For a long time, the shipyard from Augustow, just under 200 kilometres east of Warsaw, concentrated on building motorboats, laminating hundreds of smaller cabin cruisers in series for brands such as Quicksilver. For sailors, the large company had previously only offered the Balt 17 and 23, formerly on the market as the Jeanneau Sun Fast - and always produced by Balt. Now there is new life in this area with the sister ships Balt 26 and 27.
While the hull and deck always remain the same, the two variants differ primarily in terms of the add-ons and fittings: There is a choice of three keel options, a built-in diesel and the option of replacing both bulkheads with frame bulkheads, which either provide privacy in the fore and aft compartments or make the ship appear more spacious. Doubly interesting: the yacht can be trailered with a large car without a special licence, but the version with a fixed keel also fulfils the requirements for off-shore sailing in accordance with CE and is a category B yacht.
For the test on the Havel south-west of Berlin, YACHT was able to test build numbers 1 to 3, all of which together showed that the shipyard knows how to produce high-quality work. You can read how the Balt fared in the test in an upcoming issue of YACHT.
