Vessel Walk Through or Overview

“AEI” is such a great yacht it’s hard to find a place to start. Aside from the fact that the Viking 72 is one of the best performing sport fishers ever built, there is far more to “AEI” than meets the eye.  She was designed and purpose built to get away from shore and fish for multiple days in ultimate comfort without interruption. Every system has been meticulously planned out in detail to make her guests comfortable and safe. The owners experience with Viking’s gave him a unique perspective on building this yacht which resulted in multiple redundant systems to eliminate downtime due to mechanical failures. Systems were either upgraded in size and quality or doubled to meet his stringent requirements. She makes and purifies her own water thru 2 water makers and a double bypass spot zero system. Her Windlass and thruster are Hydraulic and designed for robust extended use, not electric. She has extra refrigeration and freezers with isolated compressors to prevent total system shutdowns. “AEI” also has an upgraded Centralized seawater system. It’s the same one used in the 80 Viking with an added Electrosea system to prevent growth in all her sea water supplied components like the air conditioning, and refrigeration systems that are so important and costly to clean. All the mechanical upgrades and features are mentioned below in the full specifications. Moving to the interior, AEI features a fully custom 5 stateroom layout. The VIP forward has quad bunks that were designed so that 4 full sized adults can comfortably sleep. Bunk heights, Mattress thickness, bed rail positions and even the drawer storage was carefully considered to provide comfort and the best use of space. The same process was used throughout the rest of the staterooms including her opulent owners’ stateroom. In the salon and throughout the vessel you’ll find a look more reminiscent of a Carolina custom boat with heavy use of satin walnut trim to enhance walls, ceilings, windows, and cover unsightly exposed fasteners. The galley and salon feature two tone quartz and Cambria counters, additional refrigeration and custom cabinetry layouts. Carpeting is sculpted and double padded for a rich look & comfortable feel. Both flybridge and cockpit decks are clad with teak and the custom look continues around the vessel with a Faux teak painted salon door and toe rails. Built for serious fishing this vessel has custom rod storage closets inside, Palm beach towers custom hard top, hydraulic outriggers, 4 massive teaser reels, a Blue water custom fighting chair and much, much more. This fine 72 Viking has everything you need and nothing you don’t.

• MTU 2635 HP engines with 5 year 4000hr warranties
• Twin 29.5 KW Generators
• Completely custom Centralized seawater system with upgraded pumps the same as used on the 80 Viking
• Seakeeper 26 Gyro stabilizer
• Hydraulic bow thruster and windlass
• 5 stateroom 4 head layout with 10 berths to sleep 12
• Satin Walnut interior
• Custom Tackle closet with see thru door and tri colored backlight
• 2 watermakers
• 2 Eskimo ice makers
• Helm Air and Cool Breeze Mezzanine Air
• Rite Air system for high quality humidity controlled AC
• Custom PBT Hardtop with full aft tower legs, Hydraulic riggers, and 2 sets of supersized 2 speed teaser reels
• Teak cockpit, Mezzanine, coamings, covering boards, and flybridge floor
• Faux teak painted salon door and toe rails
• Windlass chute thru bow stem
• Bluewater Chairs helm chairs and fighting chair
• Tuna tubes
• Willy vac
• Comprehensive AME electronics package
• 360 Sonar

