Baltic Yachts co-founder Jan-Erik Nyfelt dies

Jan-Erik Nyfelt, known as “Janne” to his colleagues, passed away on January 28 2023.

Nyfelt was one of the five co-founders of the Finnish shipyard Baltic Yachts and remained a very active member of the firm until his retirement.

“Baltic Yachts has lost a person that contributed greatly to what Baltic Yachts is today,” says fellow founder Per-Göran ‘PG’ Johansson in a statement published on the Baltic Yachts website.

“[It is] a great loss for the company and for me personally the loss of a person, a friend, that I have held in extremely high regard, and that has been an enormous support for me through all my years in the yachting industry.

Nyfelt’s career as a boatbuilder started from a young age, working in his father’s small boatbuilding shop. In addition to his practical yacht building skills, he also wanted to learn more about design, calculations, making line drawings and the theoretical side of creating a boat. For some time, he worked for a local ship’s engineer and gained insight into the theoretical side of boatbuilding.

Johansson recalls that Nyfelt was involved in the start of Nautor as a boatbuilding specialist. “He was also one of the five people [who] started Baltic Yachts and was a very active member in the management and development of our company until his retirement,” he continues. “His legacy to the local boatbuilding industry is invaluable.

“Janne was a person with never-ending energy [and] always intensively involved in many things. [He was] very keen on developing new materials and methods: everything that could improve the product. Whatever he got himself involved in he was in with full energy.

“He was a respected member of our Baltic Yachts family and will be greatly missed.”

Jan-Erik Nyfelt (left) with fellow Baltic founder Per-Göran ‘PG’ Johansson

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