{"id":49819,"date":"2017-10-04T18:32:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/?p=49819"},"modified":"2023-05-08T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:23:46","slug":"on-the-market-the-viking-61-convertible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/on-market-viking-61-convertible\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Market: The Viking 61 Convertible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/viking-61c-1024x681.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Viking 61 Convertible\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/viking-61c-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/viking-61c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/viking-61c-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/viking-61c.jpg 2000w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">New Jersey-based Viking Yachts launched the 61 Convertible in 2000 with open- and enclosed-bridge versions.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Charlie Clark<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<p>Fifteen years ago, I fished aboard a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vikingyachts.com\/pagesNew\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viking<\/a> 61 Convertible off Costa Rica. Several 61Cs were in the marina, and I soon found out why. For two days, we backed down on, chased and caught countless sailfish, plus a blue marlin. We didn&#8217;t miss a fish. The boat had an uncanny ability to put the squeeze on pelagics in a flash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notable features:<\/strong> She has a razorlike sheer line. Standard power was 1,360 hp diesels. Power options included diesels up to 2,000 hp apiece. Reported top speed ranges from 37\u00a0to 42 knots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Belowdecks:<\/strong> Three staterooms, three heads were standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2009Availability:<\/strong> We found 27 Viking 61Cs on the market, ranging from $659,000 for a well-equipped 2001 to $1.37 million for a 2005 that&#8217;s ready to fish.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Viking 61 Convertible is a popular choice for anglers looking to bring in the big ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Patrick Sciacca","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"20171004","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"155","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"The Viking 61 Convertible is a popular choice for anglers looking to bring in the big ones.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"On the Market: The Viking 61 Convertible %%sep%% %%sitename%%","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"NVLKRJU5EVC5FBIVRU25CNNAVE","arc_website_url":"on-market-viking-61-convertible","custom_permalink":"on-market-viking-61-convertible\/","arc_subtype":"right-sidebar","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":0,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[388,190,182,324],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}