Forward Storage Area

● Chain locker is divided for two anchors with starboard grate

● Chain locker has Starboard reinforcement on the bulkhead

● Primary Bruce anchor has 400’ of chain with much pulled aft under storage

● Note: The deckwash pump is in the storage area on the starboard side

● Stored there are new furling lines, sheets, halyards

● Spare 110v battery charger

● Downwind MPS (Doyle Sails used three times) and control lines

● Custom teak line holder for MPS rigging

● Large overhead hatch for downwind sail and escape

● Custom teak screen

● Great ventilation flow through the boat

● Two custom cabinets

● Fire extinguisher mounted up forward

 

Forward Cabin

● Pullman layout

● Nice double berth with overhead hatch and window

● Reading lights and dome light in the berth

● The fiddle that runs the length of the boat is a great nook

● Drawers three large drawers and a show locker under berth and storage outboard

● Step for hopping up

● Six-inch-high quality mattress with hypervent

● Custom shelf at the forward (foot) bulkhead

● Shelf has B&G hydra multi-function display to monitor

● To starboard, huge hanging locker with shelves outboard

● Clothes hook behind the door

● Additional large locker with shelves for clothes

● Large hanging locker with shelves outboard

● Shelf above with storage great for hats and scarves

● Overhead Lewmar hatch with custom teak screen over berth

● Stainless steel opening ports with screens port and starboard

● Alpenglow red and white light

● Two Hella fans in the forward cabin

 

Main Salon

● Pullman chose for ocean passage making and world voyaging due to the storage it offers

● Port side settee with foot well (which can store an immense load)

● Huge locker amid ship houses the masthead connections, it houses the electronic compass for radar overlay, and provides storage also

● Fluxgate compass installed on the salon table leg away from interference

● At the base of the mast under the floorboard is the Furuno sensors for boat speed

● Reading lights at settees port and starboard, both ends

● Alpenglow lights overhead with both red and white

● Drop leaf table that can extend across to the starboard settee to seat four

● Center storage in the table for those special beverages or cloth napkins

● Salon port side cabinet is huge to store many things

● Seafrost and 12v Tradewinds system in the cabinet

● Full-length shelves for books and baskets and things

● Settees have storage outboard

● Water tanks are aluminum, 44 gallons each under settee (88 gallons total)

● Port side settee has lee cloth and foot well

● Starboard settee is full length with lee cloth and reading lights

● Settee cushions in perfect condition always covered (blue soft upholstery)

● Starboard outboard shelf (double shelf) with cabinet aft near the nav

● This cabinet houses the installation of Iridium brain, stereo, and manuals

● Beautiful hand rubbed varnished cherry interior

● Chelsea striking ships clock and barometer

● Beautiful oil lamp from Norway, a special gift to the boat

● Large Lewmar ocean hatch with teak custom screen

● Four Hood stainless steel opening ports with screens

● Custom curtains run the full length of salon (always closed to prevent sun damage)

● Cherry fiddles run the full length and accentuate the shear of the hull shear

● Hella fans with variable speeds, very quiet

● Stereo speakers, and stereo

● Teak and basswood cable sole has always had rugs and is perfect

● Floorboards are impressive thick marine plywood laminated with half inch teak

● All the floorboards are locking, and all numbered

● Main freshwater intake thru hull located amid ship under the sole

● Manual emergency bilge pump (secondary interior pump) stored under sole

● Air conditioning and refrigeration pumps located under the sole

● Insulated hull to the water line means no condensation in the interior and in the lockers

 

Galley

● Classic Valiant U-shaped galley adjacent the nav station

● Force 10 three-burner gimbaled stove and oven

● Cabinet with sliding doors outboard with two shelves dishes

● Microwave at the forward end of cabinet

● Huge counter forward with room to open the refrigerator

● Refrigerator has extra insulation with divider so large freezer is separate

● Controls for two separate systems, 110v Seafrost and 12v (labeled)

● Two cold plates for very effective 110v system, generator can freeze quick

● Seafrost 12v Tradewinds system keeps the cold and works on the hard also

● Corian counters with teak fiddles, perfect condition

● Silverware drawer

● Trash bin roll out trash bin near the centerline, envy of boat owners

● Aft bulkhead double deep stainless steel sinks and pressure faucet

● Seagull filter water system with new filter, not used

● Manual foot pump for fresh water in galley and in the head

● Custom sink pump out drain, note raised waterline for distance cruising

● Cabinet above the sink is large

● At the outboard side of the counter is a huge locker for pans and pans and ships stores (all the pots and pans convey as they work perfectly on the boat)

● Under sink cabinet is large holding all cleaning supplies

● Three deep drawers in the sink cabinet inboard

● Overhead ocean hatch with teak screen for galley ventilation

● Stainless steel Hood port with screen outboard to port over stove

● Huge amazing Valiant pantry to starboard at the galley aft of nav seat

● Pantry has four awesome rollout locking shelves! The envy of boat owners.

