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Polish yachts on the seven seas

The Yantar Yachts company, with its headquarters in Gdańsk Shipyard (the cradle of the Solidarity movement), builds luxury motor boats using state-of-the-art material and technologies. Yantar yachts amazingly reconcile Australian design, German steel, American engines, Swedish drives, Japanese navigation electronics and Polish workmanship.

This April, the company scheduled to launch the Yantar Queen, a 12-metre-long motor yacht which is able to carry up to six passengers. This launch is quite meaningful: the yacht is to be treated as a prototype for testing the technologies applied in the construction process of the vessel.

Still, the flagship product of the company is going to be the Yantar Prince yacht which measures 26 meters in length and has three decks and eight cabins. To operate it, there must be eight crew members and a captain.

The two aforementioned yachts differ considerably from their counterparts manufactured by other companies. Most importantly, the Yantar yachts have steel hulls to increase security while sailing in fjords or over coral reefs. In addition, these vessels are also more economical since they are covered by a 25-year warranty as a result of using excellent technologies and material. A case in point, students of Gdańsk Fine Arts Academy have been asked to design the superstructure for Prince, and out of four shortlisted designs, one has been chosen as a basis for the working design.

Quite obviously, luxury costs. While Queen is going to cost EUR 380,000, Prince’s price will be several times higher. And, finally, as for the official requirements, the Yantar boats will be certified by the following authoritative bodies: the American Bureau of Shipping, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, and the Polish Register of Shipping.

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