DescriptionMain Description Bill Dixon Centre Cockpit | Four Sleeping Cabins | 300Ah Lithium and Victron 2024 | TruDesign Seacocks 2023 | Watermaker, Solar and Wind | Coppercoat | Ready to Cruise
The Moody 44 was drawn by Bill Dixon and built by Marine Projects in Plymouth, who built Moody yachts for many years. She is a centre cockpit cruiser of solid, conservative construction, intended for long passages and long stays aboard. The layout gives a proper aft owner's cabin, well separated from the forward accommodation by the engine room. Stowage is generous throughout. The type suits a couple or a family who mean to live aboard and go a long way.
Da Capo was completed in 1993 and is on her third owner. She has been in the Caribbean since around 2010. Her present owners bought her in 2021 and have cruised her as a family liveaboard, laying her up ashore in Panama between seasons. She is offered fully equipped and ready to sail.
Money has been spent where it matters. All thru-hulls and seacocks were replaced with TruDesign composite fittings in 2023. The house bank was renewed in 2024 with 300Ah of lithium, Victron charging and a SmartShunt, supported by 685W of solar and a wind generator. The Perkins Prima M50 received new mounts and a rebuilt starter in January 2026. The Coppercoat dates from 2019 and the dodger and rain-catchment shade cover from 2023.
She already carries what most new owners spend their first season fitting: a Spectra watermaker, Hydrovane self-steering, SSB with Pactor modem, AIS, an Axiom chartplotter, 72 metres of stainless chain and a 12 ft RIB with a 15hp outboard. Her owners have been open about her cosmetic needs and the age of her standing rigging. She shows honest use, not neglect.
Key Features
- Moody 44 centre cockpit by Bill Dixon, built 1993 by Marine Projects, Plymouth
- Four separate sleeping areas, berths for seven, two heads
- Aft owner's cabin with double berth accessible from both sides
- TruDesign composite thru-hulls and seacocks throughout (2023)
- 300Ah lithium house bank with Victron charger, Orion DC to DC charger and SmartShunt (2024)
- 685W of solar and D400 wind generator (2021)
- Spectra watermaker with spare membrane
- Hydrovane self-steering, which doubles as an emergency rudder
- New Perkins engine mounts and rebuilt starter (January 2026)
- Icom IC-M802 SSB with Pactor modem, AIS transponder and Navtex
- 72 m of 10 mm stainless chain on a 25 kg stainless Delta, plus Fortress and CQR
- Apex 12 ft hypalon RIB with Yamaha 15hp outboard
- Engine accessible from three sides
Broker's Comments
Well found ocean monohulls in the Caribbean tend to be either tired or heavily priced. Da Capo sits sensibly between the two. The unglamorous and expensive jobs, seacocks, batteries and charging, have been done recently, and her cruising equipment is already aboard and in use. Her owners have been candid about what remains, chiefly cosmetic work and the age of the standing rigging, so a buyer can plan and budget with confidence. Lying in Panama, she is well placed for the San Blas islands, the canal and the Pacific beyond. For a couple or a family wanting a capable ocean cruiser without a long refit list, she deserves a close look.
