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Sailboat Review: Tartan 455

• By Herb McCormick
• March 12, 2024

For me, for many reasons, certain boats and brands are synonymous with the waters or regions where they were created. The places are an essential component of the boats’ DNA. I’ll always associate a varnished mahogany runabout with upstate New York, or a cool little vintage catboat with Buzzards Bay and southern New England. Every classic Hinckley or Morris that I come across paints a vivid portrait of coastal Maine. Even yachts that sail or cruise far and wide all over the world still convey a sense of place. Recently, aboard a new Tartan 455, we pointed the bow into choppy Lake Erie, and I intuited an instant connection to the nearby northeast Ohio plant where the boat was spawned. It all felt like home. 

Other people see different things. After I uploaded a photo to social media of myself steering the 455, an old pal quickly hit me back with a comment, asking: “Tartan is still building boats?” 

The answer is an emphatic yes, and pretty darn good ones at that. The company has certainly had its ups and downs over the years, but it’s now navigating smoother waters for a couple of major reasons. First, it was recently acquired by Seattle Yachts, which made significant investments in the product and facilities, and appears firmly committed for the long haul. Second, longtime Tartan designer Tim Jackett is running operations, and the native Ohio homeboy is giving it his all. 

Jackett says that the 455 evolved from powerboats by Legacy, a company Tartan acquired in 2010. “The roots of it came after having some exposure to the Legacy brand and looking at how the deck and interior of that sedan style of powerboat works out so nicely,” he says. His first swing at the design in sailboat mode was a 37-foot motorsailer with a substantial trim tab that powered up at 14 knots. (It was never built.) When the owner of a Tartan 3700 approached him about commissioning a larger boat, Jackett returned to expand upon his earlier incarnation.

“But the concept was the same,” he says. “More of a sailing hull, but a nice, big, well-lit living space with inside steering, and then an aft cockpit that gave you the normal sailing experience of wind and water in your face when you wanted it.”

Jackett says that the 455 evolved from powerboats by legacy, a company tartan acquired in 2010. His first swing at the design was a 37-foot motorsailer.

Down a few steps into the deep ­cockpit, sliding doors open into the salon, which transitions into the forward living areas. The bulletproof laminate is a vacuum-bagged, infused sandwich that employs epoxy resin with a foam core in the hull construction and end-grain balsa in the deck. The lead keel supports a hefty ballast bulb and is available in deep- and shallow-draft configurations.

There are a couple of accommodations plans, including a two-stateroom version or the three-stateroom layout employed in the model we sailed, with guest staterooms to port and starboard, and an owner’s space forward with an attached head. The well-executed joiner work and furniture were cherry, though teak and maple are available (much of it sourced from northeast Ohio’s Amish mills). I’d say that this is primarily a comfortable couple’s boat with space for occasional visits from family and friends. 

Aesthetically, I found the lines plan of the 455 to be handsome and pleasing­—not a particularly easy task with a large ­deckhouse, which Jackett incorporated nicely into the profile.

This is ​​­primarily a comfortable ­couple’s boat with space for occasional visits from family and friends­—A big boat but an easy one to negotiate.

Wraparound windows allow light to pour in from all directions, as does the deckhouse’s overhead window. A split hydraulic backstay provides easy access to the drop-down transom and boarding platform between the twin wheels, which are stationed well outboard. (There’s a single, deep spade rudder.) Moving forward, an outboard ramp rises from the cockpit to the side decks, which makes for easy egress to the topside and foredeck. I believe that this feature originated with the Jeanneau line, and I always thought it was a trend that would spill over to other builders (see the Moody 41DS). It’s just too simple and elegant a solution to an age-old design conundrum. There are grippy stainless-steel handrails just about everywhere. This Tartan is a big boat but an easy one to negotiate.

The carbon-fiber double-spreader rig is fashioned in Tartan’s in-house autoclave, as are the rudder post and other reinforcements. The company’s Cruise Control Rig double-headsail sail plan (also known as a Solent setup) has become a fixture across the brand, with a code-zero-style reacher on the forward stay and a smaller, self-tacking jib on the aft one. The powerful, full-battened mainsail is stashed in a Leisure Furl in-boom furler, and there’s a wide traveler atop the deckhouse that facilitates the end-boom mainsail sheeting. All the running rigging is led into the cockpit and handled by a combination of rope clutches and Harken electric winches. The excellent sails come from Sobstad’s loft in nearby Rocky Hill. 

