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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  will be the 40th anniversary of the founding of the MOA. A number of  events are being planned throughout the year to mark the  occasion. These will be posted on this site when details are finalised.

– The MOA 2025 AGM took place in Portsmouth at the Royal Maritime Hotel from 28th to 30th March.  The AGM report can be found by clicking here:  AGM 2025

– The Winter 2024 edition of Compass is now available for download to members

– MOA Burgees are now available to purchase again – you can buy one via the MOA shop

Compass Winter 2024

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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

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.

 

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Commodore

Paul Woodward  writes

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I’m now halfway into my two-year term as the MOA Commodore and enjoying working with you all in recognising the 40th 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

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MOA Group MMSI no 023200031
MOA Group MMSI number is 023200031

If you have installed a new VHF Radio, it will almost certainly have DSC facilities and you will have an MMSI number. You may wish to store our group MMSI above to call any fellow members in the area. The MOA was one of the first associations to register a group MMSI number.

Upcoming Events for 2025

Note: not all branch events are shown here.
Please see the individual branch pages for the details of all branch events.

Date

Branch

Event

28 March - 30 MarchMOAMOA National AGM @ Portsmouth
Saturday 26th AprilEast CoastFitting Out Lunch @ TBC
Fri 2nd - 4th May 2025ScotlandOpening muster and 40th anniversary celebration. Tarbert Harbour
Fri 2 May - Sunday 4 MaySolentTown Key Southampton
Fri 23 May -26 MaySolentBucklers Hard - Beaulieu
June 3rd – 5th 2025France AtlantiqueLoctudy 25
Fri 13 June - Sunday 15 JuneSolentMarchwood
Fri 27 June -Sunday 29 JuneSolentPoole Quay
Fri 26 July - Sun 28 JulySolentHamble Dash
Fri 8 August - Sunday 10 AugustSolentBembridge
15 August 2025France AtlantiqueArzal Fest Noz
Fri 22 August-Monday 25 AugustSolentLymington Dan Bran Pontoon
Sat 26-Sun 27 SeptSolentYarmouth
Fri 17 Oct - Sun 19 OctSolentEast Cowes
Sunday 26th October 2025East CoastLaying Up Lunch @ Royal Corinthian Yacht Club

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Members Blogs

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AGM 2025

blank  The 2025 AGM and prizegiving was held held in Portsmouth March 30 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.

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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

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 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

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