Price vs Value of used Moody yachts

Not that it is particularly relevant, but I have just had my 31 year old moody31 professionally compounded and polished. It looks really good. The guy who did it said that he likes doing the "older boats" and that they can be done a dozen times due to the thickness of the fibreglass gel coat and that he cannot do that with modern boats.
 
birdseye said:
The old British yachts will have heavier hulls and more conservative designs than the lates imports.
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Not that old myth again! My newish Bavaria 37 weighs 7000kg, less 2080kg keel, so the hull weighs 4920kg. Take a similar sized "solidly built" Moody 376 - displacement 16250lbs less 6500lbs keel equals 9750lbs hull weight, which is 4420kg - half a ton lighter than my lightly built newer boat!

birdseye said:
But they will be old fashioned inside and like it or not , yachts age just like any other man made article.
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Very true.

birdseye said:
Against that, the hulls of modern boats might be lighter but they will be better made of better materials, and the insides will be more up to datre.
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And if they're heavier and made of better materials??
 
Little Grebe said:
The situation is a little more complicated than that as the reduced overhangs and wider sterns on more modern designs will mean there is more 'boat' for a given length leading to an increase in weight for any given layup.
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I might further complicate matters by pointing out that my Bavaria 37 actually has a narrower beam than the old Moody 376 I compared it with.
 
Yacht design has moved on and in some cases is better and some cases worse. Yacht manufacturing however has improved in leaps and bounds - gone are the cold damp sheds of British boatbuilding, the water in the resin that lead to so much of the osmosis problems and the lack of any proper vacuum impregnation and there's more wood in a modern AWB than in any British built MAB of the 80's and 90's.

But I dislike the modern bows that sit almost out of the water, the flat forefoot, the slappy fat stern; and in particular the ubiquitous lozenge shape, that in 10 years time will look as horribly dated as that awful drooped porpoise nose you see on 15 year old mobos. But more than anything I lament the lack of a modern wheelhouse yacht :)
 
I'm going to ask the guy for a weight measurement next time I'm lifted out. I wonder if the Moody v Bavaria displacement is comparing like with like. I know when I replace the seacocks that the hull was more than 1 inch thick, I've got two steel water tanks, 1 steel fuel tank etc etc. On the Beneteau the hull was a lot thinner and the tanks were all plastic. In a word, I dont beleive the Bavaria is the same weight as the Moody if they were measured on a like for like basis.
 
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