Tartan Yachts

Throughout the decades long history of Tartan sailboats the resourceful designers, engineers and boat builders of Tartan yachts have continuously established new standards of performance, quality and craftsmanship. We have done so by staying true to our creed of providing Tartan sailboat owners with a yacht that delivers both luxurious accommodations and safe, well-mannered sailing performance in all conditions. 

Tartan emerged on the auxiliary sailing yacht scene in 1960, with Charlie Britton at the helm. As a result of a collaboration with the renowned design firm of Sparkman and Stephens, and builder Douglass and McLeod of Grand River, Ohio, Charlie developed the company’s first model, the Tartan 27. The Tartan 27 constituted a departure from the existing norms of wooden construction to begin a new generation of quality crafted fiberglass hulls. Establishing them at the forefront of the boat building world, Tartan charged forward with new designs, such as

the 34 and the Blackwatch 37. To meet expanding production demands the company opened a second manufacturing plant

in Hamlet, North Carolina.