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First look: Baltic Café Racer

• September 3, 2021

Rupert Holmes takes a look at the recently launched Baltic Café Racer, a powerful and quick daysailer with green credentials

Baltic Yachts has been responsible for some of the world’s most iconic yachts of the past five years, including the 142ft Canova , which is fitted with DSS foils, the 175ft Pink Gin and the 130ft My Song . The Finnish yard’s latest creation the, Baltic Café Racer is a 68ft daysailer, and is no less spectacular as it’s a cutting edge design that looks to the future by using environmentally friendly solutions throughout.

The concept for the Baltic Café Racer is based on a very clear vision: the name stems from the pared down motorbikes of 1960s London that were optimised for a single task: conveying their riders impressively quickly from one venue to the next.

The result is a design that excels in many respects and stands out in an increasingly crowded market place.

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Baltic engaged Mallorca-based Javier Jaudenes as naval architect for the project. “The design develops best performance in mid-range winds of around 12-14 knots,” he told me.

“We wanted to have a powerful sail plan that will also deliver some excitement with gentle breezes.” When in race mode in stronger winds the boat will therefore benefit from having crew on the rail to develop its full potential.

The hull shape minimises wetted surface area at low angles of heel, with rounded sections and relatively low waterline beam aft. However it rapidly gains form stability as the boat heels.

Design Unlimited has created a choice of interior concepts, colour palettes and material choices

Jaudenes says the decision was made to incorporate twin rudders at an early stage to enable owners to enjoy power reaching to the full when daysailing.

A big effort has been made to minimise the environmental impact of this boat. Roughly 50% of the structural fibres are of flax, while auxiliary power is provided by twin 15kW Oceanvolt electric motors.

The ultra-sleek coachroof is covered in solar panels, designed into the styling of the deck from the outset to enhance the boat’s aesthetic appearance.

The flax fibres used in construction also help to improve insulation, which can reduce airconditioning power consumption by 30%. As a result there’s sufficient battery capacity to run the aircon all night in eco mode.

As befits this yacht, Baltic has sensibly kept weight out of the ends of the hull, yet there’s impressive accommodation volume below decks – enough for an owner to be able to stay on board for several nights in considerable comfort.

The layout is focussed on a generous full-beam saloon, plus a spacious and well appointed forward owner’s suite. There’s also a day head, a small double quarter cabin for guests (or crew) and a reasonable galley.

Launched in May 2021, the first Baltic Café Racer was undergoing initial sea trials in August 2021.

Baltic Café Racer specifications

LOA: 20.73m / 68ft 0in LWL: 20.73m / 68ft 0in Beam: 5.63m / 18ft 6in Draught: 4.00m / 13ft 1in Displacement: 22,800kg / 50,200lb Ballast: 8,200kg / 18,000lb Price: POA Builder: balticyachts.fi

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Baltic 68 café racer.

By Dieter Loibner , Mar 18, 2021

Baltic’s 68′ (20.73m) Café Racer, a high-performance daysailer designed by Javier Jaudenes, brims with interesting design decisions and lightweight construction that combines flax and carbon fibers.

If this Finnish builder of luxury yachts is any indication, composites made with natural fibers are inching closer to mainstream boatbuilding applications. Later this year, Baltic Yachts , operating 280 miles (450.6 km) south of the Arctic Circle, will launch its Baltic 68 Café Racer, a 68 ‘ LOA (20.73m) daysailer with a fresh approach to composite construction: A large portion of the hull material incorporates renewable fibers such as flax as reinforcements in an effort to reduce the boat’s carbon footprint. Flax’s excellent sound-deadening properties, Baltic says, also help reduce the use of insulation, thus saving space and weight. Other interesting details include an electric propulsion system and, quite possibly, a microturbine, not a diesel generator, to charge the electric-drive batteries while under way to extend the vessel’s motoring range.

