Baltic Yachts’ First Foil-Assisted Luxury Sailing Yacht Raven Is A Game Changer
Baltic’s decidedly sui generis 34-meter sailing superyacht is riveting from the very first glance. Meticulously pared down in terms of weight, thoroughly steeped in purposeful industrial chic, and technically superior in materials, systems, and design, Raven is the wild card. A gauntlet thrown down in the luxury sailing yacht game with the potential to change everything.
An assisted foiling yacht, Raven spreads her canting T-wings and lifts her beaked bow from the water only as much as required to reduce the lightship displacement of this phenom to its targeted weight of 55 tons. Peers, if they can even graciously manage to be called that, generally register between 75 and 100 tons. The stern continues playing with the waterline as Raven sails along on her leeward chine, the leeward foil providing a significant proportion of displacement.