1999 Viking Express | 50ft

This is a rare opportunity to own a clean well maintained 50 Viking express with loads of updates and open checkbook policy. 

ts the popular 50 Open model that offers a spacious air-conditioned helm deck with triple Stidd chairs and a comfortable settee and drink table. ALL NEW ELECTRONICS at the helm and in the tower were installed at the end of 2017. A new TOTAL ENCLOSURE was installed in March of 2019. New cockpit bolster, and seat cushion. The interior finish and upholstery is in like-new-condition! This boat has a full paint job completed in 2008 with light blue hull and white decks and superstructure. The single stateroom layout gives the interior more space while the pullman berth arrangement still provides the sleeping accommodations if needed.  Some of the more recent updates on this boat include a new Full Enclosure, covered bolsters, 17.5kW generator, Simrad autopilot, New Touch Screen Garmin GPS/Chartplotters, cockpit freezer compressor, battery charger, and air-conditioning system updates. The motors have been regularly maintained with an open checkbook. 

Contact our Professional JCYS Listing Broker Albert DiBenedetto @ 732/567-3857 or albert@jerseycapeyachtsales.com

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

Updates/Upgrades

Boat gets full detail and weekly washes by Premier Management

Winter 2025

New Cushions and at helm seating area and bolsters.

New bottom paint 

Hull Detail

Spring 2024 

NEW single lever controls at helm and tower controls- $15,000

Electronic controls adjusted and reprogrammed

New Lumitech under gunnel LED light bars under gunnel

NEW cockpit grille

ALL NEW HOSESIN ENGINE ROOM and lazarette

New AC/chipper pump 

New starboard head pump

New shower pump 

New windshield wipers

NEW fusion hide away head unit with monitor 

Spring 2023 

New dripless shaft seals

New cutlass bearing in primary and intermediate struts

Props tuned and balanced all by viking yachts new Gretna

Shafts checked and rotated by viking yachts

Summer 2023 

ALL new Batteries

March 2022

Full ZF transmission service including oil coolers, transmission oil and filters

Palm Beach controls serviced and rebuilt

Torsion Couplings borescope

All work done by Authority Marine

NEW 2021

Complete new fuel system on both motors by Bass River Diesel including

Both motors boroscoped

KVH SAT DOME tower top 

Valve adjustment by Bass River Diesel

Powder coated Valve covers 

Racor assembly on Starboard side

New bottom paint and prop speed 

Full Survey 3/16/21

Oil Samples taken on both motors 3/21

Boat detailed and washed weekly by Premier yacht management 

Walkthrough

This 50' Viking Open has been updated & improved over the past several years and will be a great fishing boat for it's next owner.  In May 2008 the boat had a complete paint job which additionally involved freshening of all aspects of the exterior. Shining ice blue hull with white rub rail and topsides, in 2011 the windshield frame was refinished white and all new rubber.  With a sleek, low-profile design this boat has an attractive presence both at the dock and on the water.  Perfect for the owner who wants a substantial boat you can run yourself without being separated from activities on deck or in the cockpit.  

Entering the cockpit you notice the coaming pads and a transom box before passing the rocket launcher to go up three steps to the huge temperature-controlled bridge deck.  To the portside aft is a large L-shape settee with triangular white fiberglass table in front.  To the starboard side is another smaller bench seating area and just forward a prep center with rigging table, insulated drink box, and below a refrigerator with mini-freezer.  Three white/chrome Stidd adjustable helm & companion chairs with footrests face the forward windshield.  Track-to-track enclosure fills hardtop to windshield top offering excellent vision in all directions from every seat.  U-zips open on the sides and aft panel combined with two overhead hatches in the hardtop if fresh breeze is the choice over the reverse-cycle air conditioning units.  The hardtop has integral lighting and custom overhead hanging rod storage beneath.  The helm has all electronics low and facing the captain with a fiberglass helm pod topped by a chrome bezelled analog instrument cluster, single lever controls and a aluminum custom wheel.  Just to the right the smoked plexi and white metal framed door slides open to enter the cabin.

