1972 Tartan 41

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

Original mast with single-spreader: heavy section, nearly indestructible.  

All new standing rigging with Sta-lok mechanical terminals.  Lower shrouds are 7/16”, upper shrouds and backstay are 3/8”. The forestay is Dyform wire 10 mm. All new Hayn turnbuckles, toggles, and Clevis pins.  

Hydraulic backstay tensioner 

Mast sheaves for halyards replaced with Torlon sheaves.  

New Garhauer halyard blocks on the “crane”. 

Inner forestay with 2 deck attachment points with dedicated bulkheads; running backstays (dyneema with black UV chafe cover).  For hoisting stays’l and storm jib.  Dyneema lashing tensioning system operated by the windlass. 

New masthead LED tri-color and anchor light, steaming light, and deck light, and all new wiring. All running/anchor lights have dual switches: in cockpit and at nav station. 

New masthead VHF antenna and low-loss RG8 cable.  

Permanently rigged 2:1 boom preventer lines. 

New Andersen full stainless winches

3 reefs for mains’l, both tack and clew lines, run to cabintopclutches and winches 

Garhauer stainless clutches on cabintop (reef lines, outhaul, boom vang, spin tack line, spin pole downhaul) 

New Garhauer traveler on cabintop (cabintop under the traveler reinforced with two wood/fiberglass laminated beams) 

T-track for genoa lead cars re-bedded, new backing plates; Garhauer E-Z Glide adjustable genoa car system (essential for roller-furling genoa!)

Garhauer stainless clutches for mainsheet, traveler control lines, genoa furling line (all at helm position)

All new Garhauer blocks

Custom carbon-fiber bow-sprit (retractable) for code zero and asymmetrical spinnakers

Deck re-cored, new Kiwigrip non-skid

“Knee-saver” cockpit seat padding

J: 17.33’ 

P: 47.75’

E: 13.00’

Mains’l: (EP Sailmakers) Powerplast filmless taffeta, Kevlar/Carbon path fibers, 4 full battens

150% Genoa: (EP Sailmakers) Powerplast filmless taffeta, Kevlar/Carbon path fibers. On a Harken Mk III furling unit. Foam luff strips for shape retention when reefed. 

Laminated A1.5 (Code Zero) by EP Sailmakers with torsion cable on UbiMajor furling unit

Stays’l (heavy dacron, good condition) 

Storm jib: new (hoisted on inner forestay)

A2 Asymmetric spinnaker (Precision Sails), with ATN dousing sock

S2 symmetric spinnaker (EP Sailmakers) with ATN dousing sock

Many old delivery/practice sails

All cosmetic blisters chased out, dried, filled and faired in 2019.  

Proline epoxy barrier coat in 2023.  Proline hard vinyl bottom paint June 2025. 

All through-hulls replaced in 2019, flanged bronze sea-cocks, flush-mounted 

Crash bulkheads and watertight compartments under V-berth in forepeak (one of them is a chain locker with pipe run back from electric windlass). 

Cockpit drains: massive 3” diameter hoses led to glassed-in stand pipes.

Yanmar 3HM35F (35 hp, fresh-water cooled). ~2,500 hrs. 

2-bladed feathering prop (MaxProp). 

2 fuel tanks (60 gal total), with fuel transfer/polishing system. 

Full set of sailing instruments (B&G) – all on NMEA2000 network: 

• WS310 masthead wind transducer (wired)• DST800 speed, depth, temperature transducer, with a bronze through-hull and spare blank plugs. • 2 Triton-2 MFDs (multifunction displays) and • Vulcan 7 chartplotter, all in dedicated pods mounted on the steering wheel pedestal

iPad at nav station wi-fi connected (remote control) to Vulcan 7 

Battery and solar controllers all Bluetooth enabled (monitored on the iPad) 

Two Pelagic autopilots (for main rudder and aux rudder) with interchangeable control heads

Furuno radar 

Edson steering wheel, chain-and-cable steering mechanism

Autopilot: Pelagic heavy below-deck (hydraulic ram), with dedicated Edson tiller arm (completely separate from the wheel steering mechanism)

Emergency/auxiliary rudder: carbon fiber, cassette-style, permanently mounted on transom, with dedicated tiller autopilot (Pelagic).  

Main rudder and auxiliary rudder autopilots have swappable control heads (mounted in custom pods) for safety/redundancy

Emergency ‘T-bar’ tiller for the main rudder

2 manual Whale Titan (one below-deck, one in cockpit)

2 automatic

High water alarm

560 Ah 12 V LiFePO4 battery (2 parallel batteries with 2 independent BMS, Bluetooth monitoring enabled) 

Victron smart shunt and monitor (Bluetooth monitoring enabled)

550 W of solar panels (on stern pulpit and on cabintop under boom), with 2 Victron MPPT charge controllers 

All new LED cabin lights (red/white)

1500 W inverter and 110 V AC system (4 GFCI outlets at nav station)

All new wiring (both 12 V and 110 V systems)

3 glassed-in water tanks (90 gal total): one under starboard settee in main salon; two aft between quarter-berths and under lazarette.  Valve manifold for switching between tanks (under galley sink). Aft water tank baffles serve as reinforcement ribs for the rudder shaft standpipe. 

All new plumbing (both fresh water and salt water systems, galley and head)

Water heater (engine or AC)

3 galley sink faucets: electric fresh water pump; foot pump for fresh water; electric salt water pump 

3-burner propane stove, oven

Propane tank with remote solenoid valve mounted on stern toe-rail.

Wilcox Crittenden Skipper II (the best marine head ever made; 2nd unit included for spares).  

New plumbing

New holding tank (both deck plate and overboard pump-out). 

Shower with sump box/pump

Custom reclining seat at nav station. 

Anchor windlass with new foot switches and new wiring. 

2 Fortress anchors; 250 feet of chain

8-person AVON life raft (needs re-packing)

Watermaker (included, currently not installed, needs new membrane)

Dodger frame included (not installed, needs canvas)