The newsemi-custom Baltic 68 Café Racer.High performance has never been this easy to handle
Bock – led by Professor Hans Georg Näder, a longstanding client of Baltic Yachts – and its future was secured. Henry Hawkins, a yacht captain with vast practical experience including many thousands of oceanmiles as skipper of Näder’s yachts, joined Baltic, taking on a large part of Johansson’s role. Näder’s own 175ft
Pink Gin VI is one of themost notable recent builds and currently the world’s largest carbon composite sloop with a rig 16mtaller than a J Class. Her key features include fold-down platforms in her topsides just above the waterline that are large enough to walk through, one amidships in themain saloon and one forward in the owner’s suite. While relatively easy to build on a largemotor yacht, putting large apertures in highly stressed parts of a sailing yacht hull without reducing its stiffness was amajor engineering challenge, solved bymechanically locking the platforms firmly in place to become structural parts of the hull. Another recent showcase of
”The first electric drive that provides enough regeneration under sail to cross the Atlanticwithout using any fossil fuel”
host of other advanced features such as an immensely strong coachroof with a featherlight look and an electric drive systemthat provides enough regeneration capability under sail to cross the Atlantic without using any fossil fuel – with both sailing and hotel systems running. After four years of cruising, a wide range of what used to be bleeding-edge technologies are now proven to work reliably.
Tomark Baltic Yachts’ 50th
Baltic’s innovation is the 142ft Canova, whichmade headlines in 2019 as the world’s first superyacht with a DSS foil to reduce pitching and heeling, plus a
anniversary, the first Baltic 46 Queen Anne returned to the yard last spring for a refit. Two of themen who built her – Johansson and Jan-Erik Nyfelt, whose grandchildren now work at Baltic – were delighted to find her in excellent condition, which a survey duly confirmed. ‘No structural works are needed, the hull appendages are sound, as is themast,’ Hawkins says. ‘It’s also interesting that the original propulsion setup was still operational and in good order. The enjoyment at our end was the size of everything compared to today, fromfibre technology to deck fittings. There are 18 winches on that boat; amodern 100-footer uses just seven or eight!’ She will be relaunched in June after a
cosmetic refit, with a new engine. What direction is Baltic Yachts
likely to take in the future? The 68ft cruiser-racer Pink Gin Verdemight hold a few clues with its 50 per cent flax fibre hull andmicro-turbine hybrid propulsion system, but as Baltic’s CEO Anders Kurtén puts it, ‘That all depends on where our customers want to take us.’ ‘We are fortunate and honoured to
build some of themost exciting, groundbreaking customsailing yachts in the world whichmeans the next majormilestone will forever be the next launch, summer 2023 being a perfect example,’ he says. ‘My best guess for the future is ever increasing sustainable practices and yachts with diminishing lifecycle emissions, as well as quantumleaps in terms of pure sailing performance.’
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One of the key figures in the story of Baltic Yachts, co-founder Jan- ErikNyfelt, passed away on 28 January. A highly respected senior foreman in the yard from1973 to 2002 – and before that, one of the first employees atNautor – he leaves an important legacy in Finland’s boatbuilding industry.
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