Path has notably spacious accommodation for the crewaswell as the owners and up to eight other guests. The full-beammaster suite is amidships, beneath the deckhouse with a separate lounge and large bathroom
generators. ‘The owner’s cabin is just forward of the engine room,’ Hawkins says. ‘For that we took some inspiration fromCanova, the Baltic 142. The engine has a drive leg rather than a straight shaft, which gives more flexibility in the positioning of the engine room. A lot of effort went into sound deadening and the batteries occupy the forward part of the engine room, providing a buffer zone between the engine and owner’s cabin.’ Path has conventional mechanical and electrical systems. One of the two big Northern Lights generators will be runningmost of the time. A lazarette located aft houses the
night generator as well as the back-up systems. This ensures that noise and vibrations are minimised in the owner’s cabin and guest areas when Path is on passage or anchored.With the aft engine roomand transomgarage for an 8hp electric RIB taking upmuch of the stern, itmade sense to fit a twin-rudder steering system. Themain tender, carried on (or rather, in) the foredeck is a 6.5m twin-engine Ribeye. Path’s main engine is a 550hp eight-
cylinder Scania diesel, the first from Baltic Yachts with IMO Tier III emission status. The drivetrain is a highly efficient
saildrive developed by Baltic and Hundested with a forward-facing, azimuthing propeller that feathers to reduce drag. The drive leg rotates 340° to serve as a stern/midships thruster for manoeuvring in harbour, with ample power to drive off the windward side of a dock even in very strong winds. ‘This one is not used for power regeneration and unlike the drives on My Song and Liara it doesn’t retract into the hull,’
Hawkins says. ‘The main drawback with retractable drives is not somuch the cost but the volume consumed inside the boat by the wet box. It really does become a defining feature that you have to put somewhere.’ Instead of using the propeller for hydrogenation, and in line with the project’s focus on well-proven reliable systems, Path has a 60sqm, 8kWarray of solar panels coveringmuch of the coachroof. ‘Solar is a long way from being truly viable as an alternative to a diesel powered generator but it does have a significant charging capacity,’ Hawkins says. Path was delivered ahead of schedule
The lifting keel allows access to amuch wider range of destinations, reducing draught from 5.9m to 3.4m
and kudos is clearly due to the project managers all overseen by Tatiana Kurbatova as the owner’s representative: Siefer at judel/vrolijk, Patric Brännbacka andMikael Nyberg at Baltic Yachts, and Sebastian Allebrodt fromA2B. ’What stands outmost forme about this project is just how well the teaminteracted together,’ Hawkins says. ‘Everyone was thinking and planning ahead. Youmake your decision and you don’t go back, or you soon start running into problems. That’s so important, especially on the client side.’
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