"FIRST LIGHT" has been professionally maintained and has enjoyed extensive refits over the past several years. Most recent upgrades are carbon fiber mast, pocket boom and rudder. Turn key condition. Shallow draft wing keel - Ready for the Caribbean or anywhere else. "FIRST LIGHT" is a truly fast and comfortable passage maker.
FIRST LIGHT is hull#9 and as such, the last of the popular Baltic 55’s built. While from 1989, she is a unique yacht in several ways and has a number of features that are usually found in yachts of much newer vintage. Some of these unique features are:
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- Carbon fiber “canoe” boom
- Carbon fiber rudder redesigned to provide 16% improvement in effort needed
- Higher horsepower diesel engine with low engine hours
- Wing keel with only 7’1” (2.18m) draft
- Hydraulic Reckmann roller furler for the Genoa driven by a Lewmar Commander power pack which has spare ports
- Powered primary, main halyard and mainsheet winches
- VarTech touch screen at helm, KVH FB-150 broadband with telephone combined with a new Dell computer are some of the exciting items in the electronics department
- A high quality and quite complete sail inventory of recent vintage
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