Steve - I've been a member of the Valiant lists longer than I've been on
the C&C lists, as I was going to get a V40 before the dot-com crash left
my portfolio worth less than my pickup truck. When Sailnet went
off-line they moved to Yahoo Groups, and it's a pretty active list. (I
was rather surprised that I was invited to join, given that my sense of
humor can get a little over the top, and I was much worse then.)
I'll ask if anyone knows that boat, but it doesn't ring a bell in my
head. (Other than the normal bells that ring constantly.)
Initial thoughts are that for that price you're going to get a project
boat. Heck, I've thought that if I had to fire sale Stella Blue that
would be the sale price, and V40's do tend to have double the value of
an LF38. (Heck, you could strip the engine, electronics and spare parts
from this boat and make 30K, then tow the hull off shore and set it on
fire.)
Note that it's a Uniflite boat. The earliest Uniflite boats weren't
built using the infamous fire-retardant resin, which created the
infamous Valiant hull/deck blister problem, but most of them were. Note
that everyone who has ever owned a Valiant blister boat has sailed
successfully for years without a problem, and it seems to be cosmetic.
If I could have picked one up for 30K 12 years ago, I would have. The
most common structural complaints by older Valiant owners are leaking
around the chainplates and keel/hull separation, which are basic boat
problems and have nothing to do with the design or manufacture.
Wal
you wrote:
It is a Valiant 40 that is giving me the old come hither look.
http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1977/Uniflite-Valiant-2645427/Newport/RI/United-States#.UsHZXvtuBzP
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