2013 Viking 66' Convertible - Knot Again (Walkthrough)

Thank you for joining us. My name is Doug Donahue. I'm a Viking Yachts sales specialist with HMY Yacht Sales in Palm Beach, Florida. Today we're going to take a preview of a 2013 66 Viking convertible called the Not Again. Welcome aboard. So we enter the salon and this is just a great entertaining space. The 19 feet 1 inch beam really shows through this space. One of the great features about this boat is the day head that is right here by the salon door. You can take a break from fishing, come in here, do whatever you need to do and still look out the window and watch your lines. It's an excellent feature for this model. So this is the main electrical panel. It's an octoplex panel. So there'll be three of these. There'll be one on the crew quarter, one up on the bridge and one here. What's nice about this system is because it's all touchscreen, it eliminates the amount of wire runs that we have to put throughout this boat. And by eliminating those wire runs, we also eliminate about 5,000 pounds of weight on this model. Another nice thing about this system is it's easy to troubleshoot. If you happen to be in Costa Rica, Panama, Cancun, wherever your boat is, if you're having an electrical problem, all you need to do is be able to connect to Wi-Fi and someone at Viking Yachts in New Jersey or the Viking Service Center in Florida can remotely get into your system and reprogram or make any adjustments to this wherever you are in the world as long as you can get Wi-Fi. To the port side is a large pop-up TV and some storage cabinetry below. Forward of that is the galley area. Granite countertops throughout. Island galley so you have 360 degree access to the galley. And again, if you have a bunch of people in here, it's a great utilization of this space. We've had 15, 20 people over for dinner some nights in the Bahamas. So the salon really entertains well in this model. You have Amtico laminate flooring in the galley and Sub-Zero undercounter refrigeration. You have two deep freeze drawers that will go to below zero degrees and then you have four refrigerator drawers which will go down to 32 degrees. You have a large four burner surface mounted Kenyon cooktop. You have a sharp carousel microwave and convection oven. And then you have sliding pantry drawers. And these are nice because you can pull these out and you can get to whatever's here, especially if you're a short person and you don't have to climb up and reach for your pantry items. So the utilization of space in this area is phenomenal. Moving over to the sofa area, it's a large U-shaped sofa. It's a Dewberry style sofa so it comes up on a gas shock. It stays up. This customer had rod storage underneath here while he had the boat. Whatever you can imagine, there's plenty of room for it underneath here. And the cocktail table is high gloss Juno teak with a nice beveled edge and it is a high low table. Moving forward to the dinette area, it is a large U-shaped dinette with a high gloss Juno teak table, ultra leather seating, and a custom backrest. The valances in the boat are also high gloss teak. It gives you a much more richer appearance in the salon. Most of my customers will choose this option because it really sets the boat apart from other boats. All the way forward of the galley is a cocktail ice machine. That's for drink ice. And then forward of that is a large pantry closet. This is about a six foot by six foot area. It's good utilization of space for galley items, whatever you want to do. It fits right in here and it's tucked away. And then there's additional pantry storage to the starboard side. Now let's go down below and look at the living accommodations. All right, so the first room you come to on the port side is the master stateroom. Let's take a look. So the master has a large walk around queen bed, two teak end tables with storage below. And there's a large flat screen TV and two large cedar lined hanging lockers. And to the port side is a large dresser with four storage drawers. Underneath the bed, there's a gas shock again, just like the sofa and plenty of storage underneath here for anything you might want to put in there. It has its own private ensuite head with granite countertop, Amtico flooring, and a headhunter head system. And those are very quiet and it's a wonderful option to have in a sportfish boat like this. The VIP stateroom again has a large queen berth. There is storage underneath the berth, just like the master. It has its own ensuite private head as well with Amtico laminate flooring, granite countertop, recessed medicine chest, headhunter head system, and a large stall shower. In front of the head is a large cedar lined hanging locker. To the starboard side is a flat screen TV and then additional storage. Underneath an access panel in the floor in the VIP stateroom is access to your forward bilge. And here you can see your side power 12 volt DC bow thruster. So that finishes the VIP stateroom. Now we're going to work our way aft to the guest stateroom. Up and lower berths, large hanging locker cedar lined right in front of the bunks. And then that leads into a private ensuite head. Again, there's a granite vanity top, medicine chest, large stall shower, headhunter head and Amtico teak and holly flooring. So directly across the hall, working aft, is a linen closet. And then we're going to continue aft to the washer dryer. These are very quiet units again, just like the heads. They don't make a lot of noise when you're using them. They don't wake people up at night. And then after that is the crew quarter. The crew quarter has an upper and a lower berth, captain and mate. It has a large dresser area with four drawers, hanging locker, flat screen TV. And if you go down the stairs, the crew head has Amtico teak and holly laminate flooring, a recessed medicine chest, granite countertop and vanity, large stall shower and a headhunter head system. And a nice feature about this is there's also access through to the engine room. And it's nice where the crew can get in and out of the boat through the engine room. They're not disrupting the guests and the owners on board when they're getting up early in the morning to prepare for their day. So we enter the engine room through the crew head. And you can see right here on the forward bulkhead is all of your fuel filters. Real easy to get to, real easy to maintain. There's a chilled water system on this boat. So the water that comes in through your intakes is pre-chilled. It keeps the longevity of your compressors and the overall comfort level of the boat better. You have a toolbox over here on the port side. You have a 1400 gallon a day sea recovery water maker. So these are the Caterpillar C32 ACERTs. They're 1925 horsepower. It's been a great engine package for the 66 Viking. She's going to push this boat at a low cruise, 33, 34 knots. And your top end performance is going to be between 40 and 41 knots. It's a very fast boat, fuel efficient haul. It's a great, great engine package for the 66. Moving aft, one of the nice features about this boat is there are two generators for redundancy. The larger one is an Onan 27.5 kW. That is more than enough capacity to run everything on this boat. The spare generator is a 21.5 kW Onan. And whenever you can have two generators in a boat like this, it is a very good option. These black boxes are your Caterpillar digital displays. This is also a nice option in this boat because you can see digitally what the engine's doing. If you have a mechanic down here doing a tune-up, he can get most of the data right here. You can also start and stop the engines from these boxes. So what you can see about this engine room is plenty of headroom, plenty of elbow room, plenty of room to get outboard of anything. Doing maintenance down here is a breeze. And with the 12-cylinder Caterpillar engines, they're a compact engine, so there is plenty of room forward of the engines as well, which is a nice feature to get to your air conditioners and your filters. Another great feature about this engine room is there's two ways in and out. So let's go out to the cockpit. So now we're coming out of the engine room and we're right into the cockpit. All right, so this area right here is the mezzanine. It is a comfortable place to sit and relax, watch your bait. This is a Release Marine teak fighting chair with a stainless steel offset pedestal. In the mezzanine steps, this is an insulated refrigerated drink box. You can keep all your drinks in there. This hatch here can either be a refrigerator or a freezer. It works on a thermostat, so it's a nice insulated box that can deep freeze or chill. And over on the starboard side, same thing. This can deep freeze or chill. And you can see there's a nice custom bait tray in here for any type of rigged bait that you'll be using that day. In the port side cockpit cabinet, there's four tackle center drawers. As we move aft, underneath the coaming, port and starboard side, is gap storage. You have 12 and 24 volt electric reel outlets under here and your Glen Denning cable master. Moving aft to the transom, you have a pass-through transom door and gate. If you're lucky enough to harvest a large sea creature, you can get them in and out of the boat this way. If you want