Valiant 40 (200-235) Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull type

Monohull · fin

Rig

Cutter

LOA

39.92' · 12.17 m

Displ.

23,520 lbs · 10,668 kg

First year

1978

The Valiant 40 is widely regarded as the progenitor of the "performance cruiser" category, a design that successfully challenged the 1970sera assumption that a heavyduty offshore yacht had to be slow and cumbersome. Designed by Robert Perry and introduced in 1973, the model broke tradition by combining a traditional canoe stern with a modern fin keel and skeghung rudder. This specific production run, encompassing hulls 200 through 235, represents the peak of the model's original construction era at the Uniflite factory in Bellingham, Washington. While these hulls are celebrated for their offshore pedigree and induction into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame, they are also inextricably linked to specific material challenges of the late 1970s petrochemical crisis.