Baltic 112 Reichel-Pugh Nauta

This 112 footer is a high performance sailing yacht with racing speed potentials but with full cruising comfort. Cruising comfort means additional weight, and additional weight means compromising performance. In other words, these two “worlds” are in conflict with each other, and in order to minimize or eliminate this conflict, it is essential that the weight is kept to a minimum wherever possible.

The main light weight items in this project are naturally a light weight interior, a carbon prepreg hull, and deck laminates, to mention a few. However, to build a light boat and still have good cruising comfort means chasing weight wherever possible during the whole design and production phase. Through the years we have produced a large number of light, very high-tech, high performance cruiser-racers, and have accumulated a vast amount of technical knowledge and experience in this particular niche of yacht construction. In other words, these are the type of challenges that we are good at and that we like to face.

The end result will be a sailing yacht with a superb finish and quality and a 100% cruising atmosphere while maintaining the sailing characteristics of a top racing yacht.

The concept and styling for this project is done by Nauta Yachts, naval architecture by Reichel/Pugh, and the owner’s project management handled by Marine Construction Management (MCM). Baltic Yachts have done a number of projects with Reichel/Pugh in the past but Nauta Design and MCM are new acquaintances to us, and we are looking forward to cooperating with this team. The preparation work, drawings, specifications, weight calculations etc. performed by the owner and his team are immaculately carried out down to the finest detail.

Delivery summer 2010.