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Moody 54 (2000) for sale in La Coruna, Spain

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The Moody 54, designed by Bill Dixon and constructed by Marine Projects in the UK in 2000, is available for sale in La Coruna, Spain. This 16.72-metre vessel is renowned for its suitability for blue water cruising and is currently berthed with a paid berth until 2025. The boat accommodates seven people in three cabins, with an additional pilot berth, and features two heads including an owner's cabin with ensuite facilities. Constructed with hand-laid GRP and incorporating a balsa-cored sandwich for superior stiffness and insulation, the Moody 54 has recently undergone extensive upgrades. Notable improvements include new stainless steel standing rigging and running rigging installed in 2022, a Roly Tasker mainsail added in 2023, and upgraded amenities such as full-sized washing machines and updated Hansgrohe taps. The vessel features a centre cockpit design for comfort and safety, with an array of modern electronics and navigation aids ensuring it's well-equipped for extended cruising adventures.

General information
Make/model
Moody 54
Category
Used sail boat for sale
Price
Tax / VAT status
Paid / Included
Name of boat
Blue Pearl
Year
2000
Designer
Bill Dixon
Length overall
16.72 metres
Length waterline
14.02 metres
Beam
4.85 metres
Draft
2.26 metres
Displacement
20,018 kg
Hull
GRP
Keel
Fin Keel
Location
La Coruna, Spain

About this Moody 54

English

The Moody 54 CC is designed by Bill Dixon and built in the UK by Marine Projects. These boats are ideal for blue water cruising and spending extensive time aboard; indeed the current owners have just completed a Caribbean circuit encompassing the ARC.

Accommodation for 7 with 6 berths in 3 cabins and a pilot berth. There are two heads including the owners cabin with ensuite.

"Blue Pearl" benefits from extensive upgrades and refurbishment during her current ownership.

She is berthed in Marina Coruna, Northern Spain with the berth paid for till 2025.

Hull, deck & superstructure / General

Dimensions / General

- LOA - 16.72m

- LWL - 14.02m

- Beam - 4.85m

- Draft - 2.26m

- Displacement - 20,018kg.

- Ballast - 6,786kg.

- Designer - Bill Dixon

- Builder - Marine Projects (Plymouth).

- Year - 2000

- CE category - A for 16 persons.

Hull, deck & superstructure

Hull

- Hand laid GRP construction with isophthalic gelcoat backed by initial lay up of powder bound mat and isophthalic resin.

- Balsa cored sandwich construction for increased panel stiffness, insulation and optimum weight distribution.

- Hull stiffened by bonded in bulkheads plus frames and stringers.

- Underwater sections stiffened by utilising an Aramid (Kevlar) laminate to increase strength and impact resistance.

Maintenance

- The hull was sanded back to bare gelcoat and 2 coats of epoxy applied prior to antifouling in 2021.

- Last antifouled 2023.

- Bronze seacocks and skin fittings all new 2021. Bonded back to main anode. Wooden bungs attached.

Deck

- The deck is laid in Teak and Balsa cored with plywood backing pads to support deck fittings.

- The deck edge incorporates a raised bulwark with teak cap rail.

Keel & rudder

- Lead / antimony ballast deep fin keel, fin keel.

- GRP semi balanced rudder with stainless steel stock, mounted on half depth skeg with bronze heel fitting.

Interior & accommodation

- Fitted out with Teak and Cherry wood floors and furniture.

- Lee cloths are fitted to berths.

- Overhead LED lighting, with red lights in the saloon, galley, chart table area and corridors for night time sailing. New 2022.

- 230v sockets throughout the boat, all with USB charging points. New 2022.

- Full sized washing machine.

Forepeak area sealed from forward cabin with a watertight crash bulkhead.

- Chain locker with access through foredeck hatch.

- Chain locker drains directly overboard.

- Watertight bulkhead.

Forward Cabin

- Island double berth with large storage lockers beneath.

