Apr 29
Syzygy is for SALE
After 11,000 miles of cruising, Syzygy, our 1978 Valiant 40, is for sale. Designed by legend Bob Perry and inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame, Valiants are recognized as some of the world’s finest blue-water cruising vessels, striking a fine balance between performance and comfort. A fiberglass, cutter-rigged sloop that sleeps six, Syzygy is 40′ long (34′ long at the water line), with a 12.5′ beam, a 6′ draft, and 22,500lbs of displacement.
Syzygy is loaded with features that make her seaworthy, tough, efficient, reliable, comfortable, and safe, capable of transoceanic voyages to the wildest destinations.
*SEAWORTHY: Backing plates on all seacocks and deck hardware, including stanchions, padeyes, winches, clutches, jib and staysail tracks. Properly bedded, reinforced, and sealed deck fasteners, so she won’t leak and rot. New chainplates fastened to reinforced knees. You won’t find any other boat, new or old, built this solidly.
*TOUGH: Thick 1970’s fiberglass hull, heavy (7,700lb) lead keel, strong canoe-shaped stern with no weak points.
*EFFICIENT: Compact fluorescent interior lights, fresh water and seawater foot pumps, air/water cooled refrigeration compressor, LED trilight, solar panels, wind generator, self-steering windvane.
*COMFORTABLE: Hard dodger, lee cloths, teak floors, new cushions in all berths, two hatches, extra portlights, gimbaled stove, LED ropelights at pushpit. Because all lines lead to the cockpit, she’s easy to singlehand.
*SAFE: GFCI outlets, external propane locker, fire extinguishers, carbon-monoxide detector, engine alarm, amsteel lifelines and jack lines, mast steps, liferaft, furling jib, boom preventers, numerous anchors, three bilge pumps.
Thanks to a multiyear, $50,000 re-fit, almost all of Syzygy‘s components are brand new, custom, or recently rebuilt.
*NEW: standing rigging, running rigging, clutches, blocks, wiring, plumbing, head, batteries, solar panels, wind generator, outboard motor, anchors, AIS transponder, spinnaker, bottom paint, non-skid, lights, fans.
*CUSTOM: icebox, sink, portlights, table, berth, water tanks, propane locker, stern locker, mast steps, electrical panel, dinghy cradle, radar arch, lazy jacks.
*REBUILT: windvane, engine, furler.
Fastidiously maintained, Syzygy is in fine shape and ready to go. Her engine runs smoothly and her sails have plenty of life left. More importantly, she harbors no mysteries. Under the engine, or in the bilge, or within a panel, you won’t find cruddy hoses, rusty wires, flaking paint, cracked parts, rotten wood, or other maintenance nightmares.
Syzygy also comes with equipment ideal for serious cruisers, including a watermaker, diesel heater, drogue, tow generator, life raft, ditch bag, kayak, scuba gear, library, and extensive tools, parts, and supplies.
Our asking price for Syzygy is U.S. $90,000.
If you’re looking for an unquestionably solid and well-regarded cruising sailboat, without mysteries and headaches, contact Jon { email: j_haradon@hotmail.com } in Colorado, or our broker, Lee Randall, at Ensign Ship Brokers, in Manly, Brisbane, Australia (phone: 07 3396 9066), and we’ll be glad to arrange a tour and sea trial. (Syzygy is currently berthed in Brisbane, Australia, in slip D1 at the East Coast Marina in Manly.)
*For more details on Syzygy‘s engine, sails, rigging, electrical system, power, plumbing, hardware, and accommodations, check out this 7-page PDF, and this 20-page PDF based on Nigel Calder’s Cruising Handbook checklist. Still more details are available from Matt’s extensive Refit Notes, and here on the Syzygy Sailing website.
