Latest Australian "Moody Moments" - Xmas 2011.
Peter A Robinson
I thought you might be interested in reading the latest newsletter from our fellow Moody owners in Australia. I am still hoping someone will volunteer to be editor for a newsletter from our group over here in the Americas. IF anyone feels the urge to volunteer please email me and I will be happy to let you know what is involved.
Speaking of volunteering, if anyone would like to attempt to organize a Moody Owners rendezvous that would be fantastic. I realize we are all spread out but it would be great if we could have someone organize some activities for owners in your area. The NE and the Mid-Atlantic of the USA was, at one time, the hot spots for get-togethers of Moody Owners. Recently, I was able to meet up with some members on Lake Ontario in Canada for a mini-rendezvous. There are at least half a dozen owners in the area. All it takes is for someone to take the first step.
BTW - The day after Thanksgiving I'm traveling to St. Mary's, Georgia to bring my boat to Pensacola, FL. I expect it will take me about two weeks to cruise from the Atlantic coast, south to Stuart, Florida, across the Lake Okeechobee Canal to Ft. Myers, Fl then across the Gulf of Mexico to Pensacola. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate.
Peter
From: Chris Ayres [mailto:chris...@bigpond.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:59 PM
Subject: Latest Moody Moments - Xmas 2011.
Dear Moody young folk
-- Here it is folks and thanks Arne, Bjorn and David for your news and piccies.
Clean Bottoms
Chris
No 1.
Summer 2011
The Moody 425, similar to Bjorn and Christina Gillgren’s beautiful Mischeif
The Moody 425, designed by Bill Dixon, started production in 1988, a development of the 422. Her LOA is 12.7 metres, beam of just over 4 metres, and draft of either 1.83 (fin) or 1.42, shoal. The fuel tank which Bjorn replaced is 273 litres. The old motor was a Thornycroft 50 hp, now a new Yanmar.
In this Moody Moments, Bjorn and Christina describe the relacement of engine and fuel tank.
Moody’s on the Move.
MOAA is fortunate in having its international contingent of cruisers. In this edition, I want to thank Bjorn and Christina Gillgren and also Arne and Leonie Nielson for their wonderful stories, Bjorn and Christina in the Med and Arne and Leonie in the West Indies. What a diverse and adventurous membership we have! Les and Fran Graham have also told us their adventures in Turkey and Greece in MM No 2 2009 Autumn. They keep their Moody 39 Tequilla Sunrise in Turkey.
Oh, just in case you wonder, yes, we DO sail our boats as well as work on them!
Bjorn and Christina write” We have had a rather big year with some fantastic sailing and as one expects some improvements to the our Moody425. We spent last European winter with the boat in Malta.
A proud Arne with the new fuel tank
One of the winter 'projects' was a new fuel tank as the old one had lived with a temporary repair since sailing up the Red Sea in 2009. We cut up the old mild steel tank to get it out and fitted an EPOXY replacement, fabricated to come in and out on the starboard side through the doors. This way it is 50 litres smaller than the old tank but makes for an easy and clean job. We have now changed all the tanks on board and are quite some experts on the matter.
The other job was to replace our old faithful Thornycroft T110 with a Yanmar 4JH5E. After nearly 20 years the old wheezer deserved retirement. When we were at it we changed the drive shaft and propeller as well. The overall result is fantastic with an extra knot cruising speed for the same fuel consumption and much,much quieter.
Out with the old – like a rotten tooth!
The sailing season saw us sailing from Malta to Sicily, Calabria and over the to Greece (Ionian) and then via Paxos and Corfu to Kotor in Montenegro. This part of the Med is just fantastic. We then carried on north through Croatia heading for Venice. Croatia is probably one of the best cruising grounds in the Med with all of its islands and its 'mild' sailing weather. Once in the north of Croatia the weather gods conspired to frustrate our attempts to get to Venice with weeks on end of thunderstorms and strong headwinds so we turned around and headed south, still in Croatia. As we were keen to experience something else we crossed over to Italy and Puglia. After a month of short coastal hops between quaint small harbours with great history, food and wine we returned to Malta via Syracuse, Sicily, a favourite stop of ours. We have now stopped for the European winter and are planning next years escapade whilst enjoying the Mediterranean weather.