Four steps down into the well appointed interior with teak and holly Amtico flooring throughout with neutral bound-edge tight berber carpeting secured on all traffic surfaces.  Two comfortable settees are cocoa leatherette covered and the larger L-shape to the portside forward has a high-low table that serves it.  The galley with white Corian bullnose countertop is aft and has under-counter refrigeration, hideaway stovetop and molded sink.  Cabinets, table and doors are Viking hi-gloss finished and are in excellent condition.  Immediately to the starboard side upon entry is a convenient day head, followed going forward by the A/V cabinet.  Above the galley is a newer flat panel TV which is attached to a door that opens with a storage cabinet behind it.  The starboard side settee has a pullman berth that drops down to make bunks when needed.  Moving forward there is a door to the stateroom and just to the left a door to the head.  The stateroom has a centerline queen berth with drawer storage beneath as well as lifting up for additional storage forward.  The stateroom has a cedar-lined hanging locker, flat-panel TV, separate A/C zone with digital control, and doored & shelf storage either side outboard.  There is a private entry door to the head which has a good-sized shower with seat, molded solid-surface vanity top with mirrored medicine cabinet above.  The cabin gets natural light and ventilation through three overhead deck hatches, one in the stateroom and two in the main cabin.

Galley

Master

The master stateroom features a raised platform centerline queen berth with teak cabinetry to either side and a mirrored headboard forward.  A blue & white tropical print bedspread is accented with shams and decor pillows.  Port & starboard cedar-lined hanging locker & storage cabinet.  There is also storage beneath the berth.  There is a private door to the head which has a mirrored medicine cabinet, neutral colored solid surface vanity top with molded sink, and a good sized shower stall. 

Electronics

ALL NEW ELECTRONICS PACKAGE INSTALLED LATE 2017

•    Dual 18 inch Garmin Touchscreen Displays 

•    Garmin 10 inch display in tower

•    Simrad Autopilot

•    Garmin Multi-function display at helm and in tower

•    1kw Transducer CHIRP normal beam

•    1kw Transducer CHIRP high/low wide beam

•    ICOM M-127 VHF at helm

•    ICOM M4242G VHF in tower with Dash Command Mic 

•    New Comrod VHF Antennae and Wire run

•    Fusion MS-NRX300 stereo system with I-pod plug 

•    JL Audio Speakers (4)

•    ACR 100 remote spotlight control

•    12 Volt Auxiliary plug in

•    New Bennett Trim Tab Control

•    FLIR M200 

Tower Electronics

Tower Electronics 

A/V systems

A/V Systems 

Deck and Hull equipment

Boat was fully painted with white topsides and ice blue hull in May 2008.  In April 2010 there was repaint & texturing of all non-skid decks and in March 2011 a repaint (white) & new gasketing of the windshield.  Full tower (5-step) with molded hardtop over helm-deck including overhead LED lighting & molded running lights.  Those LED lights plus step light and under gunwale light can be color selected to red/white/blue.  The tower platform has molded spreader lights (2 cockpit, 1 forward) and the buggy top is fiberglass.  Tower station has a full helm with ZF controls (new 4/11), tachs, trim tab controls, start-stops, compass & electronics.  There is also a bench seat with footrest and full belly band padding (new 1/19).  

Factory pulpit with aluminum bow rail, stainless anchor chute, Fortress anchor, chain lead rode, and Simpson Lawrence electric, self-tailing, windlass with remote control from helm and foot switches.  Wrap-around windshield has track-to-track NEW full enclosure (1/19) up to the hardtop and three windshield wipers.  Hatch gaskets and gas-shock rams (stainless steel) throughout cockpit & helm deck replaced.

Helm Deck has three Stidd white & chrome adjustable helm seats across the front.  Two Cruiseair reverse-cycle air-conditioning units provide comfort.  Viking helm pod is centerline with Palm Beach style stainless single lever controls and upright electronics panel. Excellent visibility. 

Electrical System

Electrical System 

Fishing Equipment & Cockpit

An open-styled sportfish with a full-sized cockpit (140 square feet). Tackle center forward has cockpit freezer, engine room entrance and instead of the rigging sink there is a Kenyon electric grill.  Electric reel plugs beneath the coaming corners. Transom box is plumbed as a live well, plus there is a under deck circular livewell on the portside. A large under deck fishbox with 2 hatches and to the starboard side is an Eskimo crushed ice bin (or second fish box). Fiberglass rocket launcher with rigging tray on 4" stanchion.  Beneath the gunwales there are stereo speakers & lighting. Hanging rod storage under hardtop & in ER. 

Mechanical Equipment

Twin 1050hp 10-cylinder MAN main engines have approximately 6200 total hours.  BOTH engines were overhauled in March of 2010. Currently 3300 on rebuilds. In 2016 engines had a 1000hr MAN service performed by Ingalls Marine Diesel. In spring 2021 another 1000k hour service was performed including all NEW 20 injectors, fuel pumps and fuel lines. All service since has been performed by Bass River Diesel. We have records and receipts available upon request.