A super-cruiser due to her anticipated high performance in races and her global travel itinerary, a special project in build in Finland is making her owners even more excited. Their Baltic 110 Custom sloop is just several weeks from splashing.
These photos provide the first good glimpses of what’s in store, too. When Baltic Yachts revealed the yacht was coming in 2023, it only released a hint of her profile. By contrast, her deck is now in place, and her hull paint is shining brightly beneath the molded-in bowsprit. She has an entirely carbon fiber superstructure, a telescopic keel, and a well-equipped sailplan—“generous,” to quote her naval architect, Malcolm McKeon. Specifically, her Southern Spars rig is joined by several backstays, runners, and deflectors for the variety of sailing modes she’ll undertake. Code sails? Check. Asymmetric sails? Check. Headsails? Check. She’ll have a pinhead main when cruising and a square-top sail when vying for bragging rights in regattas. As you might imagine, her primary owner has strong experience in racing large yachts.
With an LOA of 109’9” (33.5 meters) and a beam of 24’9” (7.6 meters), the Baltic 110 Custom sloop shows off some notable styling features. Firstly, “The exterior design is new, contemporary, and maximizes the use of glass in the superstructure,” McKeon says. Secondly, the sailing superyacht has a beach area. A teak-laid, fold-out platform has swim ladders and a handy shower. The family will use it for swimming, diving, boarding the tender, and even retrieving the tender, which stows inside aft. This area particularly shows off a signature McKeon look, a “roll-top” teak transom (akin to the looks of a roll-top desk). Between the abundance of wood and the rounded shape, it tempers what can sometimes be an angular feature on yachts.
Interestingly, Baltic says it’s paying homage to McKeon’s teak roll-top design by replicating the pattern on the deckhouse forward of the steering stations. The design will appear in the guest cockpit, too. (That cockpit, by the way, will transform from a conversation area to a dining area and to a sunning area when wanted.) All the while, the shipyard readily reveals the complicated shapes have challenged its woodworkers.
Something the owners are also quite proud of, the Baltic 110 Custom sloop has an electric propulsion system. An electric motor will drive a folding propeller, instead of the yacht using a hydraulic controllable-pitch prop. The freewheeling prop (under sail) and two gensets will create hydrogeneration to charge her lithium-ion batteries. The owners are also researching solar panels to charge them. And, a heat-recovery system will capture waste heat from the air conditioning to power hot water.
All the while, the Swedish designer Andreas Martin-Löf says he’s creating an interior with abundant walnut and an overall “warm minimalism” decor. He’s incorporating the carbon fiber structure of the yacht, too, further applying rice paper and walnut as corner lighting in staterooms.
Following delivery next summer, the Baltic 110 Custom sloop sets sail for Norway. She’ll head onward for the winter to the Caribbean and then the Pacific.
Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter martinlof.se
Baltic Yachts balticyachts.fi
Malcolm McKeon Yacht Design malcolmmckeonyachtdesign.com
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