Shannon was founded in 1975 by Walter Schulz to design and build offshore yachts to the highest quality standards. Over the past 40 + years, Shannons have earned an international reputation for the highest quality construction and offshore integrity. Shannon has more ocean miles by average husband and wife sailing teams than any other boat building company in the industry and has logged over one million ocean miles, including an impressive list of circumnavigations and transoceanic passages. Every major harbor in the world has been visited by a Shannon and our boatbuilding experience is an unbroken, evolutionary chain from Shannon 38 #1 to the present day.