CUSTOM DIVISION

Baltic Yachts have, since the start of the company in 1973, built custom yachts in sizes ranging from 38 to 100 FT L.O.A. Custom yachts were in the beginning a fairly small part of the business but nevertheless an important part of the company's activities. The custom division gave not only a small addition to the business but more importantly, increased the company's technical knowledge and possibilities to develop new methods and materials in a way that would not have been possible with only standard model production. The custom yachts also gave us the possibilities to work together with owners, designers, consultants, etc. that we perhaps otherwise would not have worked with, hence providing us with additional input and challenges. In other words, the Custom Division has been a main factor in the technical development process of our company.

The Custom Division has played an important role in the fact that our company has been on the frontier of development when it comes to sandwich construction, vacuum bagged Epoxy laminates, use of high quality fibers (Carbon, Aramide, S-glass etc) and use of pre-preg laminates cured at high temperature, etc.

The Custom yachts built spans over sizes from 38 to 100 FT and also from utmost extreme racing constructions to the most comfortable high performance cruising yachts.

Some of the earlier custom projects that we have built:

42 FT racing sloop 42 FT racing sloop 42 FT racing sloop 45 FT racer/cruiser 80 FT Maxi Racer 63 FT racer/cruiser 63 FT racer/cruiser 38 FT racing sloop 40 FT racing sloop 43 FT racing sloop 44 FT cruising sloop 75 FT pilot house performance cruiser 83 FT Performance cruiser 81 FT Maxi Racer 50 FT IMS racer

1975 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 Kevlar/S-glass/Epoxy 1983 Kevlar/S-glass/Epoxy 1983 Kevlar/S-glass/Epoxy 1985 Kevlar/S-glass/Vinyelster 1985 Kevlar/Epoxy 1986 S-glas/sandwich/Vinylester 1985 1987 1989 Carbon/Kevlar/Nomex/Epoxy 1991 Carbon/Kevlar/Nomex/Epoxy

The above represents some of the earlier custom projects, all of them high-tech for their time, all using sandwich construction, high-tech fibers and high grade resins with the more extreme ones using vacuum bagging laminating methods.

Lately the custom side of the business has increased and become the major part of our turnover. On the links on this page you can find basic information on some of the more recent projects plus projects presently under construction.