While Baltic serves a high-end market with customized luxury sailing yachts, the adoption of renewable fibers in composite materials is not just a gimmick for a wealthy client. The Finns’ methodical approach could herald a switch for the leisure boatbuilding industry to incorporate more sustainable construction materials whose desirable properties like stiffness and lightness compare favorably to those of conventional fiberglass or carbon fiber but are easier to reuse and recycle. Renewability aside, flax also has an appealing look and feel and can be dyed and pigmented, offering interior designers near limitless color variations.

The Café Racer 68’s features an open and quite minimalist interior that uses flax rattan, light oak timbers, flax composites, custom wallpapers and modern textiles, which combine to create ‘unpretentious simplicity’ according to interior designer Jens Paulus.

Even though Baltic does not yet build entire hulls from flax like Green Boats in Germany does (see “ The Quest for Cleaner Composites ,” Professional BoatBuilder No. 188), it has used this natural fiber for interior panels and floorboards on the Baltic 130 (LOA 43m) My Song , launched in 2016. “The last two years we have been actively testing, and are using flax for nonstructural parts in the Baltic 146 Custom,” said Baltic spokeswoman Elisabet Holm. “We have now taken it even a step further, and flax makes up more than 50% of the Baltic 68 Café Racer’s hull reinforcement.”

Baltic Cafe Racer Uses Prepregs and Different Cores

Unlike the way Green Boats in Germany infuses parts, Baltic used special prepregs over different core materials, depending on loads and the corresponding strength requirements. Baltic’s composite materials purchasing manager, Thomas Lill, said the yard chose Gurit’s Sprint ST94 and ST95 systems, also suitable for E-glass, which come in biaxial, twills, and unidirectional weaves, with low to no crimp and twist and optimized for lightweight reinforcement. “Different fibers require a different amount of resin to become saturated,” Lill said about the mixed-fiber layup. “This isn’t a problem as long as you have a carefully calculated and correct resin amount in each and every one of the layers. Then none of the layers have a need to cannibalize resin from the other.”

A technician starts hull lamination with a surfacing film against the mold. The final laminate is vacuum bagged and cured at 85°C (185°F) heat.

For cores, Gurit Corecell was employed for the hull topsides and slamming areas, Baltek balsa in the aft hull bottom and bulkheads, and Armacell recycled PET foam for nonstructural interior panels. Cork, too, is part of the material mix, mainly to dampen sound and vibrations. How will all this help turn the Café Racer into valuable recyclate at the end of its useful life? “Balsa and cork could be used for energy production, releasing very few toxic gases during the process, since both are wood,” Lill explained. “The PET foam can be collected and recycled into new foam, for example.”

Once the yard figured out the properties and the behavior of flax-based composite materials, it had to decide whether the best application was to completely replace carbon fiber or to combine the two laminates. “Flax fiber is lighter than carbon but not as strong. It also needs more resin to fully wet out, and therefore the final weight is not always lighter,” Holm said. About specific structural/nonstructural applications in the Baltic 68 Café Racer project, she said, “The hull outer-skin laminate is a mix of flax and carbon fibers. In the solid-laminate bottom area of the hull [midships bottom], flax is used to bulk up the thickness. The 11 structural bulkheads are all using flax skins too and a balsa core. Regarding nonstructural applications, we are using flax mainly for interior parts, like floorboards.”

To create a lightweight, stiff structure, Baltic bonded 11 structural bulkheads made of flax skins and balsa core into the hull. The target weight for the 68′ hull is 1,557 kg (3,432 lbs).

Baltic is not ditching all other composites in favor of flax fibers, but it is making judicious calls on where to use each type of fiber depending on the loads and stresses the laminate must withstand. The company published a video showing how the BComp ampliTex and Sprint material is cut to size and laid over an outer skin of carbon, which, according to the company website, “still provides the best hull surface finish and prevents print-through of the reinforcement laminate.” Once these layers were properly positioned inside the mold, the Corecell core went in, and then the inner hull skin was laid on top. To meet the ambitious hull weight target of 1,557 kg (3,430 lbs), the inner layer is a Gurit Sprint carbon prepreg. “The number of layers varies depending on location [high-load area or not],” Lill explained, “but on average the outer skin [consists of] five layers and the inner skin of three layers. One of the benefits with the Sprint system is that you do not need to debulk nearly as much as with a traditional prepreg.”

