The Perfect Tiara Yacht For The Way You Boat
A Comparison Of The Tiara Yachts Lineup
For more than 50 years, Tiara Yachts has been crafting quality boats. While quality craftsmanship became the Tiara Yacht calling card, quality alone was never the whole ambition. The legacy of Tiara Yachts has always been to build boats that personify what boaters really want, which means the design and capabilities of boats have had to change as boaters have.
Boating lifestyles have changed.
There was a time when a Tiara Yacht was known as a capable cabin boat, built to carry you and the people you love somewhere far away and keep you comfortable for a month at a time, whether it was the North Channel or a month-long voyage that stretched to the Bahamas.
Then life just got…busier. The love of the water never went anywhere, but the time to spend on it got harder to protect. For more and more boaters, the perfect trip became a single perfect day on the water.
That shift is where the lineup you see today began, with each series ‘berthed’ directly from the feedback of boaters, just like you. This came about by talking to actual boaters about what worked, what didn’t, and what they wished the boat could do. Among those boaters? The designers and craftsmen of Tiara Yachts. Listening to customers’ feedback became a way of life, along with them having feedback of their own, because they also spend their favorite days on the water.
The evolution of listening to boaters and being at the center of those conversations became the Tiara Yacht lineup. Every series stays true to itself while also staying true to the luxury that defines a Tiara Yacht. The Luxury Sport (LS), Luxury Crossover (LX), Luxury Express (LE), and the inboard EX series form a unique lineup. In these series, you'll find a boat for every kind of boater, matched to the ways real boaters spend their time on the water.
The question is: Which one belongs with you?
Similarities That Make The Difference
Before defining the differences between the series, it is key to understand the thread that runs through each series in the lineup and each model within that series.
Luxury You Feel, See And Never Hear
Each of the names in the series nods to the luxury that not just defines but permeates every detail of a Tiara Yacht. When you step onboard, you’ll find luxury in every place that your eye lands and your hands can touch. The standard of luxury is so much a part of the Tiara Yacht experience that the details fade into the background, because each element was chosen to put the focus back on the water.
Some of the luxury felt onboard is almost imperceptible, because it is simply the absence of something you never notice until it is gone. Marine engine builders define this as noise, vibration, and overall harshness. It can present as a constant buzz that comes up through the deck and into your feet, or a low hum still ringing in your ears an hour after you have tied up. A great deal of engineering goes into keeping those things off of a Tiara Yacht, so that what is left is conversation, the water, and the sound of the boat moving through it.
Two Boats In One
Functionality is another commonality among the entire Tiara Yacht lineup, because we recognize that a boat rarely serves a singular purpose. The same boat that carries a group of friends out on the water on a Saturday afternoon is the one that takes your family somewhere quiet on Sunday morning. The way the boat is configured needs to be able to adapt to each way your crew connects to the water. Every series in the lineup is built with that in mind, so that the boat can be arranged around the day you plan for, and all the ways the day takes on a life of its own.
Nowhere is that more apparent than in the transformational cockpit, which appears in some form on every boat in the lineup.
This innovation was inspired by the way that a day on the water unfolds, with the boat expected to be multiple things in the very same afternoon. While you are underway at speed, you want everyone seated facing forward, comfortable and secure. But the moment you reach your favorite spot and drop anchor, forward-facing seats are no longer what the occasion calls for and can be easily converted into a conversation area to interact with each other and the water.
On many of the models, the side of the boat lowers to become a terrace with a wide platform at water level that boaters have lovingly nicknamed “the teak beach”. It brings you close enough to put your feet in and be part of the water rather than watching it from the railing. It makes swimming, snorkeling, and water play a natural extension of the day.
On many models, there’s the option for a rotating cockpit lounge that can face the terrace, so that the seating naturally follows the day rather than working against it.
Forward, out, or aft, the seat locks into various positions. It’s important to note that although not every model transforms the same way, the way that the yacht adapts to the boater's needs stays constant. On the smaller boats, seats slide, backrests fold, and separate seating zones come together into a single lounge. The mechanism varies from model to model, but the intention never veers off course, keeping connection to the water as the focus.
The LS Series: Luxury Sport
The LS series is made up of the 35 LS, 39 LS, 43 LS, 46 LS, and the 56 LS, all bringing something unique to this large series but also staying true to the purpose of the luxury sport lineup.
The purpose is the ultimate day boat. The LS series was created in response to the demand for a luxury day boat that aligned with the way boaters spend their time on the water. It is the perfect series for boaters who want to spend the whole day out on the water, tie up the boat at the slip, and then return home satisfied with everything the day held.
The LS was the first Tiara Yachts series designed specifically around outboard propulsion, and it took the center console layout somewhere it had never been. Traditionally, a center console design is built around fishing, with the helm set in the middle of the deck so you can work a full 360 degrees around the boat.
Tiara Yachts took that wide-open design and made it luxury, all while keeping it deeply connected to the water.
