seatec - Finnish marine technology review 1/2007 | Page 41

Baltic 152 saloon. Photo: Antonio Mannu Baltic 141 vip cabin. Baltic Yachts and weight calculations together with a naval architect. The company has also developed its own weight and centre of gravity control system, in order to ensure that its vessels are constructed in relation to their designed weight values. 130 people work within Baltic Yachts, and many of them have been with the yard from the very beginning and possess valuable boat building experience and skills. The organization is based on project management; for each boat being manufactured a responsible project group is allocated. In order to find out a yard’s real philosophy and the way in which it lives up to it, one must look in detail at the yard’s ideas and actions. Baltic Yachts is located in the village of Bosund on the west coast of Finland. The company possesses both the facilities and the organization to build yachts up to and over the 200 ft range. ■ seatec 2007 39