With the separate laminates in place, the entire structure is vacuum-bagged to eliminate air pockets and heated to 85°C (185°F) for 16 hours, which causes the resin in the prepreg’s inner layer to evenly and thoroughly saturate the adjacent flax reinforcement.

The first Baltic 68 Café Racer will be launched in spring 2021. Its embrace of sustainability will be further supported by charging the lithium battery bank through hydrogeneration via twin freewheeling propellers or with a microturbine generator, which has yet to be specified. Microturbines are refrigerator-size gas turbines used for power generation. They evolved from turbochargers, aircraft auxiliary power units (APU), or small jet engines.

Asked about the strategic direction Baltic is pursuing with composite materials from renewable fibers, Holm was clear about the company’s goal: “To use more eco-friendly materials in general (fibers, resins, glues, etc.) without losing our identity of being ‘lighter, stiffer, faster.’” Now it also added “greener” to that tagline.

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Baltic Yachts has announced the sale of its fourth Baltic 68 Café Racer with the new yacht due to be delivered in early 2025The success of the Javier Jaudenes-designed, high performance day sailer began with Pink Gin Verde in 2021, so called because Baltic Yachts was prototyping new, sustainable building materials like flax for hull and deck reinforcement and cork in place of teak laid decks.Her looks and performance immediately attracted attention as did her electric ‘un-plug and play’ twin electric propulsion system. She’s also very easy and exciting to sail with a swept spreader Marstrom rig which does away with runners and backstays. Structured luff sail technology provides a genuine performance boost, and a cool, contemporary interior is ideal for comfortable week ending

Café Racer 02, the new Open Season launched last year, was more performance orientated, an all-carbon boat with a single rudder instead of two, a single lightweight, electric motor and a much-reduced overall displacement.

Both boats have been sailing together in the Mediterranean and look forward to being joined by hull number 3 and 4. Jaudenes’ ability to combine performance with a super-modern look and versatile cockpit ergonomics has attracted those looking for a really rewarding sailing experience, ease of use and more than a nod to sustainability.

Baltic 68 Café Racer 03 is currently in build in advanced carbon composites using foam and Nomex sandwich technology and will launch this summer. Electric propulsion, twin rudders, a Hall Spars rig and a suit of North Helix structured luff sails will be included in the inventory – her Arctic Blue livery is guaranteed to turn heads.

The owner of hull number four has opted for a conventional, diesel-driven propulsion system, a single rudder, a Hall Spars rig package and Doyle structured luff technology. Her owner wants a fun family day boat which is easy, safe and rewarding to sail.

“The appeal of the Café Racer concept is really capturing the imagination, because she delivers on so many levels,” said Baltic Yachts Executive Vice President Henry Hawkins. “There’s a real prospect of fleet racing as the order book grows and I can also reveal that’s there’s been more than a hint of interest in a bigger version.”

More information is available from Henry Hawkins and Sales Director Kenneth Nyfelt who will be visiting the Düsseldorf International Boat Show which runs from 20-28 January, 2024.

Baltic 68 Café Racer 04

Dimensions:

• LOA: 20.73 m
• Beam: 5.63 m
• Draft: 4.65 m
• Displacement: 20.6 tons (light craft)
• Ballast: 7.2 tons
• Naval architect: Javier Jaudenes

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The Baltic 68 Café Racer

Baltic Yachts are taking the lead on sustainable innovations for the marine sector, where there is a slumbering potential for the use of more ecologically responsible alternatives instead of the established glass and carbon fibres. The Finnish company is a leading maker of luxury yachts and constantly looking for new developments. The latest release, the Baltic 68 Café Racer is made with sustainability in focus and features ampliTex™ natural fibre composites for structural parts.

The Baltic 68 Café Racer is a 68-foot Day Sailer with attitude. It is a perfect example for a new generation of sustainable yachts and how natural fibres play a role in a new sailing experience.