What struck us this year was the number of Australian and New Zealand registered yachts ploughing the seas here in the Mediterranean. There are not only some like us who sailed from down under but a large number of yachts bought here for the purpose of sailing the Med for some years and then to be sold again. A very attractive proposition right now with the buyers market. Real fine yachts for a very reasonable price is to be had. The only catch might be that it is tempting to buy larger than needed and then suffer the cost of that when visiting town quays and marinas.
Fair Winds and Following Seas.
Bjorn & Christina Gillgren
And now, Arne and Leonie record their maintenance on Da Capo their Moody 44, in Curacao.
Arne writes “
The hurricane season has ended, so we are back in Curacao where we left our Moody 44 on the hard. A few repairs and additions and anti-foul we will be on our way to St Martin.
Leonie gets stuck into Da Capo’s bum
Thursday there was a fire on a five million dollar Catamaran “Mala Conducta”. It was in the marina having a $100,000 repair after a lightning strike. Now the interior is completely burnt out. The smell coming from the fire was toxic. The skipper and a technician especially sent from America to fix the electronics were working on the damage caused by the lightning when the high tech batteries blew up. The skippers’ hair was burnt and he was very distressed and the technician legs were burnt. The fire brigade, ambulance and police responded in no time at all.
We have been very busy. We had to apply a coat of Primicon because we switched to an ablative anti-foul. We estimated it would require 4 gallons of micron 66. It is so hot here the paint dries on the roller and in the tray before you apply it. We ended up using very small rollers 100cm by 30 cm and we added thinners to stop the paint from drying too fast. We used the normal sized rollers on the first coat and it resulted in using two gallons, by using the smaller rollers we used only one gallon. Can’t quite figure that one out but all the locals use the small rollers here, takes longer to do the job but saves on cost they say.
The next job is to install a water maker. As it is so hot inside the boat we will be hiring an air conditioner. Problem is, electricity is expensive here, that will cost in the vicinity of $100 a week. Plus the $65 hire fee.
We installed the new oven but we are still waiting for the gas to arrive.
Curacao marina is like a small community there are two British boats, two German boats, two American boats, lots of French and Venezuelan boats some Dutch boats and two other Australian boats. The marina put on a happy hour BBQ the first Friday we were here it was great to catch up and meet the other cruisers. It is difficult being on the hard stand, it is cooler on the water and you don’t need to climb up and down a ladder.
The facilities here are O.K. the women’s shower block is quite new and air conditioned but only one out of the three showers is still working. All the men’s showers work but it is very rough. They build the toilets for people with no legs the doors are too close to the toilet and the toilets are really high. There is no place to wash your clothes. The Laundromat is on the way to Spanish Water, it is difficult to get to it without a car.
We hired a car for the convenience, We have the only car in the Marina so everyone wants to borrow the car; it is a very small Hyundai. There was a swap meet at Fisherman’s wharf today and we had to take two groups by car. The swap meet is on once a month and the cruisers bring all sorts of things they don’t want to store on their boat any more. It is called treasure from the bilge but there is not much treasure. We got to sell some of our “treasures”.
We use the car to go to the local Supermarkets, Hardware store and restaurants. There are three main supermarkets Vredenhil, Albert Hein and Centrum they are great. Zanzibah is one of the local restaurants that turns into a very busy night club on the weekends. Ilforno Italian style Pizza and Pasta, Deli France, Ribs Factory and a couple of restaurants, “El Greco”, serve Argentinean steaks and “Equus” only serve steak and bread. There is a beautiful little restaurant called Kuri Hulanda close to the Rif Fort it is part of an old style Hotel built in a Dutch colonial style and the prices are good.
