Class BDisplacementCruiser/Racer

Tartan 410

Tartan · Tim Jackett · 1997

Updated

The Tartan 410 is a 12.56 m displacement racing yacht designed by Tim Jackett and built by Tartan, first launched in 1997. It races in Class B.

Tartan 410 - Tim Jackett - TartanP 15.48 mLOA 12.56 m

Length

12.56 m

41′ 2″

Beam

4.11 m

Draft

1.98 m

Displacement

9.3 t

Sail area

103 m²

This design does not carry a Race Edge. The speeds below still come from measured boats.

On the podium

Where a Tartan 410 finishes when she goes racing.

Not enough data yet to show how this design finishes. It has not been found in the race results we have collected so far.

Recent regattas

The latest events where a Tartan 410 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.

No regattas found yet.

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Round the buoys, or offshore

A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.

Round the buoys

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Not enough data yet: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.

Offshore & coastal

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Not enough data yet: no races over 10 NM carry a published distance.

Who she races against

The designs a Tartan 410 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.

Not enough data yet to say who this design races against. No result we have collected puts it on the water beside another design we track.

Speed at every angle

The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.

36930°60°90°120°150°WIND9.6

Upwind VMG

5.48

38°

Beam reach

8.68

90°

Broad reach

9.42

135°

Downwind VMG

7.85

170°

Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.

Where it wins and where it pays

Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.

This one is at home going to windward. Windward-leeward courses give it more of what it is good at than a coastal race does.

Where it gains

Its best ground is on the beam when it blows, where it goes better than its measurements say it should, and by a margin worth having.

Where it pays

It falls short off the wind when it blows, giving away time it never gets back. That is a displacement hull working to its designed speed.

Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.

True wind
Upwind+0.11 kn
Beam reach+0.20 kn
Broad reach+0.04 kn
Downwind-0.04 kn

Full width is 0.4 kn either way.

At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.

How fast is a Tartan 410

Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.

Angle6 kn10 kn14 kn20 kn
Beat VMG3.494.865.365.48
52°5.357.097.587.73
60°5.667.297.797.96
75°5.867.458.038.35
90°5.737.538.148.68
110°5.727.698.509.34
120°5.567.568.469.57
135°4.977.118.169.42
150°4.196.307.658.77
Run VMG3.635.466.737.85

How they are set up

The range each sail spans across the fleet.

Mainsail42 m² – 53 m²
Headsail48 m² – 58 m²
Gennaker103 m² – 136 m²

Nearly all carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 790 kg.

Rigging

Tartan 410 rig and sail dimensions

A Tartan 410 carries 15.47 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.49 m boom, a forestay 17.08 m above the deck and a 5.36 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 4 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.

Rig

Mainsail hoistP15.47 m14.20 – 15.55
Boom lengthE5.49 m5.13 – 5.54
Forestay heightIG17.08 m16.46 – 17.46
Fore triangle baseJ4.57 m4.55 – 4.59
Spinnaker hoistISP17.08 m16.46 – 17.46
BowspritTPS5.36 m4.88 – 5.62
Boom above deckBAS1.76 m1.74 – 1.77

Sails

Mainsail49.3 m²42.1 – 52.5
Headsail53.7 m²47.5 – 58.4
Gennaker124.7 m²102.7 – 135.7

The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 103 to 136 m² depending on bowsprit and set-up. Before ordering a sail, read the figure on your own measurement record rather than the typical one for the design.