The Baltic 68 Café Racer delivers thrilling, quick, and easy sailing thanks to its eco-friendly construction in combination with a range of impressive features. The un-plug and go electronic propulsion system in combination with an on-board hydrogenerator and solar panels allow this yacht to operate with zero emissions. 

Built with flax  

The majority of the hull is made of  ampliTex™  natural flax fibre reinforcements, rather than carbon- or glass fibres. Consequently, the environmental impact is dramatically reduced as flax fibres are a naturally grown, CO2 neutral raw material. At end of life, the natural fibre composites can be incinerated and used for heat recovery, without residual waste. Thanks to Bcomp’s ampliTex™ technology delivering superior sound deadening properties, the use of insulation can be limited, and weight further reduced. Furthermore, the fibres naturally have around 3 times higher vibration damping, making them attractive for boat building.  

Responsible material choices  

Not only the hull profits from the use of novel and eco-friendly materials. In the mindset of making the Baltic 68 Café Racer a paragon for a new era of yacht design, a beautiful and durable alternative deck material was used. The cork decking is a hard-wearing and especially sustainable solution, allowing Baltic Yachts to avoid the use of tropical hardwoods. 

Natural simplicity  throughout  

The selection of natural materials extends throughout the interior of the yacht. A mix of wicker, flax and paper cord produces a cool, contemporary ambience, while light oak timbers and flax fibre composites combine with modern textiles, to form an ‘unpretentious simplicity’ as Javier Jaudenes – famous naval architect and interior designer – expresses it.

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Greener Sailing: Baltic 68 Café Racer

Created as a daysailer and weekender - the baltic 68 café racer, made of flax and other sustainable features for greener yachting..

The Baltic 68 Café Racer appears with an excellent progressive and aggressive design. Moreover, is not only the design progressive but also the choice of materials. Baltic Yachts will use natural materials like flax, which can be very interesting. Some weeks ago, I sailed the small daysailer Flax 27 by Greenboats from Bremen, Germany. Alongside the exceptional performance of the boat, it is also the design with visible flax fibers (the “counterpart” of visible carbon fiber). Javier Jaudenes designed the 20m sailing yacht. He also draws the lines of the Baltic 108 WINWIN.

The designer comments:

“This is a yacht for owners and their friends who want their sailing exciting, easy, and enjoyable. When the mood takes them, the Café Racer is ready to GO! This is the essential modern weekender with a genuinely ‘green’ approach to construction and auxiliary power.“

Onboard energy

Two 15 kW electric engines by Oceanvolt supports port maneuvers and during low wind trips. To recharge the lithium battery, the yacht uses solar cells and a hydrodynamic generator. Furthermore, a microturbine serves as a range extender that can run on hydrogen or biofuels.

Baltic Yachts also focuses on the power consumption of the board systems:

“Our system mixes re-circulated, less humid air with fresh air to reduce the amount of power needed to maintain the desired onboard ‘climate.’ UV filters ensure the air is bacteria-free and solar panels can power the system in eco mode with no draw from the battery bank.”

Jens Paulus, a designer at Hermès and the naval architect of the yacht Javier Jaudenes, created a design that contains eco-materials like flax, linen, and leather.

Jens Paulus comments: “It’s a contemporary interior embracing the eco-spirit of the Café Racer. One of the main ideas behind the interior is to show as much as possible the shape of the hull and intensify that unique feeling of being inside a boat.”

Another design comes from Design Unlimited. They added some more colors

Mark Tucker from the studio annotates: “The Café Racer’s accommodation offers a comfortable and cosy place to relax after a day’s sailing. Our style options provide an appealing welcome and a great place to enjoy a good lunch after some excitement out on the water!”

A finished Baltic yacht with a related design is the Pink Gin

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

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Stunning Café Racer offers ease of use, style and sustainability

2 june 2021.

