Ever since 1949 ELAN has been engaged in the production of vessels. The production began with the making of boats, kayaks, canoes, four- and eight-seated sculleries that were made out of waterproof wooden slabs in a special boat workshop, which saw its biggest success in the years of 1950 to 1952. In the following six years the Marine Division temporarily redirected its manufacturing into the production of folding rubberized kayaks, but in 1957 and 1958, having received orders from America, they switched back to the production of wooden vessels. In the next few years they made approximately 700 yachts and other crafts, bearing the name of Olympia, for the American market alone.
Until the emergence of polyester the production was not really planned, but more coincidental. Planned production began in 1962 with the manufacturing of boats from reinforced polyester; the material that at the time meant a revolutionary world innovation in crafts manufacturing. Nowadays Elan Marine is competing in a very aggressive international market of production boats. Elan range of boats consists of fast family cruisers E 295, E 333, E 36, E 362, (E 40 under development) and E 45 all designed by one of world best sailing boat designer Rob Humphreys.

Our opinion is that Elan Marine as a small factory from Slovenia, with over 30 years experience in GRP boats building, has to offer sailing cruisers that:
· Are designed better in sense of seaworthiness than majority of the serial boats
· Are performing very well under sails (better than average)
· Are built in a robust traditional way (hand laid laminates, all parts strictly laminated together), always using components of high quality
· Are having individual character appropriate for their specific size and individual looks
· Some of the models allow semi-custom solutions on-board

These characteristics together are definitely distinguishing Elan boats from majority of mass produced competition boats today.

• Cruising/Racing sailing yachts