- Founded
- 1966
- Headquarters
- Pietarsaari, Finland
- Shipyard location
- Same as headquarters
- Official website
- https://www.nautorswan.com
Image: Nautor Swan, from the brand's official site
Brand Overview
Finnish builder of luxury sailing yachts, founded in 1966 in Pietarsaari and known worldwide as Nautor Swan.
Overview written fromnautorswan.com/company/read 9/6/2026
YachtCodex Analysis
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What this builder is
Nautor Swan is a storied Finnish luxury sailing yacht builder founded in 1966, historically associated with Sparkman & Stephens and Germán Frers designs, known for elegant, high-performance blue-water cruisers and one-design racing yachts. It occupies the premium end of the monohull sailing market, distinguished by in-house integrated production at its Pietarsaari yard and a dedicated racing division (ClubSwan).
Who sails them
Nautor Swan owners are typically experienced sailors and often affluent yacht owners who use their boats for extended offshore cruising, ocean passages, and one-design or offshore racing (ClubSwan line); crews range from small family crews on cruising models to full racing crews on ClubSwan boats. Many yachts are owner-operated with professional crew support, and some larger Maxi models are chartered.
Signature models
The Swan 36 began the line in 1967 and the Swan 65 Sayula II won the first Whitbread Round the World Race, which is the heritage the brand still trades on. Today the range runs in four parts: the Swan 51 to 73 cruising yachts, the Maxi Swans from 80 to 128, the ClubSwan 28 to 50 one-design racers that gave the brand its own racing circuit, and the Swan Shadow, OverShadow and Arrow motor yachts, the yard's first powerboats.
Strengths
Nautor Swan is widely credited with exceptional build quality through its fully integrated in-house manufacturing, strong design pedigree (Sparkman & Stephens, Germán Frers), and yachts that hold their value well on the brokerage market.
Considerations
Swan yachts sit at the premium/luxury end of production sailing, so pricing is high relative to volume builders; the range is narrower and more specialized (performance-cruising and racing) than mass-market brands, and buyers pay a premium for the brand heritage and build quality.
Analysis generated 9/6/2026
Part of
Sanlorenzo Group↗ · since 2024
Previously Palazzo Feroni Finanziaria (1998–2024)
Also in the catalogue
Official sites
Every site this builder runs. Some keep a separate one for a separate range.
- Sailing yachts
https://www.nautorswan.com
- Swan Shadow — motor range
https://www.swanshadow.net
Where they build
The building sites this yard publishes, in its own order.
Pietarsaari
Pietarsaari, Finland
Fleet at a Glance
22 models in total
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
Sailing range
- Models in catalog
- 19
- Length range
- 10.7–42.62 m
- Hull forms
- Sailing Monohull 19
- Cabins
- 2–5
Motor range
- Models in catalog
- 3
- Length range
- 13–23.2 m
- Hull forms
- Motor Monohull 3
- Cabins
- 1–3
Models by this brand
22 models
ClubSwan 125
LOA: 42.62 m
ClubSwan 28
LOA: 10.7 m
ClubSwan 36
LOA: 10.99 m
ClubSwan 43
LOA: 14.56 m
ClubSwan 50
LOA: 16.74 m
ClubSwan 80
LOA: 24.7 m
Swan 108
LOA: 35.66 m
Swan 120
LOA: 37.94 m
Swan 128
Swan 48 MKII
LOA: 15.78 m
Swan 51
LOA: 16.9 m
Swan 54
LOA: 17 m
Swan 55
LOA: 17.75 m
Swan 58
LOA: 19.11 m
Swan 65
LOA: 21.76 m
Swan 73
LOA: 23.67 m
Swan 80
LOA: 25.55 m
Swan 88
LOA: 28.27 m
Swan 98
LOA: 31.05 m
Swan Arrow
LOA: 23.2 m
Swan OverShadow
LOA: 13 m
Swan Shadow
LOA: 13.2 m
History
Oy Nautor AB was founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä at Pietarsaari, Finland, on centuries of Finnish boatbuilding and a wish to build high-performance sailing yachts of high quality. The first was the Swan 36, whose glass-reinforced hull came with a number of other innovations: it matched the traditional wooden yacht for performance and safety while steering more steadily, weighing less and offering more room below. Sparkman & Stephens drew roughly the first thousand Swans, the Swan 38 and Swan 47 among them, and the larger, seagoing Swan 55 and Swan 65 followed -- one of them, Sayula II, winning the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74. Ron Holland designed five yachts between 1978 and 1981, including the Swan 37, 39 and 42, and Germán Frers became the principal designer through the 1980s, later opening the one-design racing division with the Swan 45 in 2001 and the ClubSwan 42 in 2005. More than 2,350 yachts between 28 and 131 feet have been built in six decades. Everything is made at Pietarsaari, where engineering sits beside production, and the range now runs across six lines: Swan, Swan Maxi, ClubSwan, Swan Alloy, SwanScape and the motor yacht division Swan Shadow.
History written fromnautorswan.com/company· Our historyread 9/25/2026