Price vs Value of used Moody yachts

[dom]

Regarding whether the boat yard workers know their job is a red herring and may apply to those yards that use individual sticks to prop a boat up and a small number of boats to attend to. Dry sailing yards (thousand boats in the Ionian) launch and haul six days a week most of the year. How on earth you expect a boat yard worker to know the position of all bulkheads on all boats is not practical considering the enormous variety of size and construction. They have enough to worry about regarding props, outboard shafts, and impellers to spend time searching through a database about the position of the bulkheads. The (Bavaria) hulls that split were propped in cradles These cradles have very limited adjustment and are positioned for security in high winds and a possible earthquake. The boat "trailers" used to launch the boats have their support chocks variable to a degree but again the position is elated to security and balance.

If one wants complete protection against errantly placed hull supports a liner is going to outperform conventional ribs every day of the week. That said, all sorts of boats are damaged in yards every year; only the insurers will have the complete stats and it's a bit misleading to try and draw inferences from the odd anecdotal tale here and there.

 

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Never heard of one with osmosis .... The other two had serious pox issues .... Mine had osmosis when I bought her and the people I used to sort it said they have repaired a few Moody's with the same problem ..... At one time or another I've heard every marque declared as osmosis free, and if not the marque a statement like "they had problems with early boats but mines a later one and later ones don't get osmosis" ..... Although there may be some, osmosis isn't a regular problem with the later boats.

Yesterday at my marina, peeled and drying: -

At least this one has an owner who wants to spend money, there are another two older models languishing at the back of the yard, one really is a bare hull but the other looks sound, such a shame really. It's at Kip Marina.