– February 4th 2025

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our major awards – Outstanding Exterior Design, Best Interior Design, Best Naval Architecture and Innovation Of The Year – were awarded to Baltic Yacth’s 111 Raven at the 2025 Boat International Design & Innovation Awards held in Kitzbül, Austria, winning every category in which she was eligible to enter.

“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.”

Fulfilling her owner’s brief to create a yacht that combines the speed of a cutting-edge racing yacht with the experience of a true superyacht, Raven’s massive lateral foil arms make a striking impression. Her innovative centre cockpit – the bird’s nest (see below) – puts guests at the heart of the sailing action while keeping them safely separate from the highly loaded lines and crew operations in the working aft cockpit.

Best Naval Architecture

Raven’s win in this category was based on her stability and comfort under sail as well as her unrivalled performance, which is achieved through further developments of America’s Cup foiling technology. The judges praised her technical advances and called her “a naval architecture marvel”.

Canting T foils produce lift, side force and dynamic righting moment when sailing fast. The T foil canting angle is adjusted for each point of sail, and the foils’ flap angle is adjusted to target the optimum heel angle. Her angle of heel rarely exceeds 10° even when Raven is fully powered up on a high-speed reach, so the comfort level for passengers on board increases significantly compared to a traditional monohull.

One of Raven’s most remarkable achievements is that she looks, feels and functions like a true superyacht – “She’s extremely fast but looks like a yacht,” said one judge, noting Raven’s creative use of finishes and flexible layout.

Raven has previously won the Judges’ Special Award at the World Superyacht Awards in 2024 with unanimous commendations from the judging panel for her extreme innovation and for pushing the boundaries of yacht design, construction and performance.

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The judges praised her technical advances and called her

“a naval architecture marvel”