Finally, a great shot of ‘The Locals’
Arne and Leonie are currently enjoying fitting a water maker! More next time.
Meanwhile David and Kerryn off Alcyon tell us that:
Alcyon is being prepared to disappear into the blue yonder. We have so far installed the original folding prop. More speed when sailing. If we find we will be sailing where the currents are fast then we can always put the large fixed one back. The boat has two self steering methods. One directly onto the wheel and a huge powerful one straight onto the quadrant. Which was modified when installed. We could not work out what the forth battery was but while pulling the old wiring out found that this extra battery powered the shelf steering. wind generator keeps this battery topped up.
Our large fridge freezer is now working which is great in this climate.
we are installing new wind instruments as we have none and a simrad touch chartplotter at the helm. we have a separate gps chart system at the nav station. We have wired in a 12 v TV with a digital box which stores over 400 movies and another with our disc collection on.
The teak decking in the cockpit is off pic coming. am about to order the new decking from the U.K.
already mentioned the sail adjustments,
Hope all is well with you guys up north. we have a moody arriving next week into the club which I think is the same as yours but will let you know. That means three in Geelong!!!!!
Regards
David Kerryn
David – PLEASE tell them about MOAA and MOA and get them to email me.
Blue skies and Clean Bottoms all,
Chris
Stephanie Peterson
Matt Salatino
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From: Stephanie Peterson <brilli...@hotmail.com>;
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Subject: Re: {MOA-Americas} Latest Australian "Moody Moments" - Xmas 2011.
Sent: Fri, Nov 18, 2011 11:54:05 PM
Peter Robinson
Pete, I will be at St Marys until Sunday morning so we will definitely need to get together (Ray will be there also).
I am also very much looking forward to meeting Matt on my way through Melbourne. If any other Moody owners are in the area please join us.
Peter
pop...@aol.com
THANKSGIVING DAY 2011
St. MARYS, GA.
Welcome all Boating Transients to St. Marys for our annual Thanksgiving week gathering and Meal We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones.
This is an event hosted by a group of St. Marys residents to provide a Thanksgiving stopping place for all of those boaters who are transienting south for the winter.
The following is the present schedule of events
5:30 Every Nite---Informal gatherings at Seagles Bar Starting about Sun. 11/20
(corner Osbourne & St. Marys St.)….byo snacks…….cash bar
Tuesday 11/22 5:30 Boaters Party w/ snacks to pass at Seagles …..cash bar
Wednesday 11/23 5:30 Oyster Roast Happy Hour @ Seagles
oyster eaters gather…… byo snacks…..cash bar
Thursday 11/24 8:30 Coffee and table setup (volunteers?)
12:30 Turkeys, hams and dishes show up
1:00 Eat……..that means everybody
Ice Tea, Coolaide, plates, plastic ware and napkins will be provided
BYOB until 5:00 when the bar opens….take OBs away
1:00 – 5:00 small cash bar off dining room open
Friday 11/25 8:30 Pancake Breakfast ($5 ) Coffee and Swap meet at
Seagles Patio
Saturday11/26 6:00 Jazz in the Park 1812 fundraiser
To sign up, questions and checkin, email Ann Barr at seat...@flash.net
or 713-823-3864
St. Marys local contact Charles Culp 912-882-2779 or pop...@aol.com
THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR YOUR BOAT
Riverview Hotel – in...@riverviewhotelstmarys.com 912-882-3242
Lang’s Marina 912-882-4252 or Nat (Dockmaster) 912-882-6410
St. Marys City Dock…available for short term tie-ups for loading supplies
(3-4 hours…no overnights)
Volunteers will be supplying transportation to area markets…check with Ann
John Hembrow
Hi Peter, Too much traffic for my band width when not based on land – please remove my email from this group
Regards,
John & Leanne Hembrow
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