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The Art & Science of Design

Baltic Yacht Design

Since the beginning, almost thirty years ago, we have striven to keep ourselves among the most progressive yacht builders in the world. In order to create superior yachts with regard to quality, comfort and speed, we chose to base our models on light-to-medium displacement designs. Every Baltic made was engineered for exhilarating performance and lasting value. Whether out for an afternoon sail, a distance race, or a circumnavigation, every Baltic is made to "Go for it."

Throughout our history we have enjoyed working closely with many of the best naval architects, interior designers, structural engineers, project managers, etc., and we appreciate their confidence in our company a great deal. The designers base is very wide, as every yacht we build today is individual and highly customized. Many of them are so called "One Off" yachts.

The in-house design teams have also grown in importance. R &J Design is our main supplier of design and engineering work focusing on deck and interior layouts, as well as styling. They also provide most of the workshop drawings. On the custom projects we work with a variety of interior styles. Today we are building interiors in "Baltic style", plus covering a styling spectra from totally modern—to classic.

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Flink Engineering, on the other hand, has rigid knowledge and experience in naval electric design and engineering. Today this in-house team supplies electrical plans for the most elaborate control and navigation systems that we build into our yachts.

One of the most rewarding elements in our design activities, is the fact that we have the opportunity and privilege to work together with our clients creating the yachts.

As a prominent yard we have to live up to our designer's expectations in order to keep us in the forefront of the industry. When initializing a new yacht project, we first carry out performance and weight calculations together with the naval architect. After doing that, we choose an appropriate technology level and subsequently fine tune the design and the weights. This is materialized by an iterating process that we have developed at our yard.

We have also developed our own weight and canter of gravity control system in order to ensure that we end up with a construction that corresponds to the designed weight values. This system provides the designer accurate weight figures that are based on our yard's unique ways of doing things. Our capability to complete construction calculations and to control outcomes provides valuable input to the projects, hence improving the end result.