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Baltic Workboats
Test Ride
ALL-WEATHER LIF
When Captain Jim Weber needed to replace his 22-year- old 46-ft. Fiberglass crew and supply boat – a boat that is condition critical to supplying people and supplies to
Gardiner’s Island off of the Hamptons in New York – he settled on a pilot boat style boat and admittedly wanted to ’Buy American.’ But in searching across builders for more than a year, he found that price, delivery time and the fact that he wanted to build a ’one-off’ instead of a fleet took many of the builders out of the mix; some wouldn’t even discuss the project. He turned to Baltic Workboats, based in
Estonia with aspirations to build more business in the U.S.
By Greg Trauthwein 46 | MN November 2025
