The team at Northstar Yacht Sales has just listed the Viking 45 Open Shangri-La-De-Dah for sale. The owner’s asking price is $499,000—and that price includes the boat’s slip in Newport, Rhode Island, for the remainder of the 2024 cruising season.
Shangri-La-De-Dah is a 2005 build that is showing about 1,220 hours on its 900-horsepower MAN V-8 diesel engines. Service was recently completed by Bayside Diesel in Mystic, Connecticut, according to the brokerage house.
Recent upgrades to Shangri-La-De-Dah include Awlgrip paint from the waterline up (the topsides are light blue with a pure white house top) and a new suite of Simrad electronics, all completed in 2021. The electronics package includes five multifunction displays, redundant VHF radios, autopilot and high-chirp transducers.
As the team at Northstar Yacht Sales points out, this is a yacht that’s equipped to enter big-game fishing tournaments. The marlin tower with a full upper station is by Palm Beach Towers. Shangri-La-De-Dah also has six gunwale rod holders, six vertical rocket launchers across the back of the hardtop and four tower side movable rocket launchers. The triple 33-foot spreader outriggers are by Rupp.
The cockpit spans 119 square feet, which should give anglers plenty of room to move around when the bite is on. There are two bait freezer boxes, an insulated in-deck fish box with pumpout, and a Pompanette International Series rocket launcher table. A molded-in tackle center has a bait-prep station and drawers, and there’s a Dometic Eskimo ice maker for keeping the catch cold.
Raw and freshwater washdown systems should help with cleanup after the day’s fishing is done and the boat is back at the dock.
More rod stowage is inside, beneath the U-shaped lounge settee. Overall, Shangri-La-De-Dah is laid out for a cruising couple or to accommodate a fishing crew overnight.
There is one proper stateroom with a queen berth, along with a few other spots where people can stretch out to sleep. The layout also includes a galley and a dinette that can seat five people. The head has a stall shower.
Interior headroom tops out at 6 feet, 6 inches if there are bigger guys in the fishing crew.
Need to cruise under bridges to get out to open water? Shangri-La-De-Dah has a bridge clearance of 33 feet, 2 inches, according to the brokerage house. Beam on this yacht is 16 feet, 4 inches, and maximum draft is 4 feet, 6 inches.
Take the next step: contact a sales broker at northstaryachtsales.com
