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This Sleek New 108-Foot Hybrid Cafe Racer Aims to Bring Sustainable Luxury to the Water

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Baltic Yachts has scored a hat trick with its just-announced 68 Café Racer. The 68-ft. short-handed, day-sailer embraces sustainability, offers breakthrough technologies, and is entering semi-series production with the first boat scheduled for delivery in 2021.

The Baltic 68 is designed by Javier Jaudenes, best known for Baltic’s 108-foot WinWin , and takes its inspiration from the Café Racer era of the 1960s. The brief was to get owners on the water fast, and in style, while minimizing emissions has also been a key goal for the Finnish shipyard.

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The 68’s low-emissions powerplant, featuring a 30-kW electric engine, has the ability to hydro-generate via a free-wheeling propeller while sailing. That is just one of the yacht’s many eco-friendly features, which have been developed following customer feedback.

“We have received requests for solar panels, hybrid drives and hydro-regeneration electric motors, as well as linen materials incorporated into interior pieces like floorboards and ceiling panels,” Henry Hawkings, Baltic’s executive vice president, told Robb Report .

The Finnish yard focused on using sustainable materials across the interior, including flax composites, wicker, paper cord and light-oak timbers.  Baltic Yachts

Baltic has been thorough about building sustainability into the Café Racer. All decking is made from Lignia Yacht’s eco-friendly, durable pine instead of traditional teak, and more than 50 percent of the yacht’s hull structure is reinforced using Bcomp ampliTex flax, a naturally grown flax. This provides excellent soundproofing and saves space, compared to traditional insulation. Light oak timbers, flax composites, wicker and paper cord also feature in the interior.

Reducing overall energy consumption through more efficient battery technology has also been on owners’ wish lists, adds Hawkings. “Much like a hybrid car, the Baltic 68 Café Racer comes with a range extender that can be used to charge the Lithium ion battery bank as a ‘get you home’ supplement to battery capacity,” he says. “The range extender uses highly efficient micro-turbine technology, which has the ability to run on hydrogen.”

The only question mark over the use of hydrogen fuel is its availability in marinas and ports.

Designer Javier Jaudenes maximized the available  interior space on the 68-ft. hull, while also making it easy to sail with a small crew.  Baltic Yachts

Air-conditioning units are one of the most energy-demanding elements on a yacht’s hotel load, but Baltic has mitigated this by mixing recirculated air with fresh air to reduce the amount of power. Filters also ensure air is bacteria-free. Solar panels, with an estimated 1-kW of charging capacity, can be used to power the system in Eco Mode, relieving the load on the battery bank.

“The overall concept of the Baltic 68 Café Racer is to be straightforward and easy to use, with simple controls and ease of sail handling,” says Hawkings. “We are in discussions with several potential clients who appreciate the environmental approach of the project, the day sailer concept, the performance potential and the overall look of the boat.”

The first hull will start this spring, with delivery expected for summer 2021.

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Baltic 68 Café Racer: Easy Rider with a Green Attitude

Baltic Yachts 68 - 20m Café Racer

Sleek, simple to sail, and sustainably innovative without compromise, Baltic’s 68 Café Racer Pink Gin Verde is the optimum plug-and-play, ready to go, smart choice. A daysailor by design, she smoothly extends to long weekends with onboard energy and posh comfort to spare.

Launched in May of 2021, followed by successful sea trials in August, Pink Gin Verde recently displayed her inviting attributes at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in September in Porto Cervo, earning enthusiastic raves.

Naval Architect Javier Jaudenes, in the spotlight for the Baltic 108 WinWin sailing yacht of the year in 2015 and St. Barth Bucket race winner, designed Pink Gin Verde to parallel the popular pared-back 1960s motorbikes that shared café racer distinction. The café racer individuals were known for their quick jaunts between cafes as well as for owning a rock and roll subculture attitude that earned them a global style all their own. Jaudenes is also credited with Pink Gin Verde’s exterior design and worked in tandem with Jens Paulus, Hermès bespoke objects designer, on interiors.

By the Numbers

PGV stretches to 20.73 meters LOA, reaching with her reverse bow to lengthen the waterline. She has a beam of 5.63 meters, a draft of 4 meters, a displacement of 22.8 tonnes and a ballast of 8.2 tonnes.

Powered by a pair of low-emission, low maintenance 15kW Oceanvolt engines, that arrangement ensures Pink Gin Verde sails along with the wind, as well as without it. A freewheeling, controllable-pitch propeller charges the lithium battery bank while sailing, via solar cells and a hydrodynamic generator. Additionally, a microturbine range extender adds to the joy of sailing, and at some point, will be running on hydrogen or biofuels. The system is designed to perform at its best between 12 and 14 kts, making it a worthy craft for both racing and cruising.

