It was soooo busy at the Boat Show today.

[Concerto]

Today was very busy like yesterday, I never set foot off Concerto during the show. So far I estimate there have been about 200 onboard Concerto (I lost count yesterday within half an hour of the first visitor). Today one lady was stopped in her tracks and exclaimed "That's my dad's old boat!" She was the daughter of one of the original joint owners. Besides being shocked she was amazed at the condition Concerto is now in (like many other visitors). I have provided her with lots of photos and links to other things on Concerto and she has sent me some photos of her whilst in her dad's ownership.

Where is everyone in these photos? They were taken before any of you arrived. Bet you wish you could see the boats as easily as me.

 

[jac]

WEll i'm planning on attending on Thursday. - Hoping it will be reasonably quiet in the halls. Might have to pop down and see how your decks look and see if the masking tape was effective

 

[[70521]]

If I venture onto the pontoons on the 18th I'll come and say hello. I usually whizz the pontoons in about 5 mins as there is little to interest me there

 

[lustyd]

That's the most empty berths I've seen in a Solent marina for a long time!

 

[Quandary]

Westerly seem to have gifted their owners endless scope for restoration, Moody were not so generous, all mine ever needs is the occasional wipe with a duster.

 

[Tranona]

That is an interesting observation, but perhaps not quite fair. Your Moody dates from the tail end of production when design and construction had moved on to compete with the growing French and German competition. Things like more internal mouldings, better and more durable finishes, better systems and sail handling gear etc set them apart from boats built 10-25 years earlier - plus of course less time for things to go wrong.

Most of the popular Westerlys were from the 70's and 80's and built in a sort of cottage industry way, even if the factory was a big cottage! Actually the production Moodys from that era were not too different and also provide endless opportunities for refurbishment and upgrading as this example shows forums.ybw.com/index.php?threads/moody-28-resurrection-starting-at-the-deep-end-arrow-aztec.565891/

 

[allanc]

Any one been? Was it good? Much to see? Was it worth going?

 

[Tranona]

Two other threads running on the subject, one on PBO and one here. although the starting points are different there are lots of posts about what is there and what to see.

 

[allanc]

I should have looked first.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

The show can now make way for the army of retired yachties that underpin
the whole of the UK boating scene when every day is a Saturday.

Please be kind to us . Things take a little longer to understand.

 

[CJU]

Was Concerto one of the Westerly Sea School yachts? I think I did a course on Nocturne which was one of their boats.

 

[mrming]

I have one of the sea school Fulmars too - ours was Tango.

 

[Gixer]

When I went on Saturday I wanted to say hello Concerto. Every time I came past you were busy, I had to settle for shouting at the lady in the cockpit that I liked your videos LOL.

Spent time with Sven on the Hunter though (next door to you).

Hope the rest of your week goes well.

 

[ashtead]

Clearly less boats on the marina -I see from your photo that the Moody DS is moored alongside whereas when we were the showboat in 2015 we were stern to .

 

[laika]

Hoping it will be reasonably quiet in the halls.

I usually whizz the pontoons in about 5 mins as there is little to interest me there

From the other threads there is clearly some difference of perception but as I saw it on saturday the pontoons had a "normal" number of boats but the halls had far fewer exhibitors than normal with obvious big gaps. The visitor distribution reflected that with the pontoons busy but the halls quite quiet.

 

[chrishscorp]

Err in doors and I had to que them up to go on board Concerto on Sunday I can vouch Roger virtually never stopped.

Our Westerlys former owner purchased a Moody and has wished ever since that he had not, the smallest job means half the boat has to be dismantled, we are looking for a bigger cruiser it will be a Westerly

 

[Quandary]

Err in doors and I had to que them up to go on board Concerto on Sunday I can vouch Roger virtually never stopped.

Our Westerlys former owner purchased a Moody and has wished ever since that he had not, the smallest job means half the boat has to be dismantled, we are looking for a bigger cruiser it will be a Westerly

My comment was a bit tongue in cheek but having also owned two Sigmas (also built by Marine Projects) from the same era I regard Westerlys by comparison as marketed to those who like continuous maintenance.
Not sure about your comment on the difficulty of maintaining Moodys either, perhaps you could give me one or perhaps even two examples of the jobs which required 'half the boat to be dismantled'.

 

[chrishscorp]

My comment was a bit tongue in cheek but having also owned two Sigmas (also built by Marine Projects) from the same era I regard Westerlys by comparison as marketed to those who like continuous maintenance.
Not sure about your comment on the difficulty of maintaining Moodys either, perhaps you could give me one or perhaps even two examples of the jobs which required 'half the boat to be dismantled'.

Sorry no im too busy doing my headlining ?

 

[Concerto]

If I venture onto the pontoons on the 18th I'll come and say hello. I usually whizz the pontoons in about 5 mins as there is little to interest me there

Bet you spend more than 5 minutes on Concerto!

 

[PaulRainbow]

Generally speaking, if you take an earlyish Westerly (late 70s - early 80s) and a similarly aged Moody (of similar sizes), there isn't much to choose either way in terms of maintenance required. There also isn't much to choose in terms of build quality or ease of working on them. Some models of each make will have some poorly designed stuff and some hard to get to bits. Some models will have some horrible looking joinery etc.

Compare the Fulmar with a Moody 31, for instance, no comparison IMO, the Westerly is vastly superior.
Compare the Westerly Discus with the similarly sized Moody 346, the Discus is a class ahead (slight bias here, i have a Discus).
The Moody 376 compares very well with the Westerly equivalents.
Later Moodys had some really nice looking joinery, but are definitely harder to work on, as are pretty much any boats with fancier looking, glued together interiors.