Targa 41 Review, the Most Livable Targa Yet

Where the Targa 41 sits in Botnia's lineup

New Targas arrive rarely. Botnia Marin, the Finnish family company that has built the boats since founding in 1976, tends to evolve models over decades, and YachtBuyer pointed out that the previous all-new Targa had appeared more than seven years before this one. The Targa 41 made its debut at boot Dusseldorf in January 2024, took over the slot left as the long-running Targa 44 ended production in 2024, and made its US debut in 2025.

It sits between the Targa 37, which itself was completely redesigned for 2026, and the flagship Targa 46. Motor Boat & Yachting called the 41 the most perfectly resolved Targa it had ever tested, and Soundings came away from a rainy run from Mystic, Connecticut to Montauk convinced it is a boat designed to go when others will not.

The 41 also explains why Targa 41 searches can be confusing: Fairline once sold a Targa 41 sport cruiser. That British boat has no connection to the Finnish pilothouse described here.

Hull windows, frameless glass and other Targa firsts

From a distance the 41 looks like any Targa, upright and purposeful with a reverse-raked windshield. Up close, Motor Boat & Yachting counted several firsts for the brand. There are true hull windows instead of small portlights, and the superstructure glass is bonded in without the usual aluminum frames, improving light and views from the salon. The cockpit gets twin side gates, another first, and the pilothouse side doors are larger.

Engine access was rethought too. Two symmetrical hatches hinge forward from the cockpit and open so far that you can stand upright in the engine bay; YachtBuyer noted the marked spaces for an optional generator and Seakeeper and the tidy, symmetrical wiring and plumbing. A hatch in the swim platform gives a view of the props, and the platform can carry a tender.

A cockpit and flybridge finally designed for people

Targas have long been criticized for bare decks with a couple of benches. The 41 changes that. Two L-shaped seating sections flank the central boarding gate aft, facing a bench along the pilothouse bulkhead that includes a seat built into the flybridge steps. A table fits between them, flip-down seats can join the two L-units into one long bench, and the table drops to make a large sunpad while still leaving a path to the side decks.

The compact flybridge has a single helm seat to port and a C-shaped dinette to starboard with a swing-over backrest, a stowed table and an infill for a sunbed. Motor Boat & Yachting judged the 41 the most versatile day-boating platform in its sector. At the bow, the walkaround decks limit the foredeck to a raised island sunpad for about four people, with an optional sunshade. Wide side decks and substantial bulwarks make the trip forward secure, a point East Coast Yacht Sales' president stressed to Soundings.

The teak salon and two very different cabins

The salon is dominated by a long fore-and-aft galley to starboard, as large as the flagship 46's, with a two-burner gas hob or induction if a generator is fitted, a fridge, an oven or microwave and space for a dishwasher. Soundings measured 6 feet 6 inches of headroom despite the flybridge overhead. Opposite is a raised dinette that converts to a double, and a pop-up television on a teak plinth, a first for Targa. Natural teak covers almost everything.

Forward, the owner's cabin has a raised bed, deep fiddled storage and a well-sized en suite with a separate shower. The surprise is the midcabin, reached by its own staircase. It spans the full beam with a double to port and a smaller single to starboard, separated by a curtain rather than a fixed bulkhead, and gets real hull windows. Its compact wet-room head halfway up the stairs doubles as the day head. Several testers thought owners might prefer to sleep aft.

Not everything impressed. Motor Boat & Yachting found the drawer construction, simple glued and screwed butt joints, below the standard expected on a boat costing near a million pounds as tested.

• Owner's cabin forward with en suite and separate shower
• Full-beam midcabin with double and single, hull windows
• Galley as large as the Targa 46's
• Raised dinette converts to a double berth

Sea trial numbers from three different tests

Botnia offers twin Volvo Penta D6-440 or D6-480 sterndrives, or twin IPS650 pods. The builder quotes 36 to 40 knots flat out and a cruise of 22 to 32 knots with the 440s, burning about 3.6 liters per mile at 27 knots, which works out to roughly 26 gallons per hour.

YachtBuyer's UK test boat reached 30 knots in six or seven seconds, topped out at 36 knots and nudged 38 with manual trim, and burned about 90 liters per hour for both engines at 26 knots. Motor Boat & Yachting, testing twin D6 440s, quoted a range of 350 miles at 20 knots. In the US, Soundings ran a boat with twin D6-480s: the dealer gave its all-day cruise at 80 percent load as 31 knots on 35 gallons per hour, for 300-plus miles of range, and the boat reached 38 knots wide open with cabin sound levels in the low 70s dB(A).

All three tests praised the ride. Motor Boat & Yachting called it one of the driest offshore boats it had experienced, with spray thrown so wide that the cockpit stayed dry running across the swells. It also heels and carves like a much smaller sportboat when you want it to.

Owning a Targa 41 stateside

East Coast Yacht Sales in Mystic, Connecticut, the eastern US Targa dealer and a former long-time Grand Banks dealer, says it works with Botnia to Americanize boats, specifying US-serviceable components such as Dometic air conditioning, through-hulls and sea strainers. Targa favors traditional physical switches rather than digital switching, which the dealer sees as a plus for owners who cruise far from service.

Plan on roughly $45,000 to $90,000 a year for a 45 to 50-foot slip, insurance on a seven-figure boat, twin-D6 sterndrive or IPS service, bottom work and fuel at planing speeds. Resale data is limited because the model is new, but Targas traditionally hold value well thanks to low production volumes and long waiting lists.