Bootswerft Winkler
Welcome to Bootswerft Winkler. Located in northern Germany, we uphold a tradition that spans nearly 100 years. Starting as a small family business in 1928, we have evolved into a modern and visionary boat manufacturer, celebrating individuality, expertise, precision, and creativity every single day.
We take pride in our highly qualified team of 40 boat builders, carpenters, masters, technicians, apprentices, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, painters, locksmiths, sailmakers, cleaners, office clerks, and designers. We are all driven by a healthy ambition to think of everything.
Bootswerft Winkler offers a very broad manufacturing depth, enabling you to have your wishes fulfilled. Whether new construction, conversion, or repairs, let us know your ideas!
Our principles
TEAM
- A safe and health-conscious work environment
- A workplace where equality, diversity, and inclusion are embraced
- Continuous training on current regulations, guidelines, and changes in environmental and social legislation
- Professional development
- Clean workspaces
- Team building (sports activities, group outings)
- Opportunities for feedback to promote ideas for more sustainable practices
PRODUCTION
- Compliance with all relevant environmental regulations and continuous updates
- In-house planning with over 80% domestic partners and suppliers, and predominantly domestic manufacturing
- Our shipyard location offers excellent access via waterways (lock and bridge-free approach from the North Sea and Weser)
- Thoughtful material selection and conscious consumption (whenever possible, we use recycled materials, e.g., misprints from the cardboard industry as cover material, reusable instead of disposable products)
- A wash water collection system
- Effectively insulated halls built to passive house standards
- A modern ventilation system with 75% heat recovery
- Planned: Installation of solar panels on the hall roofs
- Promotion of technological advancement