The console sits farther forward, which opens up the entire back of the boat, and it is wider as well, wide enough to make room for a true yacht companionway leading down into the cabin. One side of the console is closed off and fitted with steps up to an elevated boarding platform on the port side, so getting on and off at a tall dock is far easier. The bow becomes a true bow rider, with wrap-around seating where you and your guests can sit facing the view.
Below deck, you will find more cabin than any other center console on the water. Every LS has a private head behind a proper enclosed door, and from 39 feet and up, the head also includes a separate shower. Most days you will not need any of it, but it is there when you do, whether that means running down the coast for a weekend and arriving to find your reservation has fallen through, or simply that someone needs half an hour to themselves in the air conditioning before coming back on deck.
Each model of the LS series brings its own version of that idea. The 35 LS uses a convertible aft module that transforms on demand, shifting from two seating zones into one generous lounge. The 39 LS and 43 LS can feature the rotating lounge module, which features the Tiara Yacht signature rotating seat that can swivel to face forward into the cockpit or aft toward the water. Or the option for an adventure module, which replaces the luxury seating with capabilities for fishing or water sports. At 46 feet, something changes, as the 46 LS adds a sliding pilot house door that protects the helm and lets you walk forward to the bow or aft to the cockpit while the boat is running, along with a mid-cabin stateroom, a portside terrace, a mid-cockpit galley, and a choice of three aft cockpit modules, the buffet lounge module, the chaise lounge module or the adventure module. The 56 LS carries it the furthest, being the largest outboard-powered boat Tiara Yachts has ever built, with two staterooms, two private heads, terraces on both sides, and pilot house doors to port and starboard, and is available with either the buffet lounge module, designed for alfresco dining, or the adventure module.
All models that make up the Luxury Sport series stay true to their calling, keeping the water as the focus, while taking performance to a level that makes them incredibly fun and undeniably Tiara.
The LX Series: Luxury Crossover
The LX series is currently represented by the 34 LX, a boat that shares the day boat purpose of the LS but answers a different question about how you want to spend that day.
That question is protection. An LS, while offering some protection, is most often enjoyed wide open, which is perfect if you boat in Florida or anywhere else the weather cooperates most of the year. But go up the coast to the Carolinas, the Chesapeake, or Long Island Sound, out to the Great Lakes and into Canada, and you find something boaters down south rarely think about: a boating season. This is when boats sadly get stored away for the winter. When the boating season does come along, you do get to enjoy the water, but only a handful of days are without any thought for weather.
The most visible differentiator of the 34 LX is the windshield, which runs the full beam of the boat from one side to the other and creates a genuinely protected cockpit. You pass through on a centerline walkway to reach the bow seating, so the front of the boat stays every bit as inviting as it is on an LS. Add a three-piece soft enclosure with a drop curtain and the cockpit becomes a space you can heat or cool, which changes what your calendar looks like. A sunny but chilly weekend in April becomes a day on the water instead of a day spent waiting, and so does one in October. For any avid boater working with a short season to get out on the water, gaining a month (or a day) on either end is a big victory.
Protection is not just about the cold, either. Florida can go the other way, where the sun and sudden downpours are what you need protection from, and the LX gives you that too. It makes the series a natural fit for families, where everyone stays comfortable even on the longest days.
The 34 LX brings the benefits of protection from the elements without losing visibility or a feeling of connection to the water, all on a boat of 34 feet. Transformational aft seating lets guests find their own spot for lounging, the centerline walkway leads forward to additional seating in the bow, and a well-equipped galley, dedicated marine storage, and a private head below make it comfortable for a full day out.
There’s only one model in the LX lineup, and that is because it is one that boaters turn to again and again when protection from the elements makes going out on the water not only possible but enjoyable!
The LE Series: Luxury Express
The LE series is made up of the 39 LE, 43 LE, and 48 LE, and it is the series that answers a different question than the day boats do. Where will you end your day?
If you are familiar with the Tiara Yacht name, the LE is probably the boat you picture in your mind’s eye. It comes from the longest-running part of the Tiara Yacht heritage: boats built for going somewhere and staying a while. The Coupe is a true yacht with proper heads, proper beds, a galley, and a fully enclosed salon. It is a layout Tiara pioneered, and the idea behind it was simple. On most older cruisers, the galley lived below deck, which meant whoever was hosting spent the day down in the cabin, in the dark, away from everyone else. But on the 43 LE and 48 LE, bringing the galley up puts the host in the middle of the party with a 360-degree view of the harbor. This design leaves below deck to what belongs there, which is heads and beds.
Even the smallest of the series, the 39 LE, whose galley remains below deck, doesn’t feel dark or isolated; with the glass detail brought even to the galley and cabins below, the connection to your surroundings is never lost.
