Description
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.