Tanzer Industries
Tanzer Industries Limited was a Canadian boat manufacturer based in Dorion, Quebec. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fibreglass sailboats.
History
The company was founded by Johann Tanzer in 1966 and went bankrupt in May 1986. Johann Tanzer designed many of the boats his company sold.During the period the company was in business it became one of the largest sailboat manufacturers in Canada. The most produced boat was the Tanzer 22 with 2,271 built. The company built over 8,000 boats of all types.
Aside from the main manufacturing facility, Tanzer Industries LTD, in Dorion, Quebec, the company also had operations on the US east and west coasts at Edenton, North Carolina as Tanzer Yachts, Inc. and in Arlington, Washington as Tanzer Yachts. Which plant manufactured a particular boat is indicated by the first three letters of the boat's HIN, or hull identification number. A MIC of TAN or, later, ZTI means the boat was built in Quebec, a MIC of TNE that it was built in North Carolina, and a MIC of TNY that it was built in Washington.