● Shelf above pantry and small cabinet with safety equipment

● AC/Heat intake installed below pantry with vents throughout

 

Head & shower stall

● Located aft at companionway

● Bifold teak door

● Separate shower with seat, teak grate and sump pump

● Shower has Euro faucet with hot and cold water

● Opening Hood port with screen in shower

● Lewmar ocean hatch in shower

● Towel or foul weather gear hooks!

● Very large locker outboard of the shower seat

● Large Corian counter with sink outboard

● Cabinets outboard to the hull with two shelves

● Amazing storage locker or hamper, your choice

● Hot and cold pressure water and manual foot pump

● Mirror

● Towel rods and hooks

● Cabinet above the sink is huge extending to hull

● Toilet (larger Puritan Skipper toilet) with new pump

● Custom access to the engine room just aft of toilet

● Espar heater vent in the bathroom!

● Large storage under sink cabinet

 

Aft Stateroom

● Off-shore sea berth

● Double berth with divided cushion and lee board

● Two mattresses with hypervent

● Perfect off-watch sea berth

● Safety gear can be stowed in the outboard berth

● Hella fans

● Lewmar ocean hatch

● Hood opening ports (two) with screens

● Bifold privacy door

● The “pizza” window folds up to provide for communication with the cockpit

● Seat with storage under for tools

● Large locker outboard holds safety gear and sailing gear

● Mirror and clothes hooks

● Large drawer under berth

● Custom extra batteries installed under the drawer to make 900-amp hours

● Under berth the amazing battery installation with tiedowns and new boots

● Seafrost 110v compressor, under berth

● Hot water heater 110v, under berth

● Epirb, grab and go location

● Bilge pump at the lowest place just forward of companionway stair

 

Navigation Station

● The classic forward facing nav station is the ships office

● Located to starboard adjacent the galley

● Custom flush mounted electronics, all neat, clean, beautiful

● Electronics Furuno, B&G

● Norwegian nav chart light, red and white

● Storm glass

● Chart table is large enough with chart storage within

● Charts, charts, charts

● Storage outboard for various things including Icom handheld VHF, Q Flag, Curtesy flags, burgees

● Storage under nav seat currently spares and supplies

● Drawer for everything

● Cabinet under nav desk is large

● Opening port with screen

● Ocean hatch, small over nav station with teak screen

● Hella fan

● Alpenglow red and white light

● Behind above nav seat is Espar diesel heat control panel

● Air conditioning 110v control panel

 

Companionway

● Teak steps with treads

● Teak drop boards are solid

● Companionway cherry screens beautiful and provide great ventilation

● Companionway cherry and plexiglass drop boards provide light

● Sliding hatch has sky light, always covered to keep interior nice

● Electrical control panel on the bulkhead under the companionway ladder

● Master breaker for 110v shore power, generator, inverter

● Master breaker for 12v system, for refrigeration

● Generator start control

● Lewmar electric winch breaker for cabin house winch under dodger

● Espar diesel furnace breaker

● Solar charger panel

● Halon system override control

● B&G Hydra Remote handheld control unit for use under dodger

● Engine room light switch

● Command mic for VHF radio

Electronics and Navigation

● Furuno NavNet II, the master brain with additional unit under dodger

● Upgraded for high res 36-mile color radar with overlay MARPA

● Chart plotter uses C-Map NT Command NT Charts

● (Complete charts for all of North and South America)

● Class A Furuno AIS (sends and receives like commercial ships)

● Wind speed and direction display over companionway

● Furuno weatherfax

● Furuno forward looking sonar

● Sirius weather data and charts (requires subscription)

● Upgraded Furuno electronic compass

● Northstar 600i chart plotter (totally separate) provides backup

● Northstar also feeds data to the B&G Hydra system/multi-function displays

● Northstar uses Navionics charts, Alaska to Cape horn, and even Nova Scotia

● B&G multifunction display at the nav station and two over companionway

● B&G Hydra autopilot is top of the line upgraded hydraulic ram with rudder indicator at the helm

● B&G Hydra autopilot remote at the companionway and also at the helm

● Furuno Fluxgate Compass (under the salon table)

● ICOM VHF radio with full function cockpit mic

● ICOM Single sideband radio with Pactor II modem for SSB data

● Iridium phone installed with external antenna.