Over the years, I’ve sailed many a Jackett design, and the common denominator is they sail exceedingly well. We sailed the 455 on an early-fall afternoon after a cold front rolled through, offering up ideal 10- to 15-knot northwest breezes. The waves in the relatively shallow lake were closely spaced. As I took the wheel and came onto the wind under the smaller jib, it took me a while to stop pinching and get in the groove. But once I fell off a good 10 degrees, the boat and I settled in, and it muscled through the chop with aplomb. 

The steering was tight and accurate. Jackett says that he was still playing with the optimal rudder configuration, but it all felt fine to me. Topside, the Jefa wheels are cable-controlled, while the deckhouse steering station is on a hydraulic ram. You toggle between the two, depending on where you’re driving. We swapped out the self-tacker for the large reacher and bore off another 10 degrees, and the boat absolutely lit up, trucking along on a beam reach at bursts over 9 knots in complete and utter control. We even jibed the big sail through the exceedingly tight ­foretriangle, a maneuver I wouldn’t have thought possible. It was quite the sail. 

Fittingly, the first Tartan 455 is going to live on the Great Lakes, with Lake Huron’s North Channel a likely regular cruising ground. But I can envision this being a terrific yacht for the Pacific Northwest and beyond, and ideal for high-latitude adventures. You might not be able to take the Ohio out of a Tartan, but you can take this Tartan just about anywhere.

Where It All Began: Tartan 27

On the back lot of Tartan’s headquarters in Painesville, Ohio, the exact boat that started it all—Hull No. 1 of the sweet little Tartan 27 line, of which more than 700 were eventually built in a production run that lasted until 1979—is awaiting a complete refit. It was fun and ­enlightening, after sailing and reviewing Tartan’s latest offering, to consider how ­production-boat building and design has evolved during the past 60-plus years. The changes have been extensive.

The Tartan 27 was a collaborative effort between Douglass & McLeod Inc., an Ohio-based builder of one-design wooden dinghies such as the Thistle and the Flying Scot, and Charlie Britton, a sailor and businessman who was also reared on the shores of Lake Erie. Following his service in the US Navy, Britton sailed his 42-foot yawl from Japan to the West Indies, a rather unheard-of voyage in the late 1950s. Once home, he joined forces with D&M to commission a 27-footer for coastal cruising and club racing. Being Scotsmen, they decided to name it Tartan.

There were a lot of firsts ­involved here: The T27 was D&M’s first fiberglass boat, and it was one of the initial glass designs from the venerable East Coast firm of Sparkman & Stephens. The chief designer for the project was a young naval architect named Bill Shaw, who would go on to become the principal design chief at Pearson Yachts, where he designed dozens of models. 

Hull No. 1 launched in 1961. With its boxy coachroof and low-aspect masthead rig, it’s hard to believe today that the T27 was considered a performance racer/cruiser at the time, but as such, it was an immediate success. It was designed to compete under the popular Cruising Club of America rating rule of the early 1960s. Like other yachts of that period, including the Pearson Triton and Hinckley Bermuda 40, it featured long overhangs and a short waterline, a narrow beam (8 feet, 9 inches), moderate displacement, a long keel, shallow draft, an aperture-mounted propeller for the Atomic 4 gas engine, a keel-hung rudder, and slack bilges. Most of the early T27s were sloops, though it was also offered as a yawl, which did well under the CCA rule. 

At 7,400 pounds ­displacement, it was not a light boat, but when slightly cracked off, it tracked to weather like a demon. Unlike the Triton, which had a fixed keel, the T27 was a keel-centerboard boat that drew 6 feet, 4 inches when the board was lowered, and a mere 3 feet, 2 inches when raised, making it highly versatile as a pocket cruiser. The original centerboards were bronze, which must have raised some mighty maintenance issues, and is likely why it was soon switched over to steel encased in fiberglass. The ¾-inch fiberglass hull was a proverbial brick house; the deck was balsa-cored. At the time, the construction was state of the art.

D&M followed up the T27 with a couple more venerable “classic plastic” legends, including the Ted Hood-designed Black Watch 37 (which eventually was remodeled and relaunched as the Tartan 37) and another S&S benchmark, the Tartan 34, an expanded version of the T27 that also had a centerboard. Man, for many years, I was bewitched by the 34-footer, and you can still find all of these models in harbors everywhere. 

