Moody-modeller

Moody is a British sailing-yacht badge with roots at Swanwick on the Hamble in England. FairHelm reads the name as English centre-cockpit cruising culture with a long Marine Projects Plymouth production chapter, not as a French volume twin factory and not as a Swedish Orust peer yard.

The story begins in 1827 when John Moody opened a repair yard. Timber sailing yachts follow from 1935. GRP production starts in 1965. FairHelm rejects any hub essay that starts only at the HanseYachts Greifswald chapter of 2007 and pretends the Marine Projects years never shaped the cards buyers still open on this hub.

What the badge buys you in practice is recognisable British centre-cockpit vocabulary: protected cockpit living, owner-cruiser joinery expectations, and a secondary market that still answers when a well-kept Moody appears on coastal brokerage lists. What it does not buy you is a free pass on teak, deck-core moisture, keel and tabbing evidence, or osmosis themes on older GRP. FairHelm judgment starts from yard history and ends at the hardstand.

Corporate ownership moved when the family sold to Premier Marinas in 2005. Production discontinued in 2006. HanseYachts AG in Greifswald restarted the badge from 2007 with AC aft-cockpit Classic and DS deck-saloon lines, Bill Dixon retained. FairHelm keeps that path brief and secondary. Ownership changes do not prove that a Hanse DS or AC listing is the same card as a Marine Projects Moody 336.

Design credit on Moody runs through Laurent Giles, Angus Primrose, and a long Bill Dixon chapter. FairHelm keeps those offices on the timeline so buyers do not paste a later Greifswald credit onto every 1980s–1990s centre-cockpit hull.

The Marine Projects partnership in Plymouth from about 1973 to about 2003 is the production era that still shapes FairHelm Moody cards. That partnership delivered about 39 models and about 4233 boats sold, with Primrose and then Dixon as the design voices buyers must keep when they open Moody 336 on this hub. FairHelm rejects crediting Hanse or Greifswald build for every Marine Projects centre-cockpit Moody of the 1980s and 1990s.

Industrial British series production through Marine Projects explains why Moody still appears in coastal brokerage talk. It does not licence open catalogue years after the closed FairHelm windows, and it does not invent published hull totals beyond the partnership aggregate and the Moody 336 figure FairHelm repeats here. Scale is liquidity context, not a survey substitute.

Corporate continuity after Premier Marinas and the Hanse restart explains dealer talk and parts networks for later AC and DS lines. It does not rewrite Marine Projects dimensions, and it does not merge Hanse DS or AC names with the Moody 336 card.

FairHelm keeps a short model map on this hub so readers can move from yard story to concrete cards without inventing a full catalogue or a hull-total ledger.

Moody 336 on FairHelm is the Bill Dixon Marine Projects Plymouth centre-cockpit series for 1988–1996, about 200 hulls, LOA 10.19 metres by beam 3.53 metres. FairHelm rejects a fixture start year of 1987 and rejects beam 3.42 metres for this card. Moody owners archive notes sometimes place LOA near 10.21 metres; confirm the plate on the specific hull. Closed FairHelm years stay closed.

Moody 34 sits on FairHelm as a sister British centre-cockpit coastal card. FairHelm names that related route so readers can cross-shop within the badge without inventing magazine dimensions for the 34 on this page. Do not treat Moody 34 and Moody 336 as interchangeable twins without plate and model-page checks.

FairHelm rejects merging Moody 336 with Moody 36 MkII or Moody 346 as the same card without a plate check. Different generation windows and different marks stay different cards. Seller copy that opens the window or collapses marks stays seller copy until a yard or primary source confirms a different identity.

Each model page holds survey patterns, ownership notes, and magazine-depth Dual-write that this brand essay does not duplicate. Use the map as a route, not as a production ledger. FairHelm does not invent published hull totals beyond the about 200 Moody 336 figure and the Marine Projects partnership aggregate of about 4233 boats.

FairHelm Baltic judgment is blunt: British centre-cockpit comfort sits against teak and deck-core moisture risk on older GRP. Survey findings flip more deals than LOA. Osmosis, keel, and tabbing themes on older Marine Projects hulls decide more weekends than brochure cabin sketches.

Cosmetics and a fresh plotter do not cancel soft teak, wet deck core, tired keel hardware, or undocumented tabbing repairs. Condition still beats badge when two asking prices sit tens of thousands apart. Liquidity for well-kept British centre-cockpit Moodys helps when you need to exit; it does not make deferred structure cheap.

Read every shortlist through invoices and a haul-out plan. FairHelm survey themes on Moody cards keep returning to teak, deck-core moisture, osmosis, keel, and tabbing checkpoints. Those patterns are teaching tools, not a verdict on the hull you are viewing this weekend. Badge depth and centre-cockpit familiarity are part of the buyer brief; they are not a substitute for evidence on the specific boat. Brochure berth counts are never a survey substitute.

This hub essay is yard authority plus FairHelm judgment. It is not a haul-out survey, not a purchase guarantee, and not a substitute for the academy buyers guide that holds full MOFU buying depth.

FairHelm does not invent open catalogue years beyond the closed Moody 336 window 1988–1996. FairHelm does not invent hull totals beyond about 200 for Moody 336 and about 4233 for the Marine Projects partnership era. FairHelm does not treat Moody as a French volume twin or a Swedish Orust peer. FairHelm does not merge Moody 336 with Moody 36 MkII or Moody 346 without a plate check, and does not treat Hanse DS or AC Greifswald lines as the same card as Marine Projects Moody 336.

Exact teak state, deck-core moisture, osmosis evidence, keel and tabbing condition, and standing-rigging age stay unknown until someone opens the boat. Use the model cards and survey reports linked from FairHelm for patterns, then pay for evidence on the specific hull. Ownership changes from Premier Marinas through HanseYachts stay brief context; they are not hull identity. Confirm LOA on the plate when owners-archive notes sit near 10.21 metres against the FairHelm 10.19 metre figure.

Primary citeable sources for this builder-depth pack:

Wikipedia Moody Yachts for Swanwick on the Hamble geography, the 1827 founding by John Moody as a repair yard, timber sailing yachts from 1935, GRP from 1965, the Marine Projects Plymouth partnership about 1973–2003 with about 39 models and about 4233 boats, the sale to Premier Marinas in 2005, production stop in 2006, and HanseYachts AG Greifswald from 2007 with AC and DS lines.

moody-yachts.com history notes for the Solar and GRP era narrative, Laurent Giles, Angus Primrose, and the long Bill Dixon chapter, and the Marine Projects production story that must not collapse onto every later Greifswald listing.

FairHelm magazine pack for moody336 for Bill Dixon credit, Marine Projects Plymouth build, closed window 1988–1996, about 200 hulls, LOA 10.19 metres by beam 3.53 metres, rejection of fixture start year 1987 and beam 3.42 metres, and the plate-check note when owners archive LOA sits near 10.21 metres.

Research file: 85-mig-research-moody-builder-depth-2026-08-30.md. Framing date aligned with lastReviewed 2026-08-30.