Every custom yacht needs a vision. More than just a design brief, rather a broader and larger statement of the ultimate objective. This was a bolder vision than most...
Baltic 142 DSS In the depths of winter at Baltic Yachts in Jakobstad, Finland, the finishing touches are being applied to a new 142ft sailing yacht that on New Year’s Day was already being hailed as ‘the most anticipated superyacht launch of 2019’. The product of tens of thousands of hours of design, engineering and construction, and unfet- tered free-range thinking, this is a yacht that draws upon a host of innovative tech- nologies and has the potential to redefine the sailing superyacht for years to come. The owner, a longtime Baltic Yachts
client and an experienced yachtsman with several circumnavigations to his credit, had developed a comprehensive set of objectives for the project. He was adamant that he did not want the last or even the best yacht of the previous generation. Bringing decades of sailing experience to
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bear on the decision-making path, he was prepared to consider every possible option to achieve the yacht that would embody his vision, and beyond. At its core the yacht is a blue water per-
formance cruiser – aren’t they all? But this one would be able to sustain itself indepen- dently of the services of the Mediterranean superyacht yards. A yacht equally at home in the Southern Ocean or the lagoons of the South Pacific, all while being sailed by a small crew with the owner living onboard. A yacht that would be able to dry out on its own keel and generate its own electricity without diesel power for ocean passages. A yacht capable of new levels of perfor- mance; able to sail in excess of 400nm/day on passage, all while being safe, responsive and supremely comfortable. The central tenets of this brief are entirely consistent with the experience of
the owner, and when written down in black and white may appear quite unre- markable. But they belie the many layers of complexity and technical challenges to be navigated to realise the owner’s vision in a yacht of this scale. Baltic Yachts have a long and illustrious
history of delivering ‘visions’ to discerning clients, and embracing technical challenges is a core part of their DNA. But the Baltic 142 DSS represents more than the odd technical challenge – more a full-scale expedition into the future of the sailing superyacht. With the brief defined and a diverse
spread of novel technologies all under serious consideration, Baltic assembled an experienced team of partners to bring things to reality: l Farr Yacht Design lGordon Kay/Infiniti Yachts l Lucio Micheletti lGurit l Rondal lNorth Sails Italy l BAR Technologies l Isotop Composites In the preliminary stages of the project
Farr Yacht Design (FYD) developed a number of candidate appendage configu- rations that included various canting-keel options (both fixed span and telescopic), fixed-keel options, lift keels and explo- ration of the viability of a Dynamic Stab - ility System foil. Each of these was devel- oped sufficiently to accurately investigate weight, interior layout implications and comparative performance estimates.
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