1989 Moody 346

The Moody 346 is one of those all time greats. Superb accommodation with a full owners suite aft and great sailing characteristics. "Lola" is in excellent condition inside and out with a good rounded specification.

Lots of upgrades and new kit over the last 5 years, all professionally installed. Including new standing rigging, guard wires & seacocks in 2025.

This is one not to miss.

Dimensions

• LOA - 10.52m
• LWL - 8.51m
• Beam - 3.53m
• Draft - 1.52m
• Displacement - 5080kg.
• Ballast - 2041kg.
• Builder - Moody Yachts.
• Designer - Bill Dixon.
• Lloyds moulding certificate.

Hull, deck & superstructure

• White GRP hull and superstructure.
• GRP deck with moulded light grey textured non slip panels.
• Centre cockpit with teak grate floor.
• Binnacle mounted wheel steering.
• Iron fin keel and partial skeg hung rudder.
• New seacocks 2025.

Interior & accommodation

• 6 berths including owners suite aft.
• All new upholstery replaced 2019.
• Internal woodwork revarnished in 2019.
• New fridge condenser, controller and thermostat 2024.
• Marine Gas safety inspection and certificate 2025.

Forward cabin

• V berth with small infill piece. Essentially a large double berth.
• Lined hull side with wood slats.
• Cave lockers above.
• Hanging cupboard to starboard and a cupboard with vanity shelf to port.
• Deck head hatch.

Saloon

• To starboard is a U shaped seating area which doubles up as a single berth.
• Book storage rack on the bulkhead and storage outboard.
• Central table with folding leaves and bottle storage.
• To port is a single settee berth with storage outboard.
• Central deck hatch.

Navigation station

• Utilising the port settee berth as a seat is an aft facing chart table/nav. station.
• Chart table with internal storage.
• Pedestal with drawer storage.
• Shelves for odds and ends and nav. equipment.
• Ships electrical distribution panel and instrumentation.

Heads

• Aft of the nav. station is a good sized heads.
• Moulded sink with pressurised hot and cold water via a shower head faucet. Storage outboard and a locker below.
• Jabsco marine toilet with electric flush.
• Teak grate floor.
• Shower sump pump.
• Cup holder and towel holder.

Galley

• The galley is to starboard and extends a little way down the corridor to the aft cabin.
• Double round stainless steel sinks with pressurised hot and cold water system via mixer tap.
• Refrigerated cold storage with new fridge condenser, controller and thermostat 2024.
• Plastimo Neptune stainless steel gimbaled cooker with 2 burners, grill and oven.
• Plenty of storage.

Corridor aft

• Full access to the engine room via a large removable panel.
• 2 x hanging lockers, fully lined with zipped closures.

Owners aft suite

• This is an amazing cabin with great headroom due to the centre cockpit arrangement.
• To port is an offset full double berth.
• To starboard is an L shaped seating area.
• Sink with pressurised hot and cold water via a mixer tap. The faucet folds inside the sink so the wooden sink cover can lower to be used as a vanity table. There is a mirror on the bulkhead above and a towel holder to the side.
• 2 x opening portlights aft with a central cave locker.
• Lined hull sides with wood slats.
• Hanging locker.
• Deck hatch.
• 2 x coachroof windows.

Deck & deck equipment

Deck

• A good sized centre cockpit with teak grate floor.
• Large, deep cockpit locker to port and a dedicated gas bottle locker.
• The side decks are easily navigated and the foredeck uncluttered with an anchor locker forward.
• Side decks are secured with an enclosed pulpit and stanchion posts running twin guard wires aft to quarter pushpits with a central gate. All guard wires replaced 2025.

Equipment

• Lofrans Kobra electric anchor windlass with warping drum and deck mounted foot controls.
• Lofrans control mounted on the helm binnacle for short handed anchoring.
• Bruce anchor.
• 30m of calibrated chain and 30m of warp, new 2021.
• Forward, midship and aft mooring cleats.
• Mooring warps and fenders.
• Boathook.

Rig, rigging & sails

• Masthead rigged sloop.
• Silver anodised single spreader mast.
• New standing rigging 2025.
• Silver anodised boom with solid strut vang.
• Silver anodised extendable Genoa pole with deck storage fittings.
• Selden Furlex 200S roller feefing headfoil.
• All new running rigging 2021.

Winches

• Lewmar 43 2 speed self tailing primary winches.
• Lewmar 6 single speed mast winch for reefing.
• 2 x Lewmar 7 single speed mast winches for halyards.

Sails

• Dacron mainsail (not fully battened) with stack pack and lazy jacks.
• Slab reefing.
• Roller furling Genoa.

Engine

• Thornycroft T80 35 hp marine diesel, Mitsubishi based, 4 cylinder inboard engine. Freshwater cooled via heat exchanger.
• Engine hours unknown.
• New Bowmans heat exchanger and associated hoses 2022.
• Modern electric fuel pump added.
• Gearbox - Hurth HB 100.
• Shaft drive to Bruntons Autoprop which was refurbished in 2025.
• Superb engine access for easy servicing via large panels in walk-through to aft cabin and from large cockpit locker.
• 5 - 7 knots cruising speed and about 2.5 l per hour.

Servicing

• 2 x per year, April & October. Engine oil, oil and fuel filters and impellar replaced with genuine parts.
• Every second year the transmission oil is changed, coolant flushed and replaced with new Antifreeze.

Electronics & navigation equipment

• Raymarine Speed, depth and wind instruments (hatch garage). New 2020.
• Raymarine Axiom chart plotter. (helm binnacle) New 2024. UK/Ireland charts
• Raymarine radar with mast mounted Raydome.
• Raymarine Smart pilot autopilot control (helm binnacle).
• Raymarine autopilot remote control.
• Raymarine Ray 54E DSC VHF (chart table) with cockpit speaker.
• Binnacle mounted magnetic steering compass.
• Clock & barometer.

Electrical

• 12 V ships electrics.
• 2 x domestic batteries and 1 x engine battery. New 2021.
• 230v shore power system including consumer unit and ring main plug sockets. New 2020.
• Mastervolt charger with split charge for domestic and engine battery charging. New 2020.

Navigation lights

• Mast rewired and new LED navigation lights including masthead tricolour fitted 2020.
• LED deck level navigation lights.

Tankage & systems

• Fuel - 151L.
• 2 x MDPE fresh water tanks and associated fittings. Thought to be approx. 60L per tank. New 2019.
• Calorifier tank and associated hoses. New 2022.

Entertainment

• Fusion MSRA70 radio stereo with Bluetooth and remote control pad at the hatch garage.
• 2 x Pioneer saloon speakers.

Canvas work

• Navy blue mainsail stack pack with lazy jacks and mast boot.
• Navy blue sprayhood.
• Navy blue wheel and binnacle cover.

Safety gear & equipment

• White horseshoe life buoy with transom bracket.
• Kim MOB rescue sling mounted at the transom.
• FireAngel Carbon Monoxide alarm.
• Smoke alarm.
• Automatic and manual bilge pumps.
• Fire blanket.
• Fire extinguishers.