written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . march 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message tiara yachts is a boat manufacturer based in holland michigan . its models include both fishing and cruising boats ranging from 29 58 feet . the company is most famous for coining the term open to describe its tiara 3100 . tiara has a sister company known as pursuit that produces models from 25 39 feet with outboard engines . contents 1 history of company 2 yachts offered by tiara 2.1 coronet 2.2 open 2.3 sovran 2.4 convertible 3 references 4 external links history of company edit tiara yachts is known for building mid sized luxury yachts . 1 the company s founder leon slikkers owned and operated another yacht building company before he founded his second company s2 yachts parent company to tiara . even before that slikkers worked at chris craft . slikkers next move in his career was owning and operating slickcraft which focused on building motor powered boats . in the late 1960s many large public yacht companies were looking to buy smaller companies in the interest of drawing new stock holders and diversifying their stock . a company based in new york called american machine and foundry amf gained interest in slickcraft . in september 1969 slikkers sold the company while still holding his position as president . after a few years with this new company slikkers left claiming that they were not committed to the same level of excellence as he was . slikkers then proceeded to leave amf and slickcraft behind to create a new company with his sons which his family stills owns and operates today s2 yachts and all of its child companies such as tiara yachts . 1 on february 18 1974 s2 yachts was founded . shortly after s2 yachts was founded slikkers two older sons finished college and joined their father at the company . s2 began rolling sailboats off the lot almost right away however a few more years down the line leon began to feel the same pressures as before . fortunate for him he had a larger company this time more capital than before and both his sons on his side . all these factors allowed s2 to gain momentum in this ever competitive industry still able to remain a private company . in 1976 leon decided that it was time for another change of pace within the company . these changes lead s2 yachts to building motor yachts . as a result of the high sales of this new line of yachts it was decided to create a totally new division in the company that would focus on motor yachts only . tiara yachts was incorporated . 2 yachts offered by tiara edit tiara offers four models of yachts the coronet open sovran and the convertible . coronet edit the coronet comes in three sub series 3100 3600 and 3900 . the coronet is a fairly new style presented by tiara . it is designed as a day boat . 3 open edit the open model comes in four series the 3100 3600 3900 and the 4300 . this model of boat by tiara was originally designed with sports fishing in mind . however tiara decided to modify the design a bit in order to take the focus off the fishing and refocus it on just cruising around . 3 sovran edit the sovran model comes with three series the 3900 4500 and 5800 . firstly this sovran model is generally bigger than the other models . this model is built for luxury . 3 convertible edit the convertible model comes in only two models 3900 and 4100 . this model is built for deep sea fishing and deep sea boating . 3 references edit a b http jointarchives.org quarter fall05.pdf 1 archived august 9 2013 at the wayback machine . a b c d tiara yachts family . n.d. . tiara yachts . retrieved april 15 2013 from www.tiarayachts.com external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tiara yachts & oldid 731622540 categories companies based in michiganhidden categories articles with wayback machine linksarticles with a promotional tone from march 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 july 2016 at 14 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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