Taiwan's Yacht Industry is a small but exquisite industry. Its manufacturing experience in the past thirty years is worth exploring so as to understand the development of this industry. The purpose of this study is to find out the inheritance of its transformational process by discussing the development of Taiwan's yacht industry with a thorough interview and a collection of data. On the perspective of path dependence, this study explores its development and transformational process. The results are as follows. First, Taiwan's chance to develop yacht industry came as the U.S. armies stationed in Taiwan and introduced the technology. However, with the prosperous export of yachts and the stable profits from OEM, the manufactures lacked the stress and motivation to develop their own brands. Because of this, it was difficult for them to learn new skills to avoid the effect of the lock-in. As the global yacht market had shrunk since late 1980s, Taiwan's yacht industry was in rapid decline. Many manufacturers had closed down their factories or lay off the staff. Some factories moved to China to produce small yachts for the lower labor cost there, while the remaining yacht manufacturers in Taiwan strived to transit towards the development of large-scale and customization.