- Hanging lockers to port and starboard.

- Overhead lockers to port and starboard.

- Opening deck hatch.

Forward Jack & Jill heads, shared with the twin bed guest cabin.

- Finished in attractive, wipe clean laminate surfaces.

- Corian countertop with integral wash hand basin with pressurised hot and cold water via a mixer tap.

- Manual marine toilet.

- Separate shower stall.

- Electric waste water pump draining pumping to grey water tank with automatic pump.

- Soap & hand cream dispensers and a toilet brush holder.

- Teak grating in shower area.

- Stowage locker.

- Opening deck hatch.

- New Hansgrohe taps and showers 2022.

Starboard Guest Cabin

- Twin bunks, with stowage space beneath the lower berth.

- Large hanging locker.

- Vanity desk.

- Opening hatch.

Saloon

- Large curved settee to starboard side with extending leaf dining table.

- Generous stowage space beneath settee.

- Tankage beneath the saloon floor.

- 2 seater sofa to port.

- Forward of the port sofa is a large cocktail locker.

- Outboard of settee and sofa are overhead lockers with hull windows between.

- Large fore and aft and forward facing saloon windows.

- Opening deck hatches and Dorade vents.

Navigation Station

- Large forward facing chart table with chart stowage space beneath the lid.

- Draws in the pedestal.

- Chart table seat covered in water resistant covering.

- Wet hanging locker aft of chart table seat.

- Ships electrical distribution panel is sited here along with instrumentation and ships system controls.

Galley

- Large secure U shaped galley.

- Twin sinks with pressurised hot and cold water system.

- Hansegrohe blue pure mixer tap with second waterway for filtered water. New 2022.

- Electric waste water pump draining pumping to grey water tank with automatic pump.

- Corian worktop with fiddles.

- Generous work top space with deeply fiddled edges. Stowage lockers for food, crockery, pots and pans plus cutlery drawers.

- Electric sockets and USB ports.

- Large front loading Frigoboat Stainless Steel refrigerator. New 2021 with new keel cooler 2021.

- Separate Stainless Steel freezer. Refurbished, re-gassed and new keel cooler 2021.

- Gimballed Force 10, 4 burner cooker complete with crash bar.

- Galley strap. New 2023.

- Panasonic microwave combi oven.

Starboard Passage Cabin

- Accessed aft of navigation area.

- Single berth with fixed central access lee board.

- Full sized washing machine beneath.

- Opening portlight.

Aft Stateroom

- Island double berth, with storage space beneath.

- Lockers overhead to port and starboard.

- Generous hanging locker space, vanity units with storage space and dresser unit at the forward bulkhead.

- Opening deck hatch, portlights and hull topsides window.

En-suite heads

- En-suite to the aft stateroom only.

- The compartment is finished in attractive wipe clean laminate.

- Separate shower stall.

- Electric waste water pump draining pumping to grey water tank with automatic pump.

- Manual marine toilet.

- Corian countertop with integral wash hand basin with pressurised hot and cold water via a mixer tap.

- Soap & hand cream dispensers and a toilet brush holder.

- Electric shaving socket.

- Opening portlight.

- New Hansgrohe taps and showers 2022.

General specification

Deck / Deck equipment

Deck

The deck is secured with a full wrap round stainless steel tubular guard rail with a lower guard wire. Aft, the rail has a solid Teak capping and there are teak corner seats and an opening stern section. This offers ultimate security when traversing the decks.

One of the key features is the super safe and comfortable center cockpit. Set out with pedestal mounted wheel steering and fixed GRP folding leaf table.

- Dorade vents with stainless steel crash protectors which also act as safe hand holds.

- Teak grab rails on the coachroof sides and aft raised deck.

- Passarelle, refurbished 2022 including new Teak deck.

- Bathing platform with additional swim ladder.

- Hot and cold stern shower. New 2022.