Pink Gin Verde is fitted with Doyle Sails that are designed to be easily managed by a short-handed crew. All sails are made with Doyle Sails’ Black Stratis 1100, which is lighter and easier to handle than most. Sporting a square-top mainsail, the plan pairs it with a Structured Luff jib and genoa staysail, cableless A3, and cableless upwind jo.

The technology reduces sag of the middle forestay by a meter, enabling wider sailing angles and ensuring reliable furling from either top or bottom. Since the fiber is laid in accordance with the load path, 50 percent of the luff loads are carried in the sail itself, reducing the load from an average of 12 tons to 9 tons. The result is improved performance with less weight and an easy, safe, enjoyable experience that very quickly transitions from the slip to sea for active sailing.

Eco-Spirited Materials with Environmental Advantages

An alternative to teak, Pink Gin Verde’s deck is built with a sustainable, durable cork material from Marinedeck. A high-performance composite with the appearance of teak, it is weather tight, highly fire-resistant, long-wearing, easy to maintain, cool to the touch, stain-repellant, and has earned high noise and thermal insulating praise in its 30 years of use.

These non-slip decks, harvested in Portugal by companies in agreement with the Forest Stewardship Council, are additive in nature. Rather than the subtractive process of measuring and cutting teak, Marinedeck cork decking is built to exact measurements, can be fabricated on board and installed from templates, reducing materials and installation costs. Aside from Forest Stewardship Council certified wood, it is the only product 100 percent certified for marine decking.

The hull is laminated with a bespoke flax fabric from Swiss firm Bcomp. The flax is grown and harvested with little or no herbicides or fertilizers, making it less harmful to the environment. Two plies of ampliTex™ SPRINT flax fabric, one woven and one multiaxial, sandwich each side of an interior layer of pre-catalyzed resin, contributing more than 50 percent of the hull’s reinforcement.

This sustainably-driven sandwich enjoys a remarkably low void content in addition to reducing man-hours required to lay in the mold. Already proven in the marine industry, flax is known to absorb vibration and blanket noise while saving space and reducing weight. AmpliTex is also used in the keel area for strength. A versatile fiber, flax can be pigmented and is beautiful in both structural and aesthetic uses.

Recycled plastic bottles find their way into the non-structural panel cores with Armacell polyethylene foam. Corecell and balsa core are used in the hull laminate and bulkheads, respectively. The sleek curves of the rooftop solar panels produce 1.5 kW even while moored, managing to look both beautiful and functional on this stunning yacht profile. Pink Gin Verde’s systems incorporate lower humidity recirculated air in combination with fresh air to reduce power use directed toward air conditioning. Overall, reduction of power usage has been demonstrated to be up to 30 percent. The solar panels produce enough power to run onboard systems and refrigeration in Eco-mode, lightening the load on the battery bank. UV filters are thoughtfully placed to maintain bacteria-free air.

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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.

Baltic Yachts Oy Ab Ltd, Alholmintie 78, 68600 Pietarsaari, Finland, tel. + 358 6 781 9200, .

Gurit (USA) Inc., 115 Broadcommon Rd., Bristol, RI 02809 USA, tel. 401–396–5008.

BComp, Passage du Cardinal 1, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland, tel. +41 (0)26 558 84 02.

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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

Main Specifications of the Baltic 68 Café Racer

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NEW BALTIC 68 CAFÉ RACER – OPEN SEASON

10 june 2022.

OPTIMISED FOR RACE COURSE

Baltic Yachts has started construction of the second Baltic 68 Café Racer which will be optimised for racing.

Commissioned by an experienced owner who is familiar with the Mediterranean regatta circuit, the Javier Jaudenes-designed yacht will have a deeper draft at 4.7m, a higher righting moment, a single rudder and one electric propulsion unit instead of the two seen on the first yacht.

Like Pink Gin Verde, she will be a ‘un-plug and play’, all-electric boat in terms of propulsion and her winch package, with her free-wheeling propeller able to charge her lithium-ion battery bank while sailing.

With her Marstrom swept spreader rig, the new Café Racer will be able to race with no runners or backstays up to a wind speed limit of about 30 knots true as Baltic Yachts and the rig manufacturers continue to refine this easy-to-use, lightweight option. The new yacht will again make use of structured luff technology within its sail wardrobe.

With her hull and deck built in pre-preg carbon and her bulkheads and interior in similar advanced composites, the new Baltic 68 Café Racer is essentially a 100% carbon version of hull number one with a resulting displacement of around 20.6 tons.

Baltic Yachts EVP Henry Hawkins said:

The first 68 was a hugely successful exercise in developing new, sustainable building materials, examining electric drives, hydrogeneration, micro-turbine range extenders and an easy-to-use rig, hull number two will be even more high performance orientated enabling the yacht’s full racing potential to be realised.

