Viking Yachts announces their newest model - the 82' Viking!

Hi, I would like to welcome everybody to the Viking Yacht Company. It's April 1st and besides it being April Fool's Day, it's the 60th anniversary of the Viking Yacht Company. So 60 years ago today, my father, my uncle opened the doors in New Gretna to become the Viking Yacht Company. And along with it being April 1st, we wanted to do an introduction of our new 82 Viking. And today I proudly stand here on another great teamwork by all of our co-builders, our designers, our engineers to building a better boat. The boat that it's replacing, the 80, was the most successful 80-foot boat ever built in this industry's history. Hours with our demo team accomplishing over the last three demos, we've had over 1,500 hours of teamwork of our design, our engineers, out experiencing something very special. The greatest thing about what we do here at the Viking Yacht Company, we don't sit on our laurels of engineering and design. We have delivered four boats in the 80 and 90-foot range than any other company in the history of this industry. How that has been done is constantly improving the product. The one biggest thing that we see that is going to make this boat special is the advanced propulsion system. That is having the twisted rudders and also the struts to give us better performance. This boat at 82 feet is projected to sea trial and perform just as the 80. And that being a cruise speed of 36 knots and a top-end speed of 42 knots. That's full of fuel. And that is a two-way average. As the boat lightens up with fuel, you'll see speeds above 43 plus knots and cruise speeds approaching 37 knots. Through our fiberglass technology, we've been able to build the boat at the same weight. All of our weight checks so far have been good. We've already had it in the water. We've already put a boot top on it. Two orders have all been checked. It's sitting exactly at the weight we've designed it for at this stage of completion. Over these next couple weeks, we're going to have updates coming to you almost every other day with performance, running shots. As the boat finishes, as the tower goes on it. And we'll all culminate in Atlantic City in the first week of June when we do our dealer meeting and also initial sea trials with all of our customers on the new 82 Viking. And the greatest thing is it will also be in Moorhead, Bermuda, and the typical White Marlin Open, Mid-Atlantic, and down through the Carolinas. Please come and visit us anywhere you want and take a tour of the new 82 Viking.