Her raised salon, center cockpit deck design offers excellent on deck visibility and security and provides the structure for her extensive interior arrangement plans. Tartan 5300 is fit with a carbon fiber Cruise Control Rig (CCR) featuring a small overlapping working upwind headsail, off wind furling reacher and a carbon fiber pocket boom for the main. This design provides the optimum in performance and ease of handling. Utilizing Tartan's industry leading lamination techniques the 5300 hull and deck composites are the strongest, lightest and safest in the industry. Weight conserved using advanced composites is used to increase all of the performance indicating ratios and allow a higher ballast to displacement ratio providing greater sail carrying ability and stability. The interior of the 5300 is available in a range of layouts, all carefully fit out by Tartan craftsman in varnished cherry joinerwork and luxurious fabrics. Longer passages made easier by Tartan's cruising innovations, the newest flagship of the line sets the new standard for the class. READ MORE
In the end, after all, it's a boat with the capacity and potential to voyage to any corner of the watery world. Tartan clearly wanted to make a statement with the 5300, and in doing so, the company has delivered not only a flagship for the brand but also arguably one of the better American-built cruising boats that I've seen in the new millennium.