- Stainless steel outboard derrick.

Deck gear / equipment

- Twin bow rollers.

- Large offset anchor locker.

- Lewmar V6 electric anchor windlass with warping drum. Operated via remote control and from the helm position. New 2021.

- Rocna 40, main anchor. New 2021.

- 60m of chain.

- 25kg Delta type secondary anchor, re-galvanised in 2022. 10m of chain and 40m of 8 plait 18mm rope.

- Fenders and mooring warps.

- Fender step and fender ladder step.

- Jerry cans for spare diesel, petrol and water.

Winches

- All winches serviced 2022.

- 2 x Lewmar 48st halyard/coachroof winches.

- 2 x Lewmar 64st primary winches.

- 1 x Lewmar 48st 1 x Lewmar 40st, 1 x Lewmar 34st.

- Mast mounted Lewmar 48st.

- Mast mounted Lewmar 40st

Rig, rigging & sails

- Selden keel stepped, triple spreader mast.

- Masthead, cutter rigged.

- In-mast mainsail furling with new manual furling winch 2024. This can also be run from an electric coachroof winch.

- Selden boom.

- Twin spinnaker poles. Vertically mounted on the mast.

- All spars spray painted white in 2022.

- New stainless steel standing rigging in 2022.

- Selden Furlex manual roller reefing for the foresail.

- Selden Furlex manual roller reefing for the staysail. Running to a self tacking track.

- These furlers are manual but can be run from one of the electric winches.

- Navtec hydraulic backstay.

- New running rigging 2022. All halyards, running lines and sheets.

Sails

- Roly Tasker mainsail. New 2023.

- Roly Tasker Yankee. New 2023.

- Quantum self tacking staysail. 2016.

- Asymmetric cruising chute. New launch bag 2024.

- Sails have been serviced Aug 2024.

Engine, propulsion & machinery

- Yanmar 4JH2-UT(B)E (100hp 73.6kw) 4 cylinder turbocharged diesel engine with shaft drive.

- Stainless steel prop shaft and coupling new 2021.

- 3 bladed feathering Maxprop. Original spare prop.

- Gator, stainless steel rope cutter. New 2021.

- Single lever Morse engine controls mounted on the steering pedestal.

- Engine hours approx. 3900.

- Engine blower new 2023.

- Last service January 2024.

Generator

- Kohlar 11kva.

Bowthruster

- 10hp Sleipner Sidepower bow thruster mounted in integrally moulded GRP tunnel. Operated from a joystick control mounted on steering pedestal. 

Electronics & navigation equipment

Instrumentation

- Raymarine Axiom 12" chart plotter at chart table. New 2022.

- Electronic charts covering - South Coast of UK to Cape Verdes, Azores, Canary Islands, Eastern Med to Corsica and Sardinia.

- Raymarine Axion 12" chart plotter under sprayhood. New 2022.

- Remote chart SIM reader. New 2022

- Raymarine Quantum radar. New 2022.

- Raymarine STi50 log/depth. New 2022.

- Raymarine STi60 wind speed / wind direction / close hauled. New 2022.

- Raymarine Tridata.

- Navtex ICS Nav6. New 2021.

- Lewmar magnetic compass. New 2022.

Self steering systems

- Hydrovane wind steering. New 2023.

- 2 x Raymarine ST 8002 hydraulic smart autopilot's. Set up for redundancy.. 2 separate hydraulic quadrant rams, 2 separate control computers. A control head and display.

Communication

- SSB radio Icom M80 with copper ribbon to grounding plate. Backstay aerial and antenna tuner.

- SSB grounding plate - Super Guest Dynaplate Bronze grounding plate. Equivalent to 100sqft of copper foil. acid cleaned 2021.

- Standard Horizon Matrix GX2000 DSC VHF radio. New 2023. With independent GPS antenna. New 2024.

- Standard Horizon HX 890 hand held DSC VHF radio. New 2022.