Salon

• Walnut Interior Satin Finish Throughout
• Custom WBC interior design
• Custom Amtico Flooring
• Additional TV On Bulkhead above Dinette, black bezel
• Interior ball camera above dinette
• Air conditioning with reverse cycle heat that circulates from concealed registers behind the valances to maximize comfort while minimizing noise and drafts — individual temperature control
• All valences, curtain boards, soffits, wire boxes and window frames made of walnut. No fabric
• Custom walnut trim fashioned to fully conceal any exposed fasteners throughout entire salon
• Walnut headliner strips 3” wide
• Custom walnut AC return in ceiling
• All drawer hardware square satin metal finish
• Pop up TV tabletop and bar counter top finished in black Cambria
• Blinds for desired natural lighting and additional privacy
• Cabinetry with drawers and bottle storage w/ custom bottle configuration and size for larger bottles
• Day head at aft end of salon
• Cocktail table, Custom from release marine with cover
• U shaped dinette with storage below seats
• Dinette table, Custom from release marine with cover
• Drawer beneath dinette split into two drawers with dividers instead of one large drawer that is hard to open
• Amtico flooring at salon entrance and wall-to-wall carpet with double lined padding
• Home theater center with 55” HD TV on a raise and lower mechanism with antenna or cable hook-up
• Upgraded Marantz Surround sound stereo entertainment system IPO Bose with speakers concealed in AC registers
• L shaped lounge with storage underneath, Dewberry style with full access hinged backrest and end table with drawers adjacent to galley
• Lighting, indirect decorative rope lighting behind valances
• Lighting, overhead LED lights, square, recessed in headliner with dimmer switches
• Main electrical panel with AC selector breakers and touch screen monitor
• Pillows, decorative throws for sofa
• Wood on aft side of galley island
• Clear Ice maker in salon, upgraded to U-line in place of standard
• Manual salon door

Galley

• Open Galley layout with raised overhang counter
• 3 bar stools at galley overhang trimmed in custom diamond stitched ultra-leather with seat backs and footrests
• Custom backsplash tile in Mosaic pattern
• Sub-Zero drawer refrigeration and freezer under counter consisting of 2 sets of 27” wide refrigerator units and 2 sets of 24” wide freezer units for a total of 8 drawers. Standard is 6
• Trash compactor deleted and replaced with additional bank of drawer storage
• Electric range, 4 burner surface mounted cooktop
• Conventional oven under surface mount stovetop
• Custom Cambria Countertops throughout galley in light quartz and galley overhang in black Cambria for a bold two-tone appearance
• Exhaust Fan
• Amtico flooring throughout galley
• Garbage Disposal
• Storage drawers and cabinets beneath galley counter
• Storage cabinets above forward galley counter
• Double bowl stainless steel sink with pull out faucet
• Microwave/convection over located in upper galley cabinet
• Pantry forward of galley/dinette, walk in with customized storage space and cabinetry extending into brow and fully custom rod and reel storage built in aft
• Deleted storage insert next to pantry door to utilize full depth and installed custom Maple shelving

Companionway

• Awlgrip bilge areas with access hatches, snow white and lighted for easier maintenance and cleaning
• Central vacuum unit connection with accessories
• Flooring, carpeted steps from galley through companionway
• Laundry center with stackable, front-loading washer and dryer behind custom louvered walnut door for proper venting of dryer while remaining closed when in operation
• Custom Rod locker cabinet with glass door and tri colored lighting including fully customized rod and reel storage system inside and Amtico flooring
• Lighting, overhead LED lights recessed in headliner
• Staircase, curved, with banister along starboard companionway side with storage compartments
• Custom walnut toe kick paneling alongside of companionway stair steps
• Custom wood molding at top of companionway steps
• Vertical walnut wood strips in companionway seams
• Master stateroom entry door widened to 24” and opens forward
• 2 color wall panels in custom headliner material and installed above and below horizontal companionway wood strips
• Custom companionway closet with 3 shelves forward of hull side credenza adjacent to stbd stateroom

Master Stateroom

• Air conditioning with reverse cycle heat that circulates from concealed registers behind the valances to maximize comfort while minimizing noise and drafts – individual temperature control
• King-size walk-around fore and aft bed with mattress and custom quilted designer style bedspread
• His and her closets to port maple lined. Aft closet traditional 50/50 split over under with drawers beneath & fitted with safe
• Forward double door closet fitted with shelving for bulk storage
• Cubby at outboard side of bed with USB charging ports and 120V traditional plug for charging of phones and storage of small items like wallets, phones, i-pad’s etc.
• Custom clothes hamper beneath outboard nightstand in place of drawers
• Drawer storage under bed, (2) large drawers, port and starboard bank
• End table starboard side of bed with drawer storage
• Full length mirror framed in walnut adjacent to MSR door
• Custom upholstered Headboard
• Custom headliner,
• Lighting, decorative indirect rope from underneath bed platform and behind valances in LED
• Lighting overhead in LED lights recessed in headliner with dimmer switches
• Mattress custom Handcraft
• Pillow shams with designer throw pillows
• Reading lights, overhead with separate switches
• Custom Master stateroom tray ceiling molding done in walnut in place of upholstered wood

