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My Boat
2012 MOODY 45DS HAPPY Sometimes, a sailor’s hunt for the ideal boat can take mere days. More often than not, though, it takes much longer. And every once in a while, it’s a combination of both. The latter scenario happens when, during the search, a boat comes out of nowhere like a bolt of lighting and, just like that, you’ve found it. So went the boat search for Hugh and Lynn Creasy while looking for their perfect cruising sailboat. Hugh, a longtime sailor and mechanical engineer by degree, had a very good sense of what he wanted in a boat. Alas, his search for the right boat spanned years, with Lynn as a willing partner. 48º NORTH
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They stepped aboard numerous boats during that time and, in the summer of 2019 while chartering a catamaran, they spotted a Moody 54DS and began drooling. That was the lighting bolt moment. Though they could not get on the boat for a tour and there was no make/model identifier on it, Hugh and Lynn committed its unique styling to memory. A few months went by and Hugh finally found a similar Moody 45DS online. These boats are rare on the U.S. market, with most of them residing in Europe and Australia, so they knew they’d be looking abroad. After doing their research and finding FEBRUARY 2021