The LE is that same Coupe layout, but built around outboards instead of inboard propulsion. Hanging the engines off the transom instead of housing them inside the hull frees up even more interior cabin space than the Coupe series traditionally had. Everybody gets a berth; there is always a head with a shower, and at 48 feet, there are two of each. Interior cabins continue to show the luxury of the Tiara Yacht LE lineup with teak throughout, hidden and secure storage, and high-end materials that not only look great, but stand the test of time.
The LE takes everything learned on the LS and the LX, so you still get the transformational cockpit, the furniture rotating toward the terrace, and every bit of the day boating enjoyment those series are built around. What the LE adds is the ability to stay onboard for an extended period of time and never miss home.
Every boater wants the perfect salon enclosure to stay comfortable, along with all of the glorious details of being out on the water. Hearing the water going by and smelling the salt air. The bulkhead between the cockpit and the salon disappears, with a door that slides open and a window beside it that drops down, on the galley side, so the wall between inside and outside simply goes away and the two spaces become melded into one. Sliding windows along the sides bring the air through, and a sunroof opens overhead, making the entire space feel completely open.
Then the weather turns, as it does even in the most tropical destinations, and it all closes up just as easily. Turn on the heat or the air conditioning to stay comfortable, and the salon becomes a living room, with warm interior teak and the elements kept on the other side of the glass. The same is true underway, when a boat that is already remarkably quiet gets even quieter once the doors are closed. That is the transformational salon, and it is what lets the same boat go from day boating fun with a big group to something instantly cozy to enjoy with family.
With the 39 LE, the 43 LE, and the 48 LE, there are no compromises, just complete luxury, and the Tiara Yacht thread woven through and through.
The EX Series: Flexible Luxury
The EX series is made up of the EX 54 and the EX 60, and it is the series that gathers up everything the rest of the lineup has learned and carries it somewhere further from home.
The purpose of the EX series is pure exploration. It was crafted not just for a single perfect day, but for a string of them. Waking up in a place you want to explore for more than just an afternoon and for trips that not only let you learn about your boat, but for a series of days out on the water that let you learn about yourself. Above 50 feet, pods are the right propulsion answer, so the EX series runs on inboard power and is built for genuine cruising.
What sets the EX apart from a traditional coupe begins along the side of the boat, with a recessed walkway that gives you safe access to the bow and the stern while the boat is underway. This walkway is what made it possible to bring the pilot house door into a coupe layout for the first time, a feature developed over years on the larger LS models and one of the true joys of day boating.
If you have never experienced a pilot house door, it is a true advantage for the person steering the boat. It means you can stand in the open doorway with your hand inside on the joystick and bring a sixty-foot yacht into a slip, or alongside a fuel dock, or into another tight space, with perfect visibility up and down the side of the hull. One person can captain this boat, but when there is help aboard, they can move around the deck, tie up, and cleat off without climbing onto an elevated walkway to do it, which is an enormous improvement to both the safety and the enjoyment of every docking.
The bow becomes a destination as well. On a coupe, approaching the front of the boat while underway is tenuous at best, and there was never a reason to be up there in the first place. On the EX, there is a recessed chaise lounge space designed to be enjoyed, where you can sit rather than being required to lie down, and you can reach it comfortably and safely at full speed.
Aft, more of the boat is given over to the cockpit than the Coupe traditionally allowed for, shifting the enjoyment outward toward the water. A breakfast bar sits just outside the sliding doors, a dining area fills the lower cockpit, and twin terraces open up both sides of the boat. Together with the bow, the whole boat becomes one continuous entertaining space, built on exactly what the LS proved first. Forward of it all sits a proper salon, still the intimate space you close up at the end of a long day with the people closest to you.
Then there is the helm, which the EX treats as a command center. The captain sits to starboard, right beside the pilot house door, with perfect visibility out the front of the boat. Directly opposite on the port side is a true co-pilot seat, eyes at the same elevation, the same proximity to the windshield, and Garmin screens of their own. That arrangement came directly from listening to owners, who said something wonderfully honest. They love their partner very much, and they want them along for the run from Tampa to the Keys, participating in it, but not elbow to elbow for eight hours. So the co-pilot has their own space and their own screens, whether that means sharing the navigation or catching up on a few things while the miles go by, and the person at the helm never feels alone, or like they are driving a bus instead of steering a yacht.
Each model in the EX series carries that at its own scale. The EX 54 runs just over 54 feet with a beam of nearly 16 feet, while the EX 60 stretches past 60 feet with three staterooms and two heads below, and a selection of alfresco and aft cockpit modules that let you configure the exterior around the way you live onboard.
With the EX series, the destination stops being a place you visit and becomes a place you stay without feeling like you ever left home.
Crafted By Boaters, Built For You
Four series in the Tiara Yacht lineup, and all of them exist today because boaters kept talking, Tiara Yachts kept testing, and we all kept boating.
The evolution of the lineup has been built in stages, with each new model added from the requests of boaters who love luxury, performance, and craftsmanship, but love being out on the water most of all.
So the question was never which boat is best. The question remains: Which one belongs with you?