Welcome to the MOA
We are a friendly bunch – come along to one of the events listed by our branches above, use the Info Forums for your technical queries or to sell your boat and equipment.
Latest News
2025 is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the MOA. A number of events have been planned throughout the year to mark the occasion. Keep checking back on the website for more details on those!
The MOA 2026 AGM weekend will take place at the Atlantic Hotel, Liverpool from Friday 6th March to Sunday 8th March 2026. The AGM itself will take place on Saturday 7th March at 16:00. Click here for more details and hotel booking
Technical articles wanted for Compass! If you can contribute, more information can be found here.
The Winter 2025 edition of Compass is the latest issue and is available for download for registered members.
The current membership fee is £26 per year (increasing to £28 from Sep 2026). All members are most welcome to participate in activities across all branches, not just their chosen primary branch!
MOA Burgees are now available to purchase again – you can buy one via the MOA shop.
Compass Winter 2025
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Please Help Run the Association
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
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.
Commodore
Neil O’Connor
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Upcoming Events for 2026
Note: not all branch events are shown here.
Please see the individual branch pages for the details of all branch events.
Date | Branch | Event |
|---|---|---|
| During period 22nd - 31st May 2026 | East Coast | Rally to River Deben |
| Fri 19th - Sun 21st June 2026 | East Coast | Rally To River Orwell and Midsummer Lunch |
| Sat 11th - Sun 12th July 2026 | East Coast | Rally To River Medway |
| Sat 1st - Sun 2nd August 2026 | East Coast | Rally To River Blackwater |
| Sat 29th - Mon 31st August 2026 | East Coast | Rally To River Crouch |
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AGM 2026
The 2026 AGM and prizegiving will be held in the Atlantic Hotel, Liverpool, at 16:00 on the 7th March 2026, followed by dinner and a guest speaker. The AGM weekend is from Friday 6th March to Sunday 8th March. Click below for more details. The hotel discount rate is only available to 29 December 2025
We hold a lot of information about Moody yachts, from electronic copies of original design drawings, handbooks and manuals for equipment to our extensive collection of photographs. Members can access this information and also ask questions in our forums to tap into the knowledge of over 2000 members. Whilst this is only available to members (see here for membership options) , non members can view the for sale/wanted forums.
Moody Archives
The old Moody website carried brief details of all their boats. We saved it!100,000 Items about Moodys
Technical, For Sale/Wanted, General Information Exchange
Moody Picture Library
David Moody kindly gave the MOA the remaining publicity and layout photographs he kept from before the Moody Group was sold. We’ve put them in the Media Section of the Information Exchange for members. Click here to go there