Valiant Yachts 50

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The Valiant Yachts 50, on the water

The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.

Footage from The Lazy Geckos ™

Is it for you?

Character

Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.

LivelySea-kindly

Her moderate displacement on a narrow beam gives 38 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.

Comfort ratio 38

CoastalBluewater

At 1.69 she sits well under the 2.0 line — a solidly ocean-capable hull for her size.

Capsize screening 1.69

LightHeavy

243 — moderately heavy for her waterline, a balanced cruising weight.

Displacement / length 243

EasygoingPowered-up

15.0 — moderate power for her weight; steady, all-round performance.

Sail area / displacement 15.0

TenderStiff

31% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.

Ballast 31%

A capable offshore cruiser with an easy motion when the sea gets up.

Heavier than ~84% of boats her size on file

Compared with 1632 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Valiant Yachts 50, as the fleet has seen it

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The Valiant Yachts 50 is a Robert H. Perry-designed cutter, built by Valiant Yachts from 1994 to 2011, based on the Valiant 47 hull but with a bowsprit and a mast moved 13 inches forward. It has a fin keel with a rudder on a skeg, measures 15.4 meters LOA, 4.2 meters beam, and 1.9 meters draft, displacing 16,102 kg. A shoal keel option with a 5.5-foot draft was available. A 2002 Valiant 50 toured by The Lazy Geckos ™ at the Southern California Boat Show featured a custom interior with a single head, emphasizing expanded living space.1:31 The show itself accommodated deep-draft vessels, and representatives for the ARC Pacific rally outlined safety requirements for participants, including AIS transponders and life rafts.8:38

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

What they go for

Market signal

Where the fleet has seen this model come up for sale.

1seen for sale

1channel looked into buying

The owners are selling it after living aboard for 12 years and moving ashore
from The Lazy Geckos ™ seen November 20170:36

From the fleet's own footage — our observed signal, not broker listings.

The record

Full specifications

The complete reference set — tap any figure to switch between metric and imperial.

Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

31.0%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Cutter

Ratios

SA / displacement

15.0

Displacement / length

243.0

Comfort ratio

38.3

Capsize screening

1.69

Hull speed

8.5 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

1989

Hull

Hull type

Fin with rudder on skeg

Construction

Fiberglass

Ballast type

Lead

Production

Years built

1994–2011

Designer

Robert H. Perry

Builder

Valiant

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The family

Related models

The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.

Valiant 47A Robert Perry-designed cutter with a skeg-hung rudder, built for offshore passage-making and later evolved into the 50 Valiant Yachts 42A Robert Perry-designed offshore cutter featuring a skeg-hung rudder and a heavy displacement hull for blue-water stability Valiant Yachts 39A Robert Perry-designed cutter evolved from the Valiant 37 with an updated deck, coach roof, and bowsprit Valiant Yachts 42RSA raised-saloon cutter offering increased interior volume and headroom for long-range offshore cruising Valiant Yachts 32A Robert Perry-designed cutter with a skeg-hung rudder, built for offshore stability and occasionally rigged as a sloop Valiant 40 PHA Robert Perry-designed offshore cruiser featuring a reconfigured deck and mast position for improved balance

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