Review of Moody 45 Decksaloon
Basic specs.
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The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.
The hull is a sandwich construction which improves the indoor climate. Especially when the water is colder than the air in the cabin, then the double hull insulates against cold water and reduce the condense water in the cabin. The core material in the sandwich construction is balsa.
The boat is equipped with 6 berths and 800.0 liter fresh water capacity.
Sailing characteristics
This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.
What is Capsize Screening Formula (CSF)?
The capsize screening value for Moody 45 Decksaloon is 1.93, indicating that this boat could - if evaluated by this formula alone - be accepted to participate in ocean races.
Moody 45 Decksaloon holds a CE certification:
The boat is by European Union certified as Class A. OCEAN:What is Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed?
The theoretical maximal speed of a displacement boat of this length is 8.7 knots. The term "Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed" is widely used even though a boat can sail faster. The term shall be interpreted as above the theoretical speed a great additional power is necessary for a small gain in speed.
The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level.
The immersion rate for Moody 45 Decksaloon is about 395 kg/cm, alternatively 2216 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 395 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm.
Alternatively, if you load 2216 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.
Sailing statistics
This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.
What is Motion Comfort Ratio (MCR)?
The Motion Comfort Ratio for Moody 45 Decksaloon is 28.9.
What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?
The l/b ratio for Moody 45 Decksaloon is 3.00.
What is Displacement Length Ratio?
The DL-ratio for Moody 45 Decksaloon is 175 which categorizes this boat among 'light racers'.
Maintenance
As balsa wood is used as sandwich core material special care must be taken in relation to work that require penetration of the sandwich construction in order to to prevent water to get in contact with the balsa wood. Otherwise the balsa wood will eventually rotten and be expensive/impossible to repair.
If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.
| Usage | Length | Diameter | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jib sheet | 13.7 m | (45.0 feet) | 16 mm | (5/8 inch) |
| Genoa sheet | 13.7 m | (45.0 feet) | 16 mm | (5/8 inch) |
| Mainsheet | 34.3 m | (112.5 feet) | 16 mm | (5/8 inch) |
| Spinnaker sheet | 30.2 m | (99.0 feet) | 16 mm | (5/8 inch) |
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