● Valiant Electrical Panel outboard with tidy labeled installation

● DC panel

● AC 110v panel

● Xantrex Power Inverter and battery monitor

● Large fire extinguisher installed under nav table

● EPIRB installed in aft cabin to grab and go with ditch bag

● Monitor windvane steering system (currently in storage

Electrical systems

● Batteries replaced in 2018

● Amazing 900-amp hours of battery power with custom installation

● Lifeline AGM Group 31 XL (1-4 under berth)

● Lifeline AGM Group 31 XL (5-6 in custom drawer below berth)

● Lifeline AGM Group 31 XL start battery

● Solar Panels: two 130-amp panels installed on stern arch

● Wind generator Eclectic Energy D400 quiet, with spares and maintenance items including spare hub and blades

● 50-amp shore power connection, shore power cable, connectors and adaptors (many electrical spares)

Mechanical Systems

Engine Details

● Westerbeke 55B 55hp engine V-drive

● PYI shaft seal new in 2016

● Cutlass bearing replaced in 2016

● 1500 hours (hour meter stopped at 880), log available

● Four-cylinder, naturally aspirated maintained in excellent condition

● Stainless steel shaft with line cutter and zincs

● New 120-amp alternator with Balmar regulator double belts

● Dual Racor fuel filters

● Valiant fuel manifold for three fuel tanks, total of 63 gallons

● Saddle tanks in port and starboard cockpit lockers outboard

● Custom additional tank, 23 gallons in engine room

● Full access to engine

● Storage for tools and oil

● Electric oil change pump

● Engine spares: impellers, filters, o-rings, belts, water pump, alternator (Westerbeke kit)

● Spare alternator, regulator and likely more

 

Generator Details

● Westerbeke 5kw diesel generator (350 hours)

● Located centerline aft of engine under cockpit sole

● Access from cockpit lockers and in engine room

● Can run everything from the 110v refrigeration and air conditioner/reverse cycle heat to tea kettle

● Controls at companionway

Deck and Hull

● Classic Bob Perry modified fin keel, laterally long for stability and tracking

● Skeg mounted rudder as deep as the keel

● The boat steers itself if sails are trimmed

● Overbuilt solid hand laid fiberglass hull is famously robust

● Hull insulation deck to waterline prevents condensation

● Impressive very robust Valiant layup schedule of matt and woven roving

● Deck cored with balsa with solid fiberglass where needed for any hardware

● Aluminum slotted toe rail for easy attachment points for blocks

● Scuppers

● Beautiful dawn colored factory nonskid

● Classic vertical cabin house sides so you can open ports in rain

●(12) Hood ports with screens throughout the boat

●(7) Lewmar ocean hatches with teak screens and covers

● Massive Valiant bow anchor platform with solid bow pulpit of 1” SS

● 24” high stanchions with SS uncoated lifelines and new hardware

● Solid stern rail to the boarding gates port and starboard

● Secure offshore cockpit

● Folding Valiant ladder installs on the toe rail port or starboard

● Structural Valiant arch system integrated with stern rail and davit system

● Arch supports installed solar and wind

● Integrated davit system with all hardware and lines to raise and lower dink

● Davits easily removed to accommodate Monitor wind vane steering system

● Monitor windvane hardware and line controls installed

● B&G Hydra autopilot at the helm with remote

● B&G multifunction displays over the companionway

● Wind speed and direction display over companionway

● Furuno NavNet display under dodger

● Heel-o-Meter

● Richie compass at the Binnacle

● Elkhide cover on the 36” wheel

● Wheel lock

● Monitor windvane control lines with hardware on the binnacle

● Ritchie compass on the binnacle

● Cockpit table, starboard, not wood

● Helm cover always used so everything has been protected

● Two large cockpit lockers port and starboard lockers with fuel tanks outboard, generator access panels installed

● Teak line holders in cockpit lockers

● Two aft lockers with the port side used for stern anchor rode below and propane sealed space above

 

Deck Layout

● Valiant massive stainless steel bow pulpit anchor platform

● Welded eye for spinnaker Harken block at the bow, custom

● Anchor snubber system Harken block attached to the platform

● Custom stainless steel plate protects the deck from anchor chain

● Lighthouse 1500 electric windlass for HT chain

● Hoss pipe to port for secondary anchor with gypsy on Lighthouse

● Port side connection for anchor washdown system with intake in the forepeak storage area

● Primary anchor is 77lb Manson Bruce anchor with 400’ 5/16th HT chain (Note: there is a new 66lb Bruce in storage to downsize)