Master Head

• Custom Amtico Flooring
• Quartz Vanity Top
• Air conditioning/heat with register in soffit
• Exhaust fan vent installed in shower in place of soffit
• Overhead LED lights recessed in soffit and in ceiling
• Linen storage
• Lower vanity with curved walnut face
• Medicine cabinet with mirrored doors
• Mirror around upper vanity insert
• Receptacle, 120V – GFCI
• Stall shower in fiberglass with satin nickel shower fixtures and with drain to automatic sump pump in bilge
• One-piece custom frameless glass shower door
• Storage cabinet with shelves and mirrored door
• Towel bar and ring in satin nickel

Forward Stateroom

• Air conditioning/heat with temperature control
• Custom VIP layout with 4 bunks. All bunks raised and bunk rails lowered for ease of entry and maximum headroom and comfort.
• Custom headliner material installed under upper bunks for finished appearance
• Storage under lower bunks both sides, custom carpeted in place of fiberglass
• Forward stateroom bulkhead to be walnut
• Custom walnut A/C return vent
• Cubby under stateroom hanging closet with 120V plug and 2 USB ports, Drawer storage underneath
• Bedspreads are quilted designer style
• Lighting- decorative indirect rope lighting from underneath bed platform and behind valances in LED
• Lighting overhead in LED lights recessed in headliner with dimmer switches
• Forward stateroom mattresses to be 4” poly foam to provide more usable room above the mattress
• Custom designer style pillow shams

Forward Head

• Custom Amtico Flooring
• Custom Quartz Vanity Top
• Air conditioning/heat with register in soffit
• Exhaust fan with vent in shower stall
• Overhead LED lights recessed in soffit and in ceiling
• Lower vanity with curved walnut face
• Medicine cabinet with mirrored doors
• Mirror around upper vanity insert
• Receptacle, 120V – GFCI
• Stall shower in fiberglass with satin nickel shower fixtures and with drain to automatic sump pump in bilge
• Towel bar and ring in satin nickel

Port Stateroom

• Air conditioning/heat with temperature control and vent in soffit
• Soffit air vent to be wood in place of Fabric
• Upper and lower bunks with 5” poly foam mattresses to maximize guest space in bunks
• Upper bunk raised and bed rail lowered to provide easier access to lower bunk
• Underside of upper bunk lined in headliner material for finished look
• Lower bunk storage to be two pull out drawers in place of lift up storage hatch
• Custom closet to extend to full stateroom height with hanging clothes on top and drawer storage beneath as well as Cubby w/ USB and AC outlets for charging of phones
• Quilted designer style bedspread and pillow shams
• Decorative indirect rope lighting from underneath bed platform and behind valances
• Lighting, overhead LED lights and courtesy rope lighting underneath lower bunk rail, LED and behind valances
• En-suite access to port head

Port Head

• Amtico Flooring
• Quartz Vanity Top
• Air conditioning/heat with register in soffit
• Exhaust fan with vent in shower stall
• Overhead LED lights recessed in soffit and in ceiling
• Lower vanity with curved walnut face
• Medicine cabinet with mirrored doors
• Mirror around upper vanity insert
• Receptacle, 120V – GFCI
• Stall shower in fiberglass with satin nickel shower fixtures and with drain to automatic sump pump in bilge
• Towel bar and ring in satin nickel

