For Sale: Valiant 40 Cutter, Custom Rig!

[bongo]

Finest rigged V-40 Cutter anywhere; 43'LOA; rig designed and made by Port Townsend Rigging; Tapered Double Spreader Mast; 3' Bowsprit; Solent; New Chainplates; Sta-Lok fittings; Working Sails, by Carol Hasse, fully-battened, full roach main; cockpit reefing ; Yager Asymmetrical Spinnaker; Furuno 1834c/CMap NT-Max, repeater in cockpit, with Heading Sensor, which allows radar to overlay the gps!; Cap Horn Wind Vane; Alpha Systems Auto Pilot; Wallas 40Dt forced air diesel heat; Dickinson Propane Fireplace; Refrigeration 12VDC & PTO; ICOM IC-718; Rocna 33, 300' 3/8" H.T.; Fortress FX-37; 4-Lifeline AGM; Westerbeke 40-108, 1000 hours; Dripless shaft seal; Kiwi-Prop; Hull is vinylester/biaxial below waterline; and freshly painted above waterline. Beautiful interior.
I do NOT need "help" selling or marketing my boat.
If a broker hooks me up with the eventual buyer, there will be compensation.
$99,000 OBO.
Boat is located in Anacortes, WA. USA
Contact Greg for more information: gbmalm@gmail.com

[Steadman Uhlich]

Nice equipment list, very nice looking interior too.

[bongo]

Thanks Steady,
Lots of hard work and $, but she is, as all boats, a work in progress.

[Eleuthera 2014]

If it was me... I'd change the photos to horizontal. Few boats I've seen stand up in the water with their sterns in the air...

Nice vessel BTW. GL with the sale

[Roniszoro]

Year? Hull number?

[Smokeys Kitchen]

Hi Greg - nice list on the boat. In the photo, is that the solent stay I am looking at or the stay'sl stay? It just looked a little low down on the mast for a solent. Is the solent stay and/or the stay'sl stay removable?

Thanks,
Ron

[bongo]

Originally Posted by Roniszoro

Year? Hull number?

1978, Hull # 183, Thanks for asking.

[Maka]

Very nice. More pictures please.

[bongo]

Originally Posted by Smokeys Kitchen

Hi Greg - nice list on the boat. In the photo, is that the solent stay I am looking at or the stay'sl stay? It just looked a little low down on the mast for a solent. Is the solent stay and/or the stay'sl stay removable?

Thanks,
Ron

No, what you see is the Inner Fore Stay for the Staysail. When I pushed the headstay forward about 2', I left the inner fore stay where it was. This, in addition to helping balance the weather helm out, opened up the slot between the two sails. I left the original stem fitting on the bow of VOILA!; and since it was there and available to use, and the mast was still being fabricated, I had an internal slot and roller put in just below where the headstay attaches to the mast. It is in a good location for a second jib or a drifter, (downwind sailing with two jibs poled out?), either on a roller or not. I've never used it, but it is there. By the way, that original stem fitting is the only chainplate that was not renewed.
Thanks for your interest.

[bongo]

Originally Posted by Maka

Very nice. More pictures please.

More photos to come. I'll have to do some digging and driving

[Suijin]

Originally Posted by bongo

No, what you see is the Inner Fore Stay for the Staysail. When I pushed the headstay forward about 2', I left the inner fore stay where it was. This, in addition to helping balance the weather helm out, opened up the slot between the two sails. I left the original stem fitting on the bow of VOILA!; and since it was there and available to use, and the mast was still being fabricated, I had an internal slot and roller put in just below where the headstay attaches to the mast. It is in a good location for a second jib or a drifter, (downwind sailing with two jibs poled out?), either on a roller or not. I've never used it, but it is there. By the way, that original stem fitting is the only chainplate that was not renewed.
Thanks for your interest.

Scott and Kitty on Tamure made exactly the same modifications and have circumnavigated twice on it. They also have two whisker poles and Scott says it allows him to fly two jibs and make serious time on trade wind routes.

Bob Perry liked the bowsprit so much and how it eased weather helm that he incorporated it into the V42, but as a cutter without the solent stay.

If I ever have a spare $10k sitting around I might just pull the trigger and do the same.

[Telemark43]

Very nice boat ! I have a similar vessel, a 41' Lord Nelson.
Why are your selling?

[UNCIVILIZED]

How was the length of the bowsprit decided upon?

[hamburking]

Originally Posted by Maka

Very nice. More pictures please.

Oh yeah, boat porn....maybe something below the waterline...heh, heh....

[bongo]

Originally Posted by Smokeys Kitchen

Hi Greg - nice list on the boat. In the photo, is that the solent stay I am looking at or the stay'sl stay? It just looked a little low down on the mast for a solent. Is the solent stay and/or the stay'sl stay removable?

Thanks,
Ron

Part 2: The Inner Forestay is not easily removable, because I went with a furling staysail. I spent some time with a sailor that sailed 5 years in the southern oceans. He told me the rig of choice down there was to have a furling staysail. Easy to reduce sail in a hurry without having to go forward. I've spent 35+ years at sea, and believe me, there are times you should not be going forward, (even with a 50' freeboard). Sailing as a Cutter is easy: just backwind the staysail, let the clew of the genoa pass over it, set the genoa, then take care of the staysail. Piece of Cake.
The Solent provision has never been used. It should be removable to allow for easy tacking. I'd probably go with a removable furler. This "solent" is aft of the headstay, so, I'm not sure it is just what others are calling a solent.
Aloha, Greg