Viking Express

Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:

One stateroom, with one head, galley and salon, with high gloss teak interior and high grade Berber carpet through out.

The Salon
Huge L shaped leather sofa with hide away bunk that opens to a double bed. The rest of the sofa has a generous amount of storage below. The entertainment center is forward to port featuring a remote controlled TV, VCR, CD and stereo system with speakers in the salon, helm deck, cockpit and owners stateroom. There is a custom clear table, plenty of throw pillows and indirect lighting through out. The Salon and Galley have a separate A/C system, also with reverse style heating and a built in dehumidifier controlled through an SMX digital control system. The L shaped sofa was just recovered in white high grade leather. All of the headliners throughout have been replaced in white-white to match the sofa. New coverlets and throw pillows as well.

• Master Stateroom has a Centerline queen berth with quilted coverlets, designer thro pillows, shams, and custom fitted sheets. Mirrored anchor locker bulkhead. Two overhead reading lamps, hull side shelves, hull side stowage lockers at eye level (two port, three starboard), port side hanging locker with cedar liner, padded hull sides, indirect lighting and a stereo speaker. This stateroom also has a separate A/C system with reverse style heating and built in dehumidifier operating through an SMX digital control panel. There are three large drawers below the berth and extra large storage below the berth forward.
• The head is private to the owner’s stateroom and accessible from the Salon and Galley area. There is a full sized stand up separate shower stall, all Gelcoat interior for easy maintenance, fresh water VacuFlush head with holding tank, a full sized sink, vanity, mirror and plenty of towel storage below the sink. The deck is Vinyl and the head is air conditioned, temperature controlled from the owners stateroom.

• Furuno Radar w/Daybrite 10" Screen
• Furuno Color Video FCV-292 w/10" Screen
• Ray Marine C-80 8" Chart Plotter/GPS
• Ray Marine 650 Auto Pilot
• NorthStar 800 Loran C
• Icom IC M-59 VHF Radio
• ACR spotlight
• Helm and Tower Controls
• Sea 2250 Single side band Radio
• Icom M-59 VHF in Tower
• Detroit Diesel Dual ELectronic Diaplays w/all Gauges, Temps, Tachs, Fuel Flow Meters, Gear Oil and Temp and a Self Diagnostic Center
• Single Lever Electric Controls
• Electronic Detroit with Manual Back up with Controls
• Ritchie 8" Compass
• Hynautic Steering System Helm and Tower
• Trim Tabs

Full ten step Pipe Welders Tower including six tower leg rod holders, six place rod rack across aft hard top, fiberglass hard top in tower sunshade, two 110 quartz lights, tower seat with new cushions, custom back rest with two rod holders, Rupp Antennae stand off brackets, Rupp Double Spreader Outriggers with collapsible back bars, tower control box, life raft in canister mounted on hard top, custom low profile bow rail with bow pulpit and windlass having cat head and chain sprocket. Custom Strobe Light in Tower and Center Rigger.

• Single Lever Electronic Controls
• Hynautic Steering
• 4" Ritchie compass
• ACR Spotlight Controls
• Dual Tachs for Main Engines
• NorthStar 952 GPS with Plotter
• Data Marine Digital Temp
• Depth, Water Temp and Speed
• Start and Stop buttons
• Seperate Icom M-59 VHF
• Audio Engine Alarms

Features a huge L shaped lounge to port and a full length lounge to starboard  with cushions. The helm deck area is also fully carpeted and has four sided enclosures with one U zip forward, two on each side and a large one aft, as well as a full length zip out door. The helm seat is double wide with a reversible backrest. Other amenities include separate stowage locker and the forward side has a padded bolster for standing up like a leaning post. There is a hydraulic center window operated from the helm, three windshield wipers, a custom “blacked out” forward dash area and covers for the sliding door and all instrumentation. Two overhead teaser reels and overhead quartz lamps.

Full sized fighting chair with cushions, transom live bait well, full sized Tuna door and top hinging gate, custom step box, cable master shore power cord rewind system, fresh and salt water wash down systems, dockside water inlet. The built in tackle lockers were painted including the door frames and locker doors. On the port side is a top loading freezer, next inboard is sink with fresh water sink and cutting board, below is tackle storage in drawers and centerline is the access to the engine room. The starboard side is all open storage lockers and there is a giant below deck insulated fish box, gaff racks below the gunnels on both sides, transom hause holes for dock lines and six flush mount rod holders.

Totally awl gripped out white, generator, an 8 kw Onan with separate Racor fuel filter, emergency pump out system on both main engines. Both 110 and DC lighting, 110 VT engine room blower fans, stainless steel hot water heater, a Sentry 80 amp battery charging system, automatic fire fighting systems that can be manually set off from the helm, Air Septs on both main engines, fresh water filters, Racor fuel filters for main engines, drip less shaft seals, high volume fresh water pump w/accumulator tank.  Murphy manual engine gauges for temp and oil pressure for both main engines. Both engines do have Block Heaters which truly do extend the life of any engine.

To follow is the performance sheet we made up on the 43 Viking Express, before and after installing the lifting rails aft and the spray rails forward. In addition to these accomplishments the biggest plus was the DRY RIDE!!!!!

If you have run one of these boats in any kind of sea, you will be totally impressed with what huge change this boat has to offer. Not only super dry ride, but she comes up top quicker, most especially loaded for a two day trip! Stays on top at lesser RPM's, rides flatter, so you get better view.  Plus – the “load’ went down at every RPM, Temp went down on all RPM and fuel burned was substantially less at every RPM…speed was up at most every RMP -  which makes more range out of every tank of Fuel!

A total "win-win" addition and the reason Viking never did this is because the hull wouldn't come out of a mold with these on.... And it doesn't affect you at haul out time because the lifting straps go forward of the aft rails and aft of the forward rails.      

• All of the non skid including the bow deck, side companion ways and gunnel's, cockpit deck and helm deck.