Starboard Stateroom

• Air conditioning/heat with temperature control
• Upper and lower bunks with Poly foam 4” mattress to maximize space in bunks
• Upper bunk raised to maximize space in lower bunk and headliner material added to underside of upper bunk for finished appearance
• Deleted end table and installed drawer beneath lower bunk with divider to add space to the stateroom
• Pushed length of the stateroom aft into dead space created by companionway locker to gain full length bunks
• Cubby installed on Aft wall of stateroom with USB and AC receptacle plugs
• Quilted designer style bedspread and pillow shams
• Decorative indirect rope lighting from underneath bed platform and behind valances
• Lighting, overhead LED lights and courtesy rope lighting underneath lower bunk rail, LED and behind valances

Day Head

• Located Aft in salon on stbd side just inside salon cockpit entrance
• Air conditioning/ heat with register in soffit
• Exhaust fan with vent in soffit
• Amtico flooring
• Lighting, overhead LED lights recessed in soffit and ceiling
• Lower vanity with curved walnut face
• Window with blind

Crew/Capt

• Air conditioning/heat with temperature control
• Deleted upper bunk
• Lower bunk raised and extended all the way outboard & widened into a double sized bed for Capt. with Viking slumber 8 Mattress
• Storage cabinets above bunk in Walnut in place of mirror
• Carpeted storage area under bunk
• Custom end table next to bed with drawer storage below and full height hanging closet above
• AC registers and returns walnut
• Nightstand to have USB and 120V outlets
• Quilted designer style bedspread and pillow shams
• Decorative indirect rope lighting from underneath bed platform and behind valances
• Lighting, overhead LED lights and courtesy rope lighting underneath lower bunk rail, LED and behind valances
• 32” TV with wood frame on aft wall
• Custom storage in step to engine room
• Access to engine room

Crew Head

• Amtico Flooring
• Cambria Vanity Top
• Air conditioning/heat with register in soffit
• Exhaust fan with vent in soffit
• Overhead LED lights recessed in soffit and in ceiling
• Lower vanity with curved walnut face
• Medicine cabinet with mirrored doors
• Mirror around upper vanity insert
• Receptacle, 120V – GFCI
• Stall shower in fiberglass with satin nickel shower fixtures and with drain to automatic sump pump in bilge
• Towel bar and ring in satin nickel

Flybridge

• Center console walk around helm with electronic storage raised pod with additional storage below
• Air conditioned flybridge
• Custom surface mounted electronics suite in Carbon fiber covered panel surrounded by custom teak trim ring. Electronics box cover deleted but available by request
• Compass
• Release teak helm pod with single lever controls and bow thruster controls in handles
• Install light in radio box to indicate spot zero operating on
• Split lids on radio boxes
• Push button catches on forward cabinet doors in lieu of standard
• Extended overhang for extra room to move around helm seats
• 3 forward facing helm seats, Teak ladderback by Blue water custom chairs with matching removable upholstery and backrests
• Top loading freezer forward with dividers to have dedicated compressor for isolation and redundancy
• Refrigerated fly bridge drink box
• Flybridge custom: Sink and lid deleted and replaced with storage cabinet
• Install custom rail at helm and powder coat for foot rest
• Bench seats with storage port and starboard sides with removable backrests for forward facing guests
• Elevated backrest on forward bench seat
• Whisper gray Stamoid enclosure vinyl
• Costa clear polycarbonate enclosures with zippered vents
• Costa helm cover
• Teak laid flybridge decks by Teak Cockpit Solutions of FL
• Overhead hard top painted grey to mitigate glare
• Overhead hard top has oversize panel for teasers
• Overhead hard top has panel with drop down aft facing sonar screen
• VHF speakers concealed behind vented cut out in hard top