After a fire in 1971, D&M sold Britton the Tartan division, starting a whole new chapter in the company’s storied history.

As I steered the latest Tartan—a systems-rich yacht finished to an incredibly high degree—I could only wish that Britton were still around to experience the power and speed of a contemporary, long-range cruising yacht. I have no doubt that he’d be amazed, but that sweet little Tartan 27 of his was the inspiration for all that followed.

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Tartan 455 Sailboat

Tartan 455 Sailboat Details

If there's one thing the team at Tartan Yachts always does, it's listen to their customer's feedback and do an excellent job at implementing changes to enhance the boating experience. With the new Tartan 455 Deckhouse Sloop, thousands of miles of sailing experience and suggestions went in to the design and execution. "At Tartan Yachts, we have been conceptualizing several different sizes of deckhouse sloops. The defining features are a large, twin-wheel working cockpit area, a crew/guest cockpit with easy access into a light and airy deck house, and a full inside steering station within the deckhouse," said Tartan designer Tim Jackett.

Whether under sail or power, the new Tartan 455 will offer you incredible, reliable performance. For wind and water in the face sailing, choose the aft cockpit, twin-wheel helm position with convenient sail controls led to large coaming mounted winches. The twin wheel arrangement also provides great centerline access to the large, hinge-down swim platform. The forward cockpit area is deep and well protected for crew and guests and offers an easy 6-inch step down into the deck house.

Inside the deckhouse the 360-degree expanse of windows provides exceptional light and visibility. Overhead light and ventilation is provided by two sliding deck hatches over the helm to starboard and navigation area to port. Aft to port is a large U-shaped settee with a drop-leaf table, and to starboard is a well-appointed galley with a drawer-style refrigeration unit and countertop drop- in freezer. At the forward end of the deckhouse, a full inside steering station complete with a Llebroc ultraleather captain’s chair, wheel, navigation instruments, and engine controls results in extremely comfortable inside piloting when the weather is too hot, too cold or just plain too nasty to want to hunker down in the aft cockpit. To port a Llebroc ultraleather, extra wide captain’s chair with a work station/navigation station provides additional comfortable underway seating.

The cabin interior living spaces are a short three steps down from the deckhouse. Available as a two- or three-cabin layout, both with two heads. The owner’s cabin is forward with a large island queen-sized berth and private head with full stall shower and plenty of storage in Tartan’s hallmark solid stock cabinetry. All cabins are well ventilated by a large array of opening portlights and deck hatches. Additional light is provided by fixed hull portlights. The Tartan 455 sports a large, carbon-fiber, double-spreader mast by sister company, AMP Spars, with a self-tacking jib as the standard configuration. By adding a furling masthead light-air reacher, which creates Tartan’s exclusive CCR sail plan, the 455 puts great sailing performance, at your fingertips. With sail controls led aft to both cockpit helm positions, the sail tweaker in all of us will be satisfied. The 455’s steering pedestals are a work of art. Crafted in carbon-fiber they are strong, elegant and light weight.

Coupled to an efficient rudder with a carbon-fiber rudderpost, steering is light yet positive. A number of keel configurations will meet each owner’s requirements for their sailing locale.

The deckhouse roof not only serves as the anchor point for the mainsheet keeping the sheet safely out of the cockpits, a large recessed panel in the deckhouse exterior surface can be fitted with either Lexan panels for a dramatic skylight or, for those looking for an aesthetically pleasing solar installation, the recesses are sized for flush-mounted solar panels. Wide side decks and plenty of handholds along the top of the deckhouse, the lifelines, deck rails and extended bow and stern rails make movement on deck safe and secure. The 455 can be fitted with Tartan’s classic teak toe rails or for those who prefer less maintenance, anodized aluminum toe rails are available.

Innovation is one of the keys to Tartan Yachts’ long-term success. Moving forward with our first deckhouse design Tartan will lead the way to more comfortable yet exhilarating performance cruising. The first of her kind, the Tartan 455 Deckhouse Sloop will provide her owners’ unparalleled comfort, top-level pace, and breathtaking views while cruising, whether under sail or power.

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2023 Tartan 455

At Tartan our product development goals start with listening: to owners, to our dealers, and to our own hearts and minds. The Tartan 455 deckhouse sloop is a design for the future of sailing created from the thoughts and ideas of present day owners who’ve sailed hundreds of thousands of miles. 

