Tahiti owners were, in order...
1. Dick Schuster
2. Bell Industries
3. Hardin Marine. Tahiti's were not built by Tahiti and then sent to Hardin to rig. By that time Hardin owned Tahiti and Carribean, both were built and rigged in house by the same riggers and laminators. One was marketed as a higher level of boat then the other. I could never tell which one that was.
Tahiti made full length stringer boats from the very begining, you had to ask for and pay for it extra as a customer though.