TELL TALES
There can be few yacht builders like PG Johansson, who can boast an unbroken career with the company he co-founded almost 50 years ago. In that time PG Johansson has witnessed every twist and turn of a colourful, exciting and technically pioneering industry accumulating a wealth of fascinating stories, some familiar, some still untold. In this blog PG will be recalling his experiences of the yachts he has built, the people he has met and some of the more unusual events on the journey to turning clients’ dreams into reality.
4 September 2020
SERVICE AND REFIT
A programme of regular service and refit is essential to keep yachts operating faultlessly and to their full potential. Our growing Service and Refit department is offering smaller services up to extensive refits on any size or make of yacht at our facilities in...
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28 August 2020
WE’RE HIRING
Baltic Yachts is one of the world’s leading composite yacht building companies. We take pride in our technical excellence, while staying true to the Baltic Family spirit which we believe reflects our company values. We design and build high performance yachts. Our products are...
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10 July 2020
SUMMER GREETINGS FROM THE YARD
The days are long and the weather looks set fair as we head for the summer holidays and a well-deserved break. With work well advanced on all three yachts in build at Baltic, we are easing down in time for our four-week break. We would...
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9 July 2020
BALTIC 68 CAFÉ RACER – FAIRED TO PERFECTION
Here’s the super-smooth plug of the new Baltic 68 Café Racer, formed over a hand-crafted timber carcass and expertly faired to a perfect finish. The plug is now ready to accept the composite lay-up which will eventually form the mould from which hulls will be...
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15 June 2020
CANOVA FEATURED IN SEAHORSE MAGAZINE
Baltic 142 Canova's groundbreaking systems and cutting-edge technologies such as the largest DSS foil ever built and the ability to cross oceans without resorting to diesel power in any form makes this project one of our most complex builds. Canova was launched in 2019 and...
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4 June 2020
BALTIC 68 CAFÉ RACER – THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
These are the early stages of construction of the new Baltic 68 Café Racer, an eco-friendly, easy to sail yacht for the 21st century with a performance designed to thrill. The video shows our skilled wood workers building the timber hull plug from which a...
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14 May 2020
BALTIC 38 IS A FAVOURITE NOW AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
The 31-year-old Baltic 38DP Favorita has completed an extensive six-month refit at our Bosund facility and has been re-launched to re-join her owner who regards the iconic production yacht as ‘a family member’. Looking as good as new, the Doug Peterson-designed Baltic 38, of which...
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8 May 2020
WELCOME HOME PINK GIN!
Last week, we spotted a handsome silhouette on the horizon outside our dockside facilities in Pietarsaari. The Baltic Family is thrilled to share with you the return of Baltic 175 Pink Gin, the largest carbon fibre sloop in the world, for some scheduled maintenance....
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23 April 2020
A BEAUTIFUL BALTIC IS BORN
The complex task of releasing the advanced composite hull shell of the Baltic 117 Custom from her split mould was completed recently at our Jakobstad facility. The video shows how the two halves of the one-off timber mould are carefully moved aside before the...
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