Moody 36 (80s) Considering buying a 1978 Moody 36cc

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Felipe Pinzon

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Greetings everyone, my wife and I are considering buying a 1978 36cc in good condition but the wheel-mounted autopilot doesn't work.
Considering the purchase cost and the arrangements we have to make, the quotation to install a new Raymarine pilot with a linear unit, we would need to know the real weight of the boat. If the boat weighs more than 10 tons, the price of the pilot increases from 2.5k to 5k.

Supposedly a '78 Moody 36 cc displaces 6.6 tons, but I have my doubts, does anyone know the real weight of this model?

Thanks
 
Hi Felipe and welcome to the MOA,

I have no personal experience of the Moody 36 (circa 1980s), built from 1977 to 1981.

The Moody Archive gives her displacement as 6670 kg, but that will be with empty tanks and no cruising equipment or crew aboard. To adjust for that I would add about 2 tonnes (500 kg for crew, 500 kg for tank contents and 1000 kg for cruising gear and victuals) which gives you 8670 kg, still fairly well short of the 10 ton limit for the cheaper linear drive.

The Moody archive gives the displacement of our Moody425 as 9900 kg and she has bigger tanks so I take her all up weight to be about 12.5 tons and she has the more powerful Raymarine linear drive.

That's an entirely theoretical view, hopefully a M36 (80s) owner with real experience of your model will be along soon to help you.

Peter.
 
Hey Peter, thanks so much for your prompt response. I'm hoping anyone with a 36 has had a chance to weigh the boat. Anyway, I think logically a 36 shouldn't weigh more than a 425, but a friend has the same 36 and told me that the boat weighed 11 tons on the travel lift. Maybe there's a defect in the travel lift scale.
 
Hi Peter. The last time I took out my 36 (80) for antifouling it weighed in statedof walking 10400 kg
 
I would go for the larger unit - especially if you were using to negotiate a reduction in purchase price.
 
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