It is lots of fun running the Association.  We need volunteers to fill roles and support the General Committee.

If you would like to find out more, please email the Commodore

commodore@moodyowners.org

If you have a specialist skill, for example public relations, why not offer us a little of your expertise?

It is lots of fun and you make friends.

I’m now halfway into my two-year term as the MOA Commodore and enjoying working with you all in recognising the 40^th anniversary of the founding of the association. As you can see elsewhere on the website, members from around the UK as well as the Netherlands, Norway, and Ireland joined us at our recent AGM in Portsmouth to kick off the celebrations in style.

As our Membership Registrar reported at the AGM, the Association is in great shape with well over 2,000 members across the globe. There are, though, still other Moody owners who are not members. So please check your online Membership Handbook when you are out and see another yacht. If it is not listed, have a chat with the crew and see if you can recruit them. At worst you may have a good discussion or make a new sailing acquaintance.

The 2025 Handbook, it is now available (members only) to download here.

You will have noticed that your renewal notice asks you to use direct debit in future for making your subscription payments. This method saves us considerable time and money in collecting subscriptions, particularly if they are increased. While we recognise that this is not possible for our overseas members (who can use the self service portal instead), we now ask all UK members to pay by direct debit and cancel their existing standing orders.

In a recent membership survey, respondents told us that they particularly value the information available to them on this site. Wherever you are in the world, you’ll find information and active discussions in the Info Forums about boats just like yours as well as many other topics on cruising and sailing in general.

Compass is a superb publication envied by other yachting associations. You can see a PDF version of the latest issue here on the website if you don’t have a hard copy to hand. To keep it like this Ruth, our Editor, needs copy.  I know it can be daunting to write something for publication, but the editorial team can help, but only if they have something to work with. You all have experiences on your Moodys, good, bad, exciting, frightening, enlightening. Share them with the rest of us so we can learn, marvel and enjoy what you have done.

Paul Woodward

Commodore