● Secondary anchor is 45lb CQR with 20’ chain and about 150‘ of rode with the Lighthouse gypsy roller to support the rode

● Anchor location float

● Anchor snubber rigged and ready

● Stainless steel cleats 10” with chocks at the bow, amid ships, and at the stern

● Large Lewmar ocean hatch forward provides a great way to get the MPS downwind sail out and back in, also provides amazing ventilation

● Cabin house has vertical sides so open ports in light rain

● Hood ports have the bottom edge angled down so as not to collect water

● Cabinhouse foredeck is flat and stows a dinghy nicely with electric winch to lift it easily, even as a single hander

● Folding padeyes factory installed on foredeck for dinghy

● Lewmar hatch on the cabin house forward of the mast

● Note: all hatches have always been covered to keep the interior beautiful

● The downwind pole installed on the mast with hardware

● Aluminum mast collar is slotted to allow for attaching the blocks

● Guards for the dorades make nice steps to reach the top of the mainsail

● The mainsail cover has the zipper offset to starboard for ease if zipping

● The toe rail is a slotted aluminum rail that allows blocks to be attached where they are needed, and Winchard eyes for blocks are attached were needed

● Winchard eyes are ready for spinnaker sheet blocks

● Starboard boards port and starboard for jerry can tiedowns

● (6) Jerry cans, in storage

● The dodger is a custom design that is very sleek with the sides extending well aft for protection in weather under the dodger

● The dodger connector canvas with windshield attaches to the Bimini

● Dodger has handholds on the sides as you step in and out of the cockpit and a hand hold on the aft side in the cockpit for safety and security

● Cockpit coamings are flat for a nice place to sit

● Teak cockpit grate in two pieces for easy removal for cleaning

● Bridge deck for offshore safety

Stainless stern arch system

● The arch was customized by the engineer owner who specified extra support gussets and tie rods to prevent vibration

● The two 130-amp solar panels are mounted on top of the arch

● The Eclectic Energy D400 wind generator is mounted on the starboard side on the arch integrated with the arch

● The antennas also live on the arch; Northstar antenna and the Furuno NavNet two antennas supporting the Furuno AIS, Iridium Sat Phone, and Sirius Weather

● The arch was rebedded in Dec 2018 when the boat arrived in Seattle by truck

● The davit system is removable, integrated with stern arch

● Davit control lift-lower lines run with two to one tackle run through blocks and through a stopper so that it can be done by a solo sailor or even easier as a team

● The new ABI 8’5” dinghy is a fabulous aluminum bottom dinghy which is very light and very strong

● The davit system allows the dinghy to be carried very high (although it is stowed on deck with lifting harness and electric winch for an ocean passage, or anytime)

● LED stern light is mounted on the arch and is very visible

● Flag holder is mounted on the arch and also one on the coaming

● Edson engine mounts are installed port and starboard to carry two outboards, one small and light, and one larger (if you like)

● To starboard is the outboard lifting crane with four to one purchase with the lifting line easily run to the primary sheet winch for ease and safety

● Port side aft in the cockpit is the stern anchor system for the 20lb Danforth anchor stowed on the stern rail

● There is also an anchor reel 2022, it certainly looks impressive

● The chain locker below the propane installation under the removeable locker pan has the chain and rode and also a roller mounted on the stern

Sails and Rigging

Rig and Sail Controls

● True cutter rig with mast well aft to support jib, staysail, and main

● Rod rigging removed, cleaned, and visually inspected in 2018

● Running rigged all new in 2018

● Mast is beautiful, tapered spar with stout double spreaders, waxed annually

● Leather spreader boots sewn on in 2018

● Spreaders have flag halyards port and starboard

● Radome installed on the mast

● Firedell radar reflector above radome

● Foredeck light installed on the mast

● LED steaming light on the mast (all bulbs replaced 2018)

● Masthead wind speed and direction system and Windex

● Mast has mast steps at the top to work aloft at the masthead

● Downwind pole and control system on the mast

● Strong track for storm trysail installed on the mast (added 2018) great for using MateMate system to go aloft

● Navtec rod rigging with permanent aft shrouds make for a stout rig

● Running backstays are ready for use if conditions warrant

● Navtec rod rigging has Navtec hydraulic backstay tensioner serviced 2018

● Mast has line stoppers are installed on the mast for every halyard

● Main halyard Lewmar self-tailing winch is on starboard

● All the winches are self-tailing

● Main sail is raised and reefed at the mast easily

● Electric winch on the cabin house for mainsail with line stoppers

● Deck hardware installed at the factory if you want to lead the main halyard and reef lines to the cockpit, but reefing is easy and fast as it is.