The first Baltic 68 Café Racer was launched on schedule last week when her super-stylish looks were revealed, her ease of use demonstrated and a new era of low carbon footprint yacht building unveiled

With her flax-reinforced hull, eco-electric propulsion, easy to handle sail plan and stunning interior design, the first Baltic 68 Café Racer offers a stylish, sustainable, performance sailing experience.

Following her recent launch, the yacht will undertake trials off Jakobstad before heading for the Mediterranean where she will be available for viewing and aim to take part in September’s Les Voiles de St Tropez.

Primarily, the Café Racer provides clients with pleasurable performance sailing through ease of handling and the latest rig and sail technology. Combined with a reduced carbon footprint, using naturally grown building materials, eco-electric propulsion and a hydrogeneration system, the Café Racer continues to lead Baltic into a new era of yacht building.

Naval architect Javier Jaudenes explains

This is a yacht for owners and their friends who want their sailing exciting, easy and enjoyable. When the mood takes them, the Café Racer is ready to GO! This is the essential modern weekender with a genuinely ‘green’ approach to construction and auxiliary power

Buying into a modern package

Baltic Yachts Executive Vice President, Henry Hawkins, said:

This is a yacht which tackles today’s challenges of sustainability and low carbon targets head on – she’s fun and easy to handle, offering a genuinely rewarding sailing experience. Baltic’s engineers and partners have incorporated a brilliant, naturally grown yacht building material in sustainable flax which perfectly complements the advanced composites expertise for which the company is renowned.

“We’re confident the Baltic 68 Café Racer Class offers a modern, attractive package which clients will be keen to buy into,” he said. “We are also exploring the possibility of a ‘green’ rating advantage to encourage the use of sustainable materials in yacht building,” he added.

Naturally grown boat building materials

Some 50% of the Café Racer’s hull and deck mouldings use Bcomp’s ampliTex TM naturally grown flax as a reinforcement. A SPRINT pre-preg lamination technique developed by Gurit is being used in this instance. Flax dramatically reduces the overall carbon footprint of the build and works well in conjunction with more conventional advanced composites, which are still used throughout the structure.

An extensive array of solar panels will be fitted to the yacht’s superstructure providing sufficient power to run onboard systems, including refrigeration. Sustainably grown Marinedeck cork replaces teak for the Café Racer’s decking material.

Rig and sail technology makes sailing easier

Making the Café Racer easy to sail is key to the new yacht. The Baltic 68 Café Racer employs some of the latest thinking in rig and sail technology to make handling easier. Thanks to a Marstrom Composite mast, with its swept back spreaders and wide shroud base, there are no runners or backstays to worry about.

Gybing and tacking, even with a square top main, require only sheet control with no runners, checkstays or running backstays to complicate life! But there is still a lot of performance on offer.

The way luff load is distributed using Doyle’s Structured Luff Technology plays a critical role in the overall rig and sailplan equation. The rig concept draws on existing technology based on the Bergstrom/Ridder, swept spreader designs from the 1980s. The spreader sweep provides the mast’s aft support that backstays would normally provide. Modern materials linked with Doyle Sails’ Structured Luff technology, Carbo-Link’s carbon standing rigging and the stiffness provided by the advanced composites used in the Café Racer’s hull, mean the advantages of the system can be fully realised without compromising performance.

Torbjörn Linderson, head of the mast department at Marstrom Composite AB in Sweden said:

A key objective is to extract performance from this sailing machine, but it must be easy, safe and enjoyable to achieve and not just for the fully professional sailor.

The use of Doyle Structured Luff Technology means that the sails themselves are designed with reinforcement in the luff area which spreads the load into the sail itself to avoid having to impose large headstay tension to reduce luff sag. It is ideally suited to the backstay-less Marstrom rig.

Doyle Sails’ Global Superyacht Sales Manager, Scott Zebny, said:

“For the Café Racer without any backstays, the real benefit from structured luff technology is the fact that we don’t have to pull on the headstay as hard in order to achieve the same amount of headstay sag.  All of our modelling together with Marstrom’s shows that we can achieve acceptable amounts of headstay sag with the way the mast has been engineered making tacking really very easy for day sailing”.