At Tartan Yachts we have a passion to deliver the best sailboat owner experience possible. Our commitment to design and engineering is based on total performance. We don’t believe that a simple superficial appeal to aesthetics is enough to serve the interests of our owners. Our designers, builders and sales team understand and appreciate that every yacht we build must be the best yacht we build. Most importantly we are committed to the next 50 years with the focus of simply making our customer experience the best the industry has to offer.

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Tartan Has a New Deckhouse Sloop, the 455

Tartan Yachts and designer Tim Jackett spent a long time speaking with Tartan owners and have come out with the Tartan 455, a deckhouse sloop with a large twin-wheel working cockpit area, a guest cockpit with easy access to the deckhouse and a full, inside steering station. The 455 is designed for performance cruising, in comfort and style. The deep, well protected cockpit is designed for easily handled sail controls and steps into the deckhouse which is designed for light and full visibility. The boat is available in a two or three cabin layout, all well-ventilated by opening ports and deck hatches. Read More

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An American-built pilothouse cruiser keeps you out of the rain

I can’t recall seeing a Tim Jackett design I did not admire. Tim’s eye captures class proportions and shapes while insuring that performance does not take a back set to aesthetics. It’s simple. It’s what we all want­—a great looking boat that is fast and well behaved. 

Tim put his eye to work on this new 44-footer that offers a lot to the cruising family. You could call it a raised saloon configuration, but given that it offers a pilot station with inside steering I’d be inclined to call it a pilothouse configuration. “A rose by any other name.” All that matters is that it works without screaming “compromise!” Think of it as a delicate balancing act.

There is a long, shallow skeg starting about station 6.5 and going aft that I suspect is to give the boat good directional stability. The rudder is a large spade. Draft with the standard beavertail fin and bulb is 6 feet 6 inches but I see two other keel planforms on the drawing leading me to think that there are some shoal draft options. 

The D/L using Tartan’s lightship displacement is 194. The L/B is 3.23. The prismatic coefficient is .53. If you want to go “full geek” the moment to trim one inch is 3,356 foot pounds and the pounds per inch immersion is 1,648. Now you have some homework. 

The stern is beamy but not anywhere near what we see on most current production boats today. This will be a shapely and pretty hull.

There is a two-stateroom layout and a three-stateroom layout available. If you go with the three stateroom layout you get stacked single berths to starboard forward of the main cabin. There are two heads with the forward “owner’s head” having a large shower stall. The guest head is tighter but it’s very adequate. Now lose the third sleeping cabin and that space is used for a large guest head with shower stall. I think it’s actually bigger than the owner’s head.

Moving the guest head to starboard opens up the port-side guest sleeping cabin with enough extra volume for a wider double berth and a large hanging locker. The owner’s cabin features a centerline double berth, a seat at the foot of the bed and a plethora of lockers. The main cabin has the pilot station forward to port with a seat to starboard in case the driver gets lonely. Aft of that there is a large dinette to port and galley to starboard. This is a perfect layout for the Pacific Northwest when the winter weather is still warm enough to keep cruising but rather wet due to our persistent rain. Nothing like sitting in a raised main cabin looking out the windows while the rain beats down and the dog looks at you begging to be taken ashore.

One complaint I hear often is, “I won’t be able to see around that pilothouse.” Well, yes you will, depending on where you choose to sit. If you sit on what I think are sunken forward cockpit seats no, you won’t see forward unless you look though the house. That becomes a reflex on a boat like this. The house is not a brick wall. The pilothouse is 85% glass. You can look through it. Or, move aft to what looks like a raised seating position aft of port and starboard wheels. Now you can look over, around and through the pilothouse. You get used to it quickly. 

I think I see a step in the deck adjacent to the aft end of the pilothouse. This also helps with visibility from the wheel position aft. No, you don’t have the broad side decks of the Solaris, but the side deck width you lose is volume added to the inside of the pilothouse. Call it a “compromise” if you like but it makes sense. The designer has to do all this by feel. There are no formulae for balancing interior volumes. 

The bow overhang allows for a normal anchor roller fitting that also works to tack the off-the-wind asymmetrical sails. There is a flop-down section of transom that makes for a generous swim platform.

