Tartan

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.

John Richards and Jim Briggs took over the reins from Charlie and the mid eighties saw the development of several new Tartans.  This time designs by Tim Jackett and the in-house Tartan design team.  The first complete in house designs were the Tartan 31 and Tartan 372; both were Cruising World Boat of the Year winners in the early years of those contests.

In the late nineties, Tartan acquired the C&C brand and began the development of several new models under the C&C banner. Although the company experienced a good deal of success with the C&C brand, having launched nearly 400 Tartan built C&C’s over a 10 year production run, the C&C brand was eventually licensed to another builder allowing Tartan to focus on its core product, luxury performance cruisers.

Source: TartanYachts.