Cockpit

• Cruisair "Cool Breeze" Mezzanine Air System
• Tuna Tubes in transom live well
• Teak Cockpit, Mezzanine, Ladder Treads by Teak Cockpit solutions of FL
• Teak Covering boards and coamings by Teak Cockpit solutions of FL
• Custom Costa cockpit cover with removable side panels
• Costa cockpit sunshade with poles
• Custom raised pattern Silver and white vinyl Mezzanine Cushions With 2 removable Drink Bolsters
• Additional seat cushion and back for tackle locker
• Two 12V DC Outlets Forward Under Coaming
• 12VDC 30 Amp Outlet Aft Under Coaming for Electric Reels
• Transom Coaming Gate
• Transom fish box plumbed as live well
• Transom door
• Transom swim steps 3 total instead of standard 2
• Transom grab handles installed inside of transom door
• Release Marine Boltless Rod Holders
• Tower legs extend to cockpit with 3 rod holders on each leg
• Bluewater custom Series Fighting Chair
• Dockside electric connection — (2) 50 amp/220V electric with Glendinning Cable masters in forward port and starboard cabinets under gunwales
• Dockside water connection with pressure reducing valve in cabinet under gunwale
• Faux teak painted salon door – molded fiberglass with frameless window and walnut interior
• Engine room access with door and ladder to engine room
• Extended flybridge overhang for shade
• Freshwater wash down with hose bib located in cabinet under starboard gunwale
• Second fresh water washdown installed in cabinet under port gunwale
• Gaskets for all lids and access doors
• Ladder to flybridge, one-piece, anodized aluminum with teak treads
• Lazarette hatch with access to steering system, trim tabs, drain pumps and Seakeeper
• LED lighting, indirect rope lighting underneath the coaming Tri Colored
• LED lighting oversized recessed deck lights in flybridge overhang (4 ea.) Tri colored
• Observation mezzanine with starboard aft facing lounge seating with custom covered cushions, hinged seats with storage under lounge area, tackle cabinet with pullout drawers and dual bait freezers
• Cockpit Freezers have dedicated compressors so that they can be isolated for redundancy in place of standard configuration where both are run on the same compressor
• Refrigerated drink box undermounted in salon step for direct access from cockpit
• Custom dividers fabricated for step cooler
• Seawater wash down, run off central raw water system
• Side lockers under coaming with gaff storage
• Split lids for fish boxes
• Stainless steel gas springs on all hatches and lids
• Valve to fill freshwater tank from dockside inlet
• Y-valve fresh and saltwater wash down

Hull Deck Exterior

• Seakeeper Gyro SK 26
• Hydraulic bow thruster
• White Hull
• Custom bow chute for anchor in stem w/ polished anchor strike plate
• Hydraulic windlass concealed below forward deck with access covers over anchor locker
• Windlass remote installed in anchor locker
• 8 custom powder coated hooks in anchor locker for hanging lines and fenders
• Fresh water washdown at bow anchor locker
• Custom anchor line and chain combination of 50’ of stainless-steel chain and 625ft of rope
• Polished stainless-steel claw anchor
• Faux painted teak toe rails
• Deleted bow pulpit and bow rail
• Blister resistant modified vinylester resin in entire hull skin
• Custom blended polyester resin used in structural laminates, topsides, bridges, and hardtops
• Fiberglass side thru-hulls
• Ablative/Copolymer anti-fouling bottom paint (2 coats), using “Interlux Interprotected epoxy primer system”
• Awlgrip bronze thru hulls and sea strainers in engine room and forward bilge
• Bomar Deck Hatch
• Hull is infused using Baltek end-grain balsa and
• Airex foam cores with carbon and E-glass hybrid fiberglass laminates
• Infused fiberglass fuel, freshwater and holding tanks with fiberglass baffles inside and balsa coring on sides for stiffness, sealed to hull with a syntatic foam
• Molded fiberglass salon floor/engine room ceiling with foam core for acoustical and thermal insulation
• Propeller pockets to reduce draft
• Stringers, fiberglass encapsulated foam
• Vacuum bagged composite bulkheads – main engine room bulkhead, and forward bulkhead
• Recessed external sea strainers for main engine pick ups
• Rudders, stainless, composite rudder bearing with dripless seal laminated into hull
• Seacocks, bronze, ball-type sea valves for all thru- hulls below the water line – Awlgrip Snow White
• Shafts — (2) Aquamet high-strength stainless steel, double-taper with machined keyway and custom thrust plate at main engine couplings
• Struts — thru-water, Nibral, composite bearings
• Tides Marine water lubricated dripless shaft seals with crossover water supply from both
• engines
• Trim tabs, custom with center, port and starboard tabs recessed in transom, individual controls for each tab with fiberglass covers
• Sea Star 3 – steering system with electronic interface

