Moody 31 Mk II Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Moody 31 Mk II means looking at a Bill Dixon-designed cruiser built between late 1985 and June 1991 by Marine Projects, with 305 Mk I and Mk II hulls in total. The Mk II is the one with the sugar-scoop transom and forward-facing chart table. It is a 30-foot masthead sloop with a solid fibreglass hull, a fin or bilge keel, and a six-berth three-cabin interior — a practical coastal cruiser that has aged into a common used-boat candidate.
Layouts on the Used Market
Owner three-cabin layouts are the more common on the used market, but both are available; ex-charter examples are common. The standard arrangement puts two single berths in the forecabin, two bench settees in the saloon, and an aft cabin behind the starboard galley with V-berths converting to a double. A forward-facing chart table to port with a navigator's stool and a marine WC compartment aft of it define the navigation and head spaces. Some hulls were delivered with tiller steering and an aluminium extension, while others have the optional wheel — a difference worth confirming before you assume the helm feel.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Commonly fitted gear on these boats includes a chartplotter, heating, autopilot, and a spinnaker, which together cover navigation, comfort, and downwind sailing for most owners. Often-seen additions are solar panels, a life raft, an asymmetric spinnaker, a dodger, and radar — a cluster that speaks to extended cruising and visibility. Less common owner upgrades include a gennaker, electric winches, a bimini, a swim platform, an EPIRB, and AIS. For a buyer, the meaningful clusters are power and energy (solar alongside heating), canvas and sail handling (dodger, asymmetric or gennaker), and safety electronics (radar, life raft, AIS) — each signals how far the prior owner took the boat beyond day-sailing.
What to Inspect
Inspection centres on verifying configuration rather than hunting faults. Confirm whether the hull is the fin-keel version drawing 1.52 m or the bilge-keel at 1.12 m, since that changes grounding and handling. Check the steering: some boats have the optional wheel, others a tiller with aluminium extension — make sure the chosen system is intact and not a later mismatched retrofit. Inspect the sugar-scoop transom for gelcoat crazing at the moulded join, as this is the Mk II's defining structural revision over the Mk I. Verify the forward-facing chart table and navigator's stool are present and undamaged, since these distinguish the Mk II interior.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
These boats typically appear in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Greece, and Ireland.
- Confirm keel type and draft before negotiating
- Verify steering configuration matches factory option
- Inspect sugar-scoop transom join for crazing
- Check chart table and navigator's stool are original
- Note ex-charter history on three-cabin examples
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Moody 31 Mk II. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 10 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | 11 | $32,580 | — |
| Oct 25 | 5 | $32,248 | -1.0% |
| Nov 25 | 2 | $26,817 | -16.8% |
| Feb 26 | 5 | $33,877 | +26.3% |
| Mar 26 | 3 | $34,624 | +2.2% |
| Apr 26 | 9 | $33,877 | -2.2% |
| May 26 | 3 | $27,156 | -19.8% |
| Jun 26 | 2 | $35,452 | +30.5% |
| Jul 26 | 1 | $27,088 | -23.6% |
| Aug 26 | 1 | $29,872 | +10.3% |
Where they're listed
Moody 31 Mk II listings appear across 4 countries. United Kingdom has the most listings with 36 (87.8%), followed by Netherlands and Greece.
Country view
41 listings · 4 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | $33,877 | 36 | 3 | 87.8% |
| Netherlands | $25,803 | 3 | 0 | 7.3% |
| Greece | $23,015 | 1 | 0 | 2.4% |
| Ireland | $28,812 | 1 | 1 | 2.4% |
Comparable models
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11 similar designs| Model | LOA | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalina 34 Mk II | 34.5' | $ 62,900 | 75 | 24 |
| Catalina 30 Mk II | 29.92' | $ 20,000 | 61 | 16 |
| Moody 31 Mk IIYou are here | — | $ 33,229 | 42 | 4 |
| Moody 27 | 27.67' | $ 14,936 | 29 | 10 |
| Moody 31 Mk I | 30.75' | $ 27,149 | 28 | 3 |
| Moody 30 | 30' | $ 17,404 | 27 | 6 |
| Moody 34 | 33.42' | $ 43,382 | 19 | 2 |
| Moody 37 | 37' | $ 66,301 | 17 | 1 |
| Rustler 31 | 31.42' | $ 17,651 | 14 | 0 |
| Moody 33 Mk I | 33' | $ 20,954 | 12 | 5 |
| Moody 33 S | 33' | $ 24,373 | 12 | 1 |