- Founded
- 1964
- Headquarters
- Route 9 "On the Bass River", PO Box 308, New Gretna, NJ 08224, United States
- Shipyard location
- New Gretna and Mullica, New Jersey, United States
- Official website
- https://www.vikingyachts.com/
Brand Overview
New Jersey family builder of semi-custom sportfishing yachts since 1964 — 29 models from the 13.9-metre 46 Billfish to the 27.4-metre 90, in seven styles from open-bridge Convertible to Enclosed Bridge, Sky Bridge, Open Express, Sport Coupe, Sport Tower and Billfish, almost all built in-house at New Gretna and Mullica.
YachtCodex Analysis
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What this builder is
Brothers Bill and Bob Healey founded the Viking Yacht Company in 1964 by buying Peterson-Viking Builders, a small, struggling New Jersey maker of 37-foot wooden sportfishing boats; the yard says the family has run it for more than six decades under Bill Healey's mantra to 'build a better boat every day', that it has delivered over 5,500 boats and that it is a world leader in semi-custom fiberglass yacht production. Pat Healey, Bill's son, is president and CEO, and a third generation now works in the business. Its plants at New Gretna and Mullica, New Jersey, can build more than 30 models up to 90 feet, and apart from engines, transmissions, air conditioning and electronics virtually everything is made in-house, including tooling cut on five-axis CNC machines; subsidiaries Palm Beach Towers and Atlantic Marine Electronics fit towers and electronics so boats are delivered turnkey, and service centres in New Gretna and Florida look after them. The range is sportfishing yachts in seven styles: Convertible (50 to 90 feet), Enclosed Bridge (64 to 90), Sky Bridge (70 to 90), Open Express (50, 54), Sport Coupe and Sport Tower (50, 54, 64) and Billfish (46, 50). Each model page prints length overall, beam, draft, displacement at standard fuel load, fuel and water capacities and a power list in metric horsepower.
Who sails them
Viking owners are serious offshore anglers and tournament crews — from owner-operators running a Billfish, Open or Sport Coupe to captained teams on 70- to 90-foot convertibles — who want a tournament-proven hull, a boat delivered ready to fish with its tower and electronics fitted, and a builder that services what it sells.
Signature models
The open-bridge Convertible is the heart of the range, from the 50 to the 90 — the flagship, successor to the 92, with six staterooms and seven heads; Viking says it pioneered the enclosed-bridge convertible with the 58 Valhalla in 1996, and the second-generation 70, introduced at the Palm Beach show, is its newest convertible.
Strengths
Viking is known for building almost everything in-house, from tooling to joinery, resin-infused hulls with running surfaces refined by computational fluid dynamics, turnkey delivery through its own tower and electronics companies, a demonstration programme on the tournament circuit since 1984, three generations of family ownership and service centres in New Jersey and Florida.
Considerations
Model pages print imperial figures with metric in brackets and no speeds, range, CE category or designer; displacement is at standard fuel load; power options are given per engine in metric horsepower, and the 64 Enclosed Bridge, the 70 series and the 74 Enclosed and Sky Bridge pages say power is 'coming soon'; cabins and heads come only from the descriptive text; the 64 Sport Coupe and Sport Tower print their draft as 'TBD', the 82 Enclosed and Sky Bridge print no draft or displacement, and the 64 Enclosed Bridge prints its length without a metric figure.
Analysis generated 10/18/2026
Part of
Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 29
- Length range
- 13.87–27.41 m
- Hull forms
- Motor Monohull 29
- Cabins
- 2–6
Models by this brand
29 models
Convertible9
50 Convertible
LOA: 15.75 m
54 Convertible
LOA: 16.61 m
58 Convertible
LOA: 17.96 m
64 Convertible
LOA: 19.46 m
68 Convertible
LOA: 20.9 m
70 Convertible
LOA: 21.59 m
74 Convertible
LOA: 22.76 m
82 Convertible
LOA: 25.27 m
90 Convertible
LOA: 27.41 m
Sport Coupe3
Sport Tower3
Enclosed Bridge6
History
Viking says one family has run it for more than six decades. Bill Healey and his brother Bob founded the company in 1964 after buying Peterson-Viking Builders, a small, struggling New Jersey maker of 37-foot wooden sportfishing boats, and under Bill's mantra to build a better boat every day it has delivered more than 5,500 boats. In the early 1970s came its first fiberglass model, a 33-footer, then the 35 and the 40/41 series, of which more than 600 were sold; Bill's son Patrick, now president and CEO, joined in that decade. The 1980s brought the 45, 47 and 48, and in 1984 Pat Healey started the demonstration programme the yard still relies on. The 1990 recession and a 10 percent federal luxury tax in 1991 cut the workforce from 1,500 to fewer than 80; the Healeys put in their own money, helped lead the campaign that repealed the tax in 1993, and went on to launch the Viking 55, which the yard says set the standard for modern convertibles. The 2000s brought a $10 million plant expansion, the Palm Beach Towers and Atlantic Marine Electronics subsidiaries, a five-axis CNC tooling machine, a service centre in Palm Beach County and larger boats such as the 60, 65, 74 and 82. In the 2010s Viking built the 92 Enclosed Bridge, which it calls the world's largest resin-infused production sportfishing yacht, bought the former Ocean Yachts plant for the Billfish series and Valhalla Boatworks center consoles, and a third generation joined. In 2023 it showed the Viking 90 and Valhalla 55 at Miami, followed by second-generation 82 and 74 convertibles.
History written fromvikingyachts.com/History.asp· Viking Yachts Historyread 10/18/2026