The rig is about as normal as can be. The mast is carbon with in-line spreaders. The promo material mentions an “exclusive CCR sailplan.” I don’t think that means a Creedence Clearwater Revival rig, but there is no explanation. There is a self-tacking jib. Self-tacking jibs are popular these days but I’m old, and I prefer jib tracks on the side decks that give me more jib sheet lead options. I lost all feeling in my toes many years ago.

This is a good design. It ticks off a lot of boxes that make for a comfortable and efficient cruising boat. It’s a handsome boat. You’ll enjoy looking back at it as you row the dogs ashore in the rain.

LOA 45’6”; LWL 39’6”; Beam 14’1”; Draft 6’6”; Displ. 25,750 lb.; Ballast 9,750 lb.; Sail area 977 sq. ft.; Fuel 140 gal.; Water 200 gal.; Auxiliary 75-hp.; SA/D 18.01; D/L 194; 

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Tartan 455 | Designer’s Notes

T455 designer's notes.

At Tartan Yachts, we have been conceptualizing several different sizes of deckhouse sloops. The defining features are a large, twin-wheel working cockpit area, a crew/guest cockpit with easy access into a light and airy deck house, and a full inside steering station within the deckhouse. Working with a Cleveland area Tartan 3700 owner, we are excited to announce the launch of the Tartan 455 Deckhouse Sloop.

The 455 offers innovative performance cruising under sail or power. For wind and water in the face sailing, choose the aft cockpit, twin-wheel helm position with convenient sail controls led to large coaming mounted winches. The twin wheel arrangement also provides great centerline access to the large, hinge-down swim platform. The forward cockpit area is deep and well protected for crew and guests and offers an easy 6-inch step down into the deck house. Inside the deckhouse the 360-degree expanse of windows provides exceptional light and visibility. Overhead light and ventilation is provided by two sliding deck hatches over the helm to starboard and navigation area to port. Aft to port is a large U-shaped settee with a drop-leaf table, and to starboard is a well-appointed galley with a drawer-style refrigeration unit and countertop drop- in freezer. At the forward end of the deckhouse, a full inside steering station complete with a Llebroc ultraleather captain’s chair, wheel, navigation instruments, and engine controls results in extremely comfortable inside piloting when the weather is too hot, too cold or just plain too nasty to want to hunker down in the aft cockpit. To port a Llebroc ultraleather, extra wide captain’s chair with a work station/navigation station provides additional comfortable underway seating.

The cabin interior living spaces are a short three steps down from the deckhouse. Available as a two- or three-cabin layout, both with two heads. The owner’s cabin is forward with a large island queen-sized berth and private head with full stall shower and plenty of storage in Tartan’s hallmark solid stock cabinetry. All cabins are well ventilated by a large array of opening portlights and deck hatches. Additional light is provided by fixed hull portlights. The Tartan 455 sports a large, carbon-fiber, double-spreader mast by sister company, AMP Spars, with a self-tacking jib as the standard configuration. By adding a furling masthead light-air reacher, which creates Tartan’s exclusive CCR sail plan, the 455 puts great sailing performance, at your fingertips. With sail controls led aft to both cockpit helm positions, the sail tweaker in all of us will be satisfied. The 455’s steering pedestals are a work of art. Crafted in carbon-fiber they are strong, elegant and light weight.

Coupled to an efficient rudder with a carbon-fiber rudderpost, steering is light yet positive. A number of keel configurations will meet each owner’s requirements for their sailing locale.

The deckhouse roof not only serves as the anchor point for the mainsheet keeping the sheet safely out of the cockpits, a large recessed panel in the deckhouse exterior surface can be fitted with either Lexan panels for a dramatic skylight or, for those looking for an aesthetically pleasing solar installation, the recesses are sized for flush-mounted solar panels. Wide side decks and plenty of handholds along the top of the deckhouse, the lifelines, deck rails and extended bow and stern rails make movement on deck safe and secure. The 455 can be fitted with Tartan’s classic teak toe rails or for those who prefer less maintenance, anodized aluminum toe rails are available.

Innovation is one of the keys to Tartan Yachts’ long-term success. Moving forward with our first deckhouse design Tartan will lead the way to more comfortable yet exhilarating performance cruising. The first of her kind, the Tartan 455 Deckhouse Sloop will provide her owners’ unparalleled comfort, top-level pace, and breathtaking views while cruising, whether under sail or power.

–Tim Jackett, Designer, August 20, 2019