● Headsail halyards to port with stoppers and mast winch

● Downwind MPS sail halyards port and starboard

● Boom has a reefing winch on starboard with line stoppers for reef lines

● Pad-eyes installed on the boom with already rigged offshore preventer system

● Blocks on the boom support the Valiant boom control system installed port and starboard to stabilize the boom and work like a vang, (very different and very nice)

● Dyneema line lazy jack system with hardware on the boom and cleats on the mast

● Topping lift, also Dyneema, doubles as a spare halyard

● Schaefer roller furlers for the jib and staysail with furling lines led aft on the port side through guides and stopper controls and cockpit winch

● Jib sheets are led through the movable jib cars on the deck through turning blocks aft and to the primary sheet winches on the coaming

● The moveable jib sheet cars provide for excellent sail control with adjustment under load with ease and in safety from the cockpit!

● Harken snatch blocks can be attached on the Wichard pad eyes that are semi permanently installed on the aluminum toe rail

● Forward, two blocks for mainsail preventer

● Midship, blocks for jib sheets when reaching

● Aft two blocks for MPS sheets

● MPS -Permanently installed block at the bow on the bow pulpit for Snubber -Permanently installed block at the bow on the bottom for s

● Snatch blocks for as needed controls

 

Sail Inventory

● New ocean cruising sails in 2018, stored in loft, light usage

● New Quantum 125% jib with roller reefing, first reef at 110%

● Quantum staysail with foam luff and reefing points

● Quantum loose footed mainsail with three reefs

● Storm sails, trysail and storm staysail never used

● Downwind MPS with with sock stows in forepeak almost new

 

Controls in the Cockpit

● Primary sheet winches on the coaming port and starboard

● The sheet winches are in easy reach even if you are standing in the steering station, which is perfect for single hand sailing

● Furling line winch to port on the coaming with stoppers, in easy reach of the helm

● Furling lines are color coded and different in thickness so you can feel them as well as see them

● Winches on the cabin house port and starboard for staysail sheets that run to blocks on adjustable mini track on the cabin house

● Lewmar multipurpose electric winch on cabin house to starboard

● Mainsheet is controlled with the traveler located forward of the dodger and through a dedicated line stopper to the electric winch on the cabin house under the dodger

● The stopper makes is possible for the electric winch to be used for other things if need be

● Traveler has control lines with stoppers under the dodger, so it is controlled in the cockpit for safety

● Forward of the dodger is a custom starboard panel to keep water from going under the dodger, only this Valiant has this custom feature

● The cockpit is deep and secure with solid stainless steel stern rail to the boarding gates and the integrated arch

● The cockpit is also long enough to lie down in

● Bridge deck makes it safe for ocean sailing

● The helm is covered by a perfect bimini to protect the helmsman in rain

● The connector piece that attached to the dodger has a windshield so it can be used in inclement weather

● Weather cloths are permanently installed port and starboard

● Pad eyes installed with permanent tether line so you can remain attached stepping behind the wheel for safety and security

 

Miscellaneous and Safety

Dinghy

● AB 8’5” aluminum ultralite stows on davits or on deck

● Avon 8’5” fiberglass bottom inflatable dinghy

● Dinghy cover used when stowed on deck

● Dinghy anchor and rode

● Foot pumps (two)

● Towing lifting bridle

● Fuel tank and hoses

● Yamaha 5hp, 4-stroke OB (very new)

● Yamaha 4.5, 4-stroke OB (used once)

● Yamaha 3hp, 2-stroke OB (tiny and mighty runs great)

● Yamaha 9 hp, 2-stroke OB (just serviced)

 

Safety

● Safety first, last and always in every aspect of design and rigging

● Epirb

● Ditch bag

● Drogue

● Sea anchor

● Storm anchor (FX-35 in bag)

● Storm sails

● Iridium sat phone

 

Other Equipment List

● Plastic bin with all manuals for equipment onboard

● Spares for engine, generator, watermaker, Espar, windvane

● Set of Megabraid docklines

● Inflatable fenders with pump

● Power cord and adaptors (15-amp, 30 amp and 50 amp

● Power cable

● Y connectors for 30 amp/50 amp

● 300’ extra rode

● Rigging cutter

● Fender boards

● Boat hook

● Dinghy outboard handle extension

● Mastmate climber

● Dinghy bilge pump

● Dinghy harness for lifting or dragging

● Boat cover for winter

● SSB radio

● Ocean life preservers (4)

● Jack lines

● Offshore preventer system rigged

● Cockpit strong point/strap for tether