Doyle Sails International’s chief operating officer, Emma Hendy, said:

“Reducing luff sag in one of the biggest factors in allowing our sails to achieve more driving force. In some instances, we are reducing loads by up to 50%.”

When it comes to mainsail control, Doyle’s Structured Luff Technology provides so much load bearing ability in the sail itself that powerful luff Cunningham adjustment can be used to induce sail shape in lieu of backstays and runners.

The Doyle technology reduces weight, makes sails much more efficient and more user-friendly to trim.

Also key is Carbo-Link carbon fibre standing rigging, in this case CL ELLIPSE, which is aerodynamically profiled for an additional performance edge.

Torbjörn Linderson explained: “The modern composite hull structure of the Baltic 68 Café Racer has allowed us to do away with the reverse diagonal (stay) as well as slightly reducing spreader sweep from the typical 30° used by the B&R rig to 28°. A key here is stiff rigging, where the penalty in terms of weight and drag is greatly reduced using Carbo-Link’s CL ELLIPSE rigging, packing stiffness into a small and aerodynamic format.”

All electric Café Racer

Under power the Café Racer is driven by twin 15kW Oceanvolt electric motors with saildrive-style legs. While sailing, the free-wheeling propellers can, if selected, drive the motors as generators, which in turn charge the Lithium battery banks. The previously mentioned solar panels add to the charging capability and there’s also a range extender using micro-turbine technology which will eventually be powered by biofuels or hydrogen. So, it’s a genuine good-bye to the internal combustion engine.

Stunning interior styling

If the Baltic 68 Café Racer’s external looks excite you then her interior styling options will blow you away!

Jens Paulus and naval architect Javier Jaudenes offer a contemporary style using a range of eco-materials like flax, linen and leather. “ It’s a contemporary interior embracing the eco-spirit of the Café Racer. One of the main ideas behind the interior is to show as much as possible the shape of the hull and intensify that unique feeling of being inside a boat,” said Jens.

Alternatively, Design Unlimited has chosen to capitalise on both the yacht’s eco-credentials and Café Racer-with-attitude approach with an impressive choice of colour palettes, material choices and concepts. Mark Tucker from DU said:

“The Café Racer’s accommodation offers a comfortable and cosy place to relax after a day’s sailing. Our style options provide an appealing welcome and a great place to enjoy a good lunch after some excitement out on the water!”

The client for the first Café Racer has chosen a fresh look (below), using fabric and light timber bulkhead finishes, light oak flooring and leather handrail detailing, again by Design Unlimited.

For performance and weight saving, the ends of the yacht are virtually empty with the main saloon forming the focal point of the accommodation and a large owner’s double cabin located just forward. An additional double berth is located to starboard, aft of the companionway.

Following trials in Finland, the first Café Racer will head for the Mediterranean where she will be attending events in Sardinia and the Cote d’Azur. Details of plans to be at the Cannes Yachting Festival and the Monaco Yacht Show will be published at a later date when COVID-19 restrictions are eased.

Key features

• Gets you sailing quickly and easily
• Stunning interior options
• Hull made using naturally grown flax and carbon
• Twin electric propulsion motors
• Hydrogeneration
• Micro-turbine range extender
• Eco air-con
• Marstrom rig with no runners or backstays
• Doyle Structured Sail Technology reduces rig loads
• Carbo-Link aerodynamic carbon rigging
• Press-button sail handling
• Unplug-and-go lithium battery power
• Twin rudders for control
• Fixed keel for simplicity
• Naval architecture by Javier Jaudenes
• Interior styling options by Javier Jaudenes/ Jens Paulus combination and Design Unlimited

DIMENSIONS:

LOA 20.73 m (22.66m with bowsprit)

LWL 20.73 m

BEAM 5.63 m

DRAFT 4.00 m

DISPLACEMENT: 22,800 kg

BALLAST: 8.200 kg

The Baltic 68 Café Racer was transported to our waterfront facilities and launched successfully end of May.

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