Valiant Nordic

GENERAL INFORMATION: “OSCAR” has been owned by her current owners for 12 years.  A job related move from Florida to Hawaii makes it necessary to sell their beloved sailing home. The owners are an Architect and a Professor of Cruise Ship Architectural Interiors, and the upgrades and design influences of their professions have created a Bob Perry yacht beyond comparison!!“OSCAR” is the perfect example of a classic Perry offshore cutter design. Yacht designer, Robert Perry selected the VALIANT/NORDIC/ESPRIT 37’ as his own personal yacht and successfully cruised and raced his VALIANT/NORDIC/ESPRIT 37’ on Puget Sound for a number of years. Of the many hundreds of yachts Mr. Perry designed, it is noteworthy, that of the all of the yachts available, Mr. Perry selected the VALIANT/NORDIC/ESPRIT 37’ for his own and along with his wife, cruised and successfully raced this beautiful boat. The listing broker for “OSCAR” also owned and lived aboard a Valiant/Nordic/Esprit 37’Featuring the classic, sea kindly Robert Perry designed tumblehome double ended hull form, bulwarks, dorades, opening ports, oversize rod rigging and superb quality construction, the Valiant/Nordic/Esprit 37’ is built to world class standards. Performance, safety and comfort have become synonymous with Valiant/Nordic/Esprit and in no small way, are responsible for its success.We believe that the yachtsman who purchases a cruising yacht has the right to the best design in terms of comfort, strength, appearance and performance…. ”OSCAR” IS SUCH A YACHT !!!!The VALIANT/NORDIC/ESPRIT 37’ was conceived in the success of the Valiant 40’ as a smaller, more contemporary looking variation of the Valiant/Nordic/Esprit  double ended hull form. The VALIANT/NORDIC/ESPRIT 37’ is the culmination of the vast knowledge than can only be gained by experience and the VALIANT/NORDIC/ESPRIT 37’ embodies all that has made yacht designer, Bob Perry’s Valiant’s, Nordic’s and Esprit’s  the “ultimate” in sailing yachts, with the concept of a performance cruiser, to a true over-the-horizon passage maker.World renown Bluewater Sailors have labeled the VALIANT/NORDIC/ESPRIT 37’ a "bulletproof cruiser’s delight." Circumnavigator Mark Schrader called it a "bombproof boat built to take someone out to sea and bring him back intact." Strong  sentiments indeed, for a very capable sailboat. Noted author and sailor, John Kretschmer also notes the 37’ as one of his selected offshore yachts.  Designer Robert Perry’s canoe-stern staple has become a blue-water icon of sorts for long-distance sailors, from a generation of singlehanded around-the-world racers to oceangoing cruising families with a yen for far horizons.By modern standards she is a straightforward vessel characterized by a subtle sheer, considerable tumblehome, deep-V sections beneath the waterline forward, a fin keel and a skeg-hung rudder. In other words she’s a reliable, conservative platform for doing decidedly un-conservative things -- like sailing across oceans. Construction details read like a primer on how to build a boat. The hull is laid up in one piece of solid glass, hand laminated with alternate layers of mat and woven roving. The keel consists of 6,300 pounds of external lead, the rig is a keel-stepped, standing rigging port and starboard terminates at chain plates secured with stainless bolts and backing plates to hefty structural knees bonded into the hull.In the realm of accommodations and amenity, this is a genuine passage maker, with emphasis on what’s functional, comfortable and safe at sea, not on how many showers you can fit into 37’ feet of hull. To wit, there is one head, located on the port side forward of the salon, cleverly connected to, but separate from a single shower stall.“OSCAR” features the classic, sea kindly Robert Perry designed tumblehome double ended hull form, dorades, opening ports, oversize rigging and superb quality construction, which means the VALIANT/NORDIC/ESPRIT 37’ is built to world class standards. Performance, safety and comfort have become synonymous with Valiant/Nordic/Esprit  and in no small way, are responsible for its success. Valiant/Nordic/Esprit owners are unanimous in their conviction that their Valiant/Nordic/Esprit’s are exceptional blue water passage makers.Show More