Moody 64, MAISHA

Broker’s Comments

Moody 64 MAISHA was built in 2003, designed by Bill Dixon, combined with the quality and craftsmanship of Moody. She offers a huge amount of boat for the money – providing potential for extended passage making and the ideal holiday yacht – plus charter potential.

The Moody 64 is a remarkably powerful boat, fully capable of fast passage times across a range of conditions. Her good performance derives from the way her Bill Dixon hull shape balances the power of the underwater sections and lead keel with the tall, high aspect ratio, cutter rig. Despite her size she is easily sailed by two persons – in part courtesy of the hydraulically powered fully furling rig, self-tacking staysail and powered winches.

The well finished teak interior designed by Roel Degroot sleeps six guests in three guest cabins and two crew in a separate forward crew cabin – plus a pilot berth midships.

The vessel has been constantly well maintained and has a very full inventory – including generator, air-conditioning, bow-thruster, water-maker and more. The yacht had a new teak deck installed in Turkey winter 2018-19, also under the previous ownership during winter 2020 – spring 2021 she had some general refitting and improvement with, new headlining throughout, new Raymarine instruments, new deck hatches to the aft cabin, and a new liferaft. Also, smaller details such as refurbishing panels in the aft cabin, reconditioning of vang and Selden headsail furlers, reconditioning the hydraulic pack, reconditioning the toilets, and more…

Purchased by the current owner in summer 2021, MAISHA has benefitted hugely from extensive upgrades and improvements – including (but not limited to) the following:

• Replaced all sails 2023 (by Elvstrom Superyacht).
• Replaced all key running rigging 2023.
• Added bowsprit, bobstay, and gennaker 2023.
• Replaced day tank 2023.
• Replaced refrigeration compressors.
• Replaced cockpit fridge compressor and renovated cockpit table.
• Replaced batteries 2022/23.
• Replaced invertor and battery chargers 2022.
• Replaced entire air conditioning system 2023.
• Replaced bimini and sprayhood, modified and enlarged design.
• New tender 2023.
• New 20hp Yamaha outboard 2024.
• Added new watermaker 2023.
• Added air compressor (for inflatable toys, not scuba) to lazarette.

Under the current ownership MAISHA has been managed by a professional captain.

MAISHA is British registered as a “pleasure yacht”. VAT (IVA) was paid in Spain by the former ownership in November 2017.

Note

The yacht was previously a “small commercial vessel” and a new owner could quite easily bring her back to commercial status if they wished.

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General Comments (courtesy of Darrell Nicholson, Cruising World, 2004)

The Moody 64 is what Dixon calls “a crossover boat,” one that, through the efficient use of power-furling gear and winches, is designed to be managed by two very capable sailors but is big enough to attract those who expect to have family, friends, or crew aboard for more than just a few days. With a high-aspect masthead cutter rig, a fine bow, minimal wetted surface, and 22,000 pounds of ballast concentrated in a bulb at the bottom of its standard 8-foot-6-inch fin keel, the Moody 64 doesn’t conceal her aspirations for fast passages.

In the 2002 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), hull number one smoked a fleet full of long-legged Oysters and Swans to win Class A and take fourth overall. She covered the 2,680-mile transatlantic course from Gran Canaria to St. Lucia in just less than 13 1/2 days– that’s 200 miles per day.

The Moody’s hull is hand-laid fibreglass cored with inch-thick end-grain balsa bedded in a polyester bonding paste. Solid laminate is used wherever there are through-hull penetrations and at the stem, keel, and skeg. A complex mix of glassed-in floors and stringers in the keel and main bilge area and in structural bulkheads and chainplate supports help stiffen the hull. Bonded-in tray mouldings also provide support in the forward and after sections. The deck is both bonded and mechanically fastened to an inward-turning flange on the hull. Monel rivets driven through an aluminium backing plate in the flange serve as the mechanical fasteners. The deck-edge bulwark is then fitted with a laminated teak caprail. A full-length rub-rail protects the hull, which in the case of Maisha is white gel coat. Meticulous computer-assisted design (CAD) engineering and a long background in streamlined production give the builder, Princess Yachts, the ability to produce eight to 10 of these boats each year.

The Moody carries most of its 17-foot beam from the amidships station all the way to the aft sections. The beam allows plenty of room for twin 42-inch wheels, each helm with its own bench seat and padded hip rest. The arrangement not only gives you your pick of leeward or windward steering but also opens a clear passage to the bathing platform aft.

The cockpit is divided by a small step between the higher steering stations aft and the lower, ample, main-cockpit area. The forward area seats six comfortably around a permanent drop-leaf table that has well-placed stainless-steel grab rails.

The rig geometry uses triple aft-swept spreaders with cap shrouds, upper and lower intermediates, and aft lower shrouds. The cap and lowers lead to a single deck fitting inboard near the raised cabin top, allowing easy fore-and-aft passage on either side. The load is transmitted from this fitting to a rugged, encapsulated plywood web; the web, in turn, is tied to the grid like floor structure and main bulkheads.

The foredeck is clear and uncluttered. Maisha has a lovely sun bathing area with cushions on the foredeck, and a new “shade tent”.

A huge, 36-inch-diagonal hatch just aft of the inner forestay leads down to the crew cabin and allows for quick launching and stowing of spinnakers or storm sails. The Lewmar 3000 vertical anchor winch serves twin stainless-steel rollers and feeds into a large, self-draining, divided chain locker. Additional storage lies behind the cockpit in a wide and deep lazarette that’s essentially a seagoing garage. Also aft is a dedicated locker for a life raft. Stainless-steel dinghy davits are standard (but Maisha has the Kevlar ones, which were lighter – and more costly!).