The new yacht will be fitted with an 18kW Fischer Panda diesel range extender which can be used to boost the lithium battery bank, although there’s likely to be sufficient charge for a full day’s sailing. She will also have solar panels fitted to the superstructure and cork decks, which have proved to be extremely successful on the first 68.

With construction well underway, the new Café Racer is scheduled to launch in Spring 2023 and, in a first for Baltic Yachts, may be shipped to Palma de Mallorca for commissioning by the company’s growing Service and Refit operation. The new yacht will be based in Palma from where she will conduct her racing programme.

She will be one of three Baltic Yachts’ launchings in 2023, including the Baltic 110 and high-performance Baltic 111. They will feature in the company’s 50th anniversary celebrations which will run throughout 2023 and culminate in a spectacular Baltic Yachts’ Rendezvous event in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia in September.

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Baltic Yachts, new 68 Café Racer officially launched

The first Baltic 68 Café Racer was launched on schedule last week. 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.

A “modern weekender with a genuinely green approach” , as described by naval architect Javier Jaudenes: the new Café Racer by Baltic Yachts prioritized performance and ease of handling through the latest rig and sail technology.

Naturally grown boat building materials

Approximately 50% of the Café Racer’s hull and deck mouldings use Bcomp’s ampliTexTM naturally grown flax as a reinforcement. In this case, Baltic employed a SPRINT pre-preg lamination technique developed by Gurit. Flax reduces the overall carbon footprint of the build and works well in conjunction with more conventional advanced composites, used throughout the structure.

Solar panels on the yacht’s superstructure will provide 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

The Baltic 68 Café Racer employs a Marstrom Composite mast , with its sweptback 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. However, performance is not compromised.

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.

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.

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.

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

All-electric Café Racer

The Café Racer is equipped twin 15kW Oceanvolt electric motors with saildrive-style legs. While sailing, the freewheeling propellers can, if selected, drive the motors as generators, which in turn charge the Lithium battery banks. The solar panels add to the charging capability and there is a range extender using micro-turbine technology, which will eventually be powered by biofuels or hydrogen. No need for an internal combustion engine.

Interior styling

Jens Paulus and naval architect Javier Jaudenes offer a contemporary style using a range of eco-materials like flax, linen and leather.

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.

The client for the first Café Racer has chosen 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 later.

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

(Baltic Yachts, new 68 Café Racer officially launched – Barchemagazine.com – June 2021)

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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
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Hi guys, I saw a 68 California Special for sale today for $5000. The guy only has 1 pic up and it doesn't look bad, and haven't gotten any extra pics from him yet. Question is, is that a good price for a CS? I'm 15 and lookin to buy my first car and this seems like a great deal( really want a fastback but they're a bit too expensive ). And is $5000 a fare price for a CS special even if it needs complete restoration?(which it doesn't just want to know if CS mustangs are worth that) Thanks! -Sergio  

I'd love to see the photo. Can you post it? Besides "too bad," how would you describe the car? Paint, interior, body, rust, engine, etc? 5 grand could be a really great price for a numbers matching '68 CS. They're cool cars! IMHO, anyway.  

Yeah post a pic. If car is in fair condition it would be worth it, Make sure its not a clone or you might be paying too much depending on condition  

Do not purchase the car unless you get a Marti report since its the ONLY way to verify that its a true California Special  

there are more now than when they were new.  

I like the 1968 GT/CS models due to their relative rarity. Of the 4,000+/- that were produced that year, estimates are around 1,200 survivors. If the one you're looking at is verified as a CS, and it's in decent condition, $5K is a very good price. Send me the VIN of the car, and I'll check my copy of the CS registry for its number. As in ANY classic Mustang, check for rust in the cowls, floorpans, torque boxes, frame rails, and body. Neil Hoppe  

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Wasn't the CS available with any engine, including the I6? Might check that too. Frank  

Yes, it was. MMonthly did a feature on a 6 cylinder GT/CS. And, in the High Country ones, there was at least one 428.  

There used to be an unrestored red X-code GT/CS at cruises around here. Couldn't have been many of them.  

Probably as rare as X code cvts. Remember one of them, a yellow one.  

75 X code CS/GT's. All automatics. (Statistic Courtesy of Marti Autoworks and copyrighted)  

5k is a good price for an authentic CS. But as everyone already stated, get a Marti and do your homework. Good Luck.  

I LOVE the 68 GT/CS's. I would really like to convert my 68 coupe to look exactly like quicknick's. Good luck with your purchase, and keep us updated.  

I'd say 5k is a good price for a solid, complete and legit CS in need of a restoration. All the more so if it's a big block. Looking forward to seeing some pics, if you get it.  

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