2017 Tartan 4300 Sailboat Sea Trial and Walkthrough in Seattle, WA

Yacht Broker Byron Shirley of Seattle Yachts takes a 2017 Tartan 4300, "Kay Syrah" out for a sail in Seattle's Elliott Bay Marina, and does a full walkthrough. This gorgeous vessel is very well equipped for long-distance cruising, with two headsails, in-boom furling Main sail, carbon fiber mast, a watermaker, diesel-powered heating, bow thruster, davit and tender and much more.
"Kay Syrah" is listed for sale with Seattle Yachts in Seattle, WA. Details, including price, Here: www.seattleyac...
Video shot by walkervalleyme... Thanks Jeff Eaton!

[@shaunasheim1892]

Beautiful vessel nice video walkthru

[@kiowa1508]

Frankly, this 7 year old boat looks like it was just taken out of a time capsule. For a blue water boat…the nav station’s condition…and everything else on the boat…it doesn’t appear that it ever left it’s slip, or even visited! I’m sure it really enjoyed your brief sail😜.

[@byronshirley516]

@@kiowa1508 825 hours on the engine, it’s seen use (in the PNW in the summer there’s often not enough wind, plus 10-foot tides, so you end up under power often even if your sails are up). The sails show some use. But yes, it looks very gently used.

[@par4par72]

Hey Slick. We could care less about the mess in the Aft Cabin ..we measure with or eyes ! Not our feeling !!

[@byronshirley516]

@@par4par72 the aft cabin was packed with gear and extras that come with the boat :)

[@sailaway2205]

Painful to watch.

[@byronshirley516]

Thanks! Glad the effort was worth it.

[@Jumbo-D]

Sail Drive kills a nice boat. Nothing but an over grown day sailor.

[@byronshirley516]

Saildrives are incredibly common now on most production boats like Beneteau, Jeanneau, Bavaria, Hanse, and those are not “day boats”. They are space saving and less expensive and time consuming to install, and don’t require alignment.
They are not perfect as they have a huge bellow that can fail and is a bit expensive to replace (every ten year job), but I disagree that it ruins the boat. This is a fine sailboat, and under sail I don’t know how it would make the sailing experience any different than with a shaft boat.
Just my 2-cents, I’m not a designer, engineer, I’ve just been on a LOT of boats.

[@Jumbo-D]

@@byronshirley516 - Cheap production boat manufacturers install sail-drives because it's a cheaper way to build a boat. Tell me how it makes sense to cut a huge hole in the bottom of a boat for no good reason. You are either a shill or lack experience and knowledge about boats.

[@byronshirley516]

@ you’re entitled to your opinions.