A Clean Sweep: Baltic 111 Raven Recognised as the Pinnacle of Yacht Design

The 34-metre foil-assisted Baltic 111 Raven has won four separate awards at the Boat International Design & Innovation Awards. At the awards ceremony in Kitzbühl, Austria on Sunday 2 February she won nearly all the awards for sailing yachts, winning every category in which she was eligible to enter.

The clean sweep of four major awards – Outstanding Exterior Design, Best Interior Design, Best Naval Architecture and Innovation Of The Year – is a testament to Baltic Yachts’ outstanding achievement in delivering this highly ambitious, pioneering new build project on time and on weight exceeding all expectations.

It’s fair to say that Baltic Yachts is the only yacht builder capable of turning the vision of Raven’s owner into reality. In doing so, combining the extreme light displacement weight that is required for foiling performance with world class levels of luxury, Baltic Yachts has achieved something that many in the marine industry thought was practically impossible.

The Raven project played to Baltic Yachts’ core strengths – above all, its ability to take on major challenges with a curious mindset, and to efficiently coordinate a complex web of design loops involving the world’s leading experts in a wide range of technical disciplines.

Baltic’s in-house team played an important role in the design and engineering phases of the project as well as construction, for example adapting America’s Cup foils to function at superyacht scale. The yard’s entire workforce played a pivotal role in finding and implementing every possible gram of weight savings.

“This was a magnificent evening for Raven and her team,” says Baltic Yachts’ EVP Henry Hawkins. “She is a remarkable yacht, truly groundbreaking in so many ways, developed and built by a remarkable team.”

“Credit for Raven’s success is shared with our core partners in this project: Jarkko Jämsén, Garth Brewer and A2B Marine Projects, Botin Partners, PURE Design & Engineering, and the owner’s team led by Klabbe Nylöf. Working together we have written a new page in the development of yachting innovation.”