Engine Room

• MTU Series 2000 – V16 M96l 2635MHP with 1070 hours and 5 year 4000-hour warranty until 2025
• Additional octoplex display by engine room door
• Crew side of engine room door painted to match interior color of stateroom walls in lieu of standard color
• Water Maker with auto back flush 1400 GPD
• 2nd Water maker with auto back flush 1400 GPDSpot Zero water filtration system Double by-pass
• Both water makers plumed to run thru spot zero system for incredibly pure water
• Installed customer supplied pre-filter system for water makers
• Water maker display custom painted white to match engine room
• Back up fuel transfer pump in parallel for redundancy
• Upgraded Centralized sea water pump system to what is used in 80 Viking including larger Grundflo pumps and piping to keep up with all user components on boat
• Electro Sea clearline system plumed into CSW for prevention of barnacle growth in the CSW system and all components it feeds
• Optional Hydraulic system in engine room to power bow thruster and windlass
• Willy Vac with low water pickup and additional hose
• Headhunter Fresh water pump standard with optional back up Headhunter freshwater pump plumbed in Parallel
• Eskimo Ice machine plumbed to Starboard step box in Mezzanine
• Second Eskimo Ice machine plumed to port cockpit fish box
• 2 Scott pumps installed aft and center in engine room to supply customer supplied tuna tubes
• Two 6 drawer 12” wide painted toolboxes
• Prepped and prewired for dive compressor
• Black diamond mat installed on shelf forward of engines
• Awlgrip engine room, lazarette, forward bilge and anchor locker for enhanced visibility and easier maintenance
• Air conditioning — chilled water, 8 tons (two 4-ton units), zoned with reverse cycle heat for complete climate control throughout the interior and with individual temperature controls for staterooms and salon
• Bilge pumps with clean out pumps linked into monitoring system and connected to float switches for automatic and manual operation
• Customized air conditioning sea water supply/discharge manifolds to allow for isolating each chiller for maintenance
• “Delta T” engine room ventilation system with thermostatically controlled supply and discharge fans for proper fresh air circulation and water intrusion suppression
• “Delta T” pneumatically controlled engine room ventilation dampers, integrated into fire suppression system
• Dual stage speed 110V AC freshwater system with on deck freshwater fill and cockpit dockside supply inlet with pressure reducing valve
• Engine room entrance gauge package consisting of gauges for digital tachometer, engine water temperature, and engine oil pressure and remote mounted engine start and stop switches for easier viewing and accessibility
• Fire suppression system, automatically and manually operated and tied into main engines, generator ignitions and ventilation systems with override
• Freshwater supply in engine room for general maintenance and cleaning
• Fuel priming pumps for main engines, electric
• Fuel transfer and management system, 24V DC pump controlled through touch-screen control panels
• Hour meters on generators
• Integrated engine mounting system for efficient transfer of energy to drive train system
• Internal sea strainers for generator and all other seawater pick ups
• Mufflers – engines in-line type with surge tubes in engine room
• Mufflers — generators, gas/water separators
• Oil changing system, gear type pump for main engines, transmissions, and generator with pump out line run to cockpit locker
• Advance design cambered blade sections for optimum performance. Nibral alloy for maximum durability
• Racor dual fuel/water separator filters for main engines and single for generator. Clear bowl type, top loading for convenient replacing
• Electric water heater

Mechanical

• Install Tee in Dockside water manifold to fill water tank from the cockpit. Pass thru spot zero
• Deck fill for freshwater tank
• Custom Awlgrip tiller arms and brass parts in Lazarette in place of standard
• Supply and install screens on Centralized sea water intakes and tuna tube pump intakes
• Custom quick disconnect fitting in port side locker tied into standard fuel transfer pump/manifold to transfer fuel from a bladder tank in the cockpit
• Extra port for Willy Vac in lazarette
• Install two custom transom elliptical drains for transom fish box
• Install custom black rubber matting in forward bilge areas