel type

Bulbed fin

Engine

Volvo diesel

HP

39

The Moody S38 is one of the later and more modern production designs for Moody by Bill Dixon, aiming at better sailing performance than many earlier Moody models. It is an aft-cockpit yacht, unlike most of the larger Moodys which are centre cockpit. This 1996 example has been in the same ownership for 16 years, and is extremely well equipped with a very comprehensive inventory. She is for sale now only because of the owner's health issues. This is the shallow keel "Owners" version.
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While the Moody name traditionally indicated a fairly spacious but not especially fast cruiser, a few of their later designs were aimed at buyers wanting a bit more performance, and were clearly aimed at competing with the French designs becoming popular in the UK at the time. The Moody S31 and S38 were the two designs they produced for a number of years in the late 1990s.

The Moody S38 was designed by Bill Dixon, and was sold with either deep or shoal draught fin keels and masthead or fractional rig, the fractional rig examples being designated "Sport" with deep keel and a taller mast. The accommodation could have either a very large single aft cabin, or twin aft cabins with smaller berths.

This yacht for sale is the standard cruising version with masthead rig, shoal keel and the single aft cabin layout. As with all the "production" Moodys, the yachts were built and fitted out for Moodys by Marine Projects in Plymouth, who now operate as Princess Yachts. Around 60 Moody S38s were built in total. During this period Moody were also building and selling the older design Moody 38 centre-cockpit cruiser. The S38 was actually slightly beamier than the centre-cockpit Moody 38, with beam carried further aft, allowing a big aft cabin to be created without the raised coachroof of the older "cruisier" Moody 38 design.

'Yachting Monthly' report the design is ".... Above all she is a good all-rounder, capable of taking families offshore in safety or just pottering along the coastline in comfort."

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Inventory:

Engine details

Volvo MD2040 1,500cc three cylinder diesel, freshwater cooled, run 1833 hours

Fuel tank capacity

182 litres

Propeller

Two bladed on Saildrive with Ambassador ropestripper

Batteries

110AH engine start battery and 2 x 105AH services batteries new 2021

Battery charging /electrics

Engine alternator, shorepower battery charger, two solar panels and Rutland wind charger with Adverc controller.

Sails and deck equipment

Rig details

Masthead sloop rig, Selden spars and rod kicker. S?S standing rigging all dated from 2019 except forestay from 2013.

Mainsail

Crusader laminate mainsail with 3 reefs and sail cover

Genoa

Roller genoa

Genoa furling

Furlex

Spinnakers

Four spinnaker: two symmetrical and two asymmetric

Trysail

Orange trysail - unused

Heavy weather jib

Heavy jib - set on removable inner stay

Storm jib

Orange storm jib - unused - sets on removable inner stay

Primary winches

2 x Lewmar 48 self-tailing

Secondary winches

2 x Lewmar 44

Halliard winches

2 x Lewmar 30 self-tailing on coachroof

Bower anchor

35 lb Manson supreme with 45 metres chain and 45 metres warp

Kedge anchors

Fortress FX23 with 2 metres chain and 100 metres warp

Anchor windlass

Lofrans Cayman 1000 electric windlass

Steering

Wheel

Autopilot

Raymarine EVO 400 - new 2022

Steering compass

Plastimo Olympic 135 on binnacle

Warps & fenders

4 warps and 5 fenders

Miscellaneous

Full cockpit canopy, cockpit table

Navigation Equipment and instruments

Radar

B&G 3G radar

GPS/Chartplotter

B&G Zeus T7 at helm, also B&G Vulcan 7 under sprayhood, and third B&G plotter at chart table. Navionics UK/Europe charting.

Log/speed

Raymarine i-60 Speed, also B&G Triton

Depth sounder

Raymarine i-60 Depth

Windspeed/direction

Raymarine i-60 Wind

Other instruments

Raymarine i-60 Closehauled display, B&G Triton Speed/Depth and Garmin GMI-10 multi display

VHF radio

Standard Horizon GX1500 with DSC

VHF radio (handheld)

Standard Horizon HX851E with GPS and DSC

Satphone

Iridium Beam RST100 (account needed to use)

Safety/emergency equipment

Liferaft

Adec Arimar 9650-1 valise liferaft 6 man, new 2019, serviced to 2022 only.

Lifebuoy

2 x horseshoe with floating lights and danbuoy

MOB equipment

Lifesling

Radar reflector

Mast mounted Echomax

Bilge pumps

2 x manual pumps (cockpit and saloon) and 2 x electric pumps

Miscellaneous

4 x fire extinguishers plus auto extinguisher in engine space

Interior

Cabin layout

Forecabin, forward heads, saloon, aft heads, aft cabin.

Cabin heating

Eberspacher D4 blown hot air diesel heating

Berths

6

Water tank capacity

296 litres

Cooker

Smev 2-burner, grill and oven

Coolbox

Coolbox with Dometic CU-55 refrigeration

Heads

2 x Jabsco. 40 litre holding tank in forward heads

Miscellaneous

Dinghy

* Available by separate negotiation

Outboard

* Available by separate negotiation

Legs

Set of collapsible yacht legs from The Yacht Leg Company in storage bags - see photos here and here. The hull has the mounting plates fitted.



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