HOW IT ALL BEGAN

In 1973 we were five of us, young men at that time, who eloped from Nautor in order to start our own boat yard to build the very finest sailboats in the world together with a group of native talents of the Bosund region in Finland.

We wanted to create top quality and comfortable cruising yachts with racing potential and with a lighter displacement than the competition, not only in order to increase performance, but also to make life easier and more enjoyable. We had the idea that utilizing more modern high-tech materials and methods could do this. So instead of fighting head to head with other boat yards, we came up with the idea of creating “our own product” for the small niche of very demanding performance cruising/racing sailers

The years 1973 and 1974 were extremely busy for our new company. Not only did we develop and make moulds for our first model, but also prior to this, or rather parallel, we built our factory facilities from scratch.

The first Baltic was shown to the “sailing world” at the Hamburg Boat Show in October 1974. It was the Baltic 46 and we had very positive reactions from “the crowd” and got a good response also from the press. The business, however, was not as good as we had hoped. The world was experiencing its first oil crisis 1973 and this had a negative effect on most businesses including ours.