- Sailor Cobham Fleet one satellite phone. New 2021.

- Iridium 9555 hand held satellite phone.

- Redbox modem. New 2021.

Electrical

- 230v shore power.

- Ships 12/24v systems.

- Ring main.

Batteries

- Main battery bank - 8 x Victron 165 Ah batteries giving a total of 660Ah at 24 volts. New 2023.

- Mastervolt 12v/270Ah engine start battery. New 2021.

- 2 x Mastervolt 12v/270Ah (in series) emergency battery bank. New 2021.

Charging & power systems

- Engine and generator driven alternators.

- Eclectic Energy D400 wind turbine.

- Solar charging via 4 x panels providing approx. 450 watts. Mounted on a stainless steel gantry.

- Xantex solar panel controller.

- Victron 12v engine battery charger. New 2022.

- Victron Skylla-1 24v, 100amp charger. New 2023.

- Victron DC-DC charger for emergency battery bank. New 2022.

- Victron BMV 712 smart battery monitor. New 2022.

- Victron Global link 520 remote monitor. New 2024.

- Victron 3000 inverter.

Entertainment

- LG smart TV in the saloon. New 2023.

- LG smart TV with DVD player in the master cabin.

- Kenwood KDC BT48OU radio/CD player. New 2022.

- Fitted stereo speakers.

Tankage & systems

Tankage

- Water - 955L - Plastic.

- Fuel - 682L - Aluminium

- Black water - 170L with a macerator and deck extraction. There is a gauge in the forward heads. New 2022.

- Grey water - 11L all grey water drains to this tank an pumped out on demand by a float switch.

Systems

- Cruisair SMX11 10-32 degrees air conditioning system. This is also reverse cycle so produces heat when required.

- Eberspacher central heating. Not fully installed, no boiler unit. All pipework, matric blowers and vents installed.

- Sea recovery Aqua Whisper 600 water maker. Currently not working.

- 12v fans in master cabin and twin cabin.

- GRP Gas locker. New in 2022. Will fit 2 x 11kg bottles. gas bottles.

- Regulator and flexi hoses new in 2023.

- 2 x 11kg Stainless Steel gas bottles.

- Additional 11kg bottle. New 2024.

Canvas work & protection

- GRP hard sprayhood with windows.

- Bimini (Beige).

- Large sun canopy (Beige).

- Cockpit cushions (Beige).

Safety gear & equipment

- Ocean safety 6 person offshore life raft with hydrostatic release. New 2022.

- Full set of offshore flares. New 2022.

- Emergency tiller.

- EPIRB GME MT003 FG. New 2022.

- 5 x fire extinguishers in cabins. New 2021.

- Automatic fire extinguisher in the engine room. Serviced 2023.

- Fire blanket at the galley. New 2022.

- 24v automatic bilge pump with float switch

- 2 x manual bilge pumps. One on deck and one in the saloon. New 2023..

- Wooden bungs for the skin fittings.

Additional equipment which is part of the specification

- Zodiac Cadet 290 RIB. 2016, needs re-tubing.

- Mercury 9.9hp outboard with fuel tank. Both new 2021.

- Small dinghy anchor, chain and warp.

Paperwork

- Receipts for all major works.

- Ships provenance checked.

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Propulsion
Engine
Yanmar 4JH2-UT(B)E (100hp / 73.6kw) 4 cylinder turbocharged diesel engine.
Engine hours
3900
Fuel
Diesel
Fuel capacity
682 litres
Accommodation
Number of cabins
4
Number of berths
7
Passenger capacity
16
Drinking water capacity
955 litres

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice. General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as life rafts, Epirbs, fire extinguishers and flares etc. are usually personal to the current owner(s) and if being left on-board as part of the sale of a used vessel may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet a new owner's specific needs. Whilst we make best effort to obtain documentation from Vendors it is advisable to check what is available before travelling to view or making an offer.

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