Full Specification and Inventory General
- Builder: Marine Projects Ltd, Plymouth, England
- Designer: Bill Dixon
- Model: Moody 44 centre cockpit
- Year: 1993
- Name: Da Capo
- Hull: GRP, built to Lloyd's certification, glassed-in marine ply bulkheads, GRP floors
- Deck: GRP with balsa core reinforcement in high-load areas, mechanically fastened and bonded to the hull
- Keel: fin keel, rudder on skeg
- Flag: Australian (General Register), home port Sydney
- Lying: ashore, Panamarina, Caribbean coast of Panama
Dimensions and Tankage
- Length overall: 13.41 m (44 ft)
- Waterline length: 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Beam: 4.17 m (13 ft 8 in)
- Draught: 2.0 m (6 ft 7 in)
- Fuel: 265 litres (70 US gal)
- Fresh water: 302 litres in two polyethylene tanks, interconnected
- Holding tank: 42 litres (11 US gal), forward heads
Engine and Propulsion
- Perkins Prima M50, 50hp, four-cylinder diesel
- Hours: approx. 3,420 (combined total of two hour meters)
- Hurth 50 gearbox
- Gori three-blade folding propeller (2013)
- Engine mounts, new Perkins originals (January 2026)
- Starter motor rebuilt (January 2026)
- Fuel lift pump (2024), raw water pump (2022), heat exchanger (2018), fresh water cooling pump (2015)
- 90A alternator, spare 70A alternator
- Engine room accessible from the port walk-through, the aft heads and the aft cabin
- Maintained to the Perkins schedule, maintenance log aboard
Accommodation
- Aft owner's cabin with double berth accessible from both sides, seating port and starboard, opening ports and overhead hatch
- Forward V-berth cabin with bookshelves and fishing gear stowage
- Forward starboard cabin with upper and lower bunks
- Port walk-through with single berth and workshop stowage
- Saloon with U-shaped settee and folding table to port, seating to starboard
- Forward-facing chart table
- Forward heads with Raritan electric toilet and holding tank; former shower space converted to shelved stowage
- Aft heads with manual toilet and shower
- Varnished teak joinery, fans in every cabin
- Two steering wheels, the smaller folding wheel stowed below
Galley
- Three-burner gimballed propane cooker with oven (2014), US gas fittings
- Winches: 2 x Lewmar 50 two-speed self-tailing primaries, 2 x Lewmar 30 two-speed self-tailing, Lewmar 40 two-speed self-tailing on the mast, Lewmar 16 and Lewmar 16 self-tailing on the coachroof
- Simpson Lawrence Horizon 1000 electric windlass with cockpit control
- Stainless bow fitting with twin rollers
- Anchors: 25 kg stainless Lewmar Delta, Fortress FX-23, 22 kg CQR, dinghy anchor
- 72 m of 10 mm stainless chain, approx. 100 m of spare nylon warp
- Stainless pulpit and pushpit, double guardwires
- Aluminium toerail
- Lewmar opening hatches
- Stainless dinghy davits and outboard crane
- Bathing platform with folding ladder and transom shower
- Eight fenders, good stock of spare lines
Canvas
- Stainless-framed dodger (2023)
- Stainless-framed bimini
- Full cockpit enclosure with Strataglass windows (2020)
- Shade cover with rain catchment over the aft cabin hatch and aft deck (2023)
Safety
- Plastimo 6-person liferaft, last serviced December 2022
- GME 406 MHz GPS EPIRB
- Lifesling and inflatable dan buoy
- Four lifejackets, gas cylinders renewed (2022)
- Jackstays, radar reflector, grab bag
- Flare pistol and flares
- Fire extinguishers in every cabin, automatic engine room extinguisher, fire blanket
- Hand pump for fresh water as backup to the pressure system
Sale Notes
- Registered on the Australian General Register, official number 859232
- The owners are aboard from approx. late November to mid January, the best time for viewings and sea trials
- The owners are willing to spend time aboard with the new owner to hand over her systems
- Not included, available by negotiation: Raymarine Quantum radar (fitted, needs rewiring), Starlink, Standard Horizon HX851 and HX890 handheld VHFs, paddle board, spearguns, fishing rod and gear, four harnesses, Musto foul-weather gear, galley inventory, library, pilot books, paper charts, cookery and provisioning books
- Owner-disclosed items: some varnish and deck cosmetics due; forward hatch taped and due for replacement; ST70 display requires repair; windlass down solenoid requires replacement; Hydrovane spare vane needs patching; flares out of date; shore power inlet in need of replacing
- Standing rigging dates from 2014 with later partial renewal. An insurer may require renewal
Disclaimer Nicolle Associates offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
- As always photographs do not do justice so a viewing is highly recommended.
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