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Founded in Bremen in 1919
We are a craft business, not a sales operation. Whoever calls us speaks to someone who cuts sails — and who will remember your boat after the first appointment.
Beilken sails in action — Kieler Woche.
Workshop
In our hall, cutting, sewing and final inspection are under one roof. Plotters and design software do the calculating — the decision on how much depth a profile needs is still made by a person with wet sleeves.
This mix of modern production technology and handwork is why shipyards commission us for one-off builds: we deliver reproducibly and with documentation, without turning into a production line.
Location
Cutting, sewing and final inspection are under one roof in the loft at Dampfschiffsweg in Hamburg-Harburg — short distances from design to finished seam. The registered office and administration are in Schenefeld.
Cutting plotter in the production hall.
The corners are still made by hand.
Plotter, design software and sewing stations are in the same hall. There is no transport route between design and finished seam.
Part of the energy for production is generated on our own roof — an investment we started before the move.
Mainsails for yachts of more than 30 metres can only be checked laid out flat. That is what the hall was built for.
History
From the workshop in Bremen through forty years in Lemwerder and back — the milestones that have shaped the company.
1919
The company sews sails for Weser and coastal craft. Everyone learns the trade by hand, at a table.
1950s
With the rise of racing, the first class patterns are created — the beginning of our archive.
from 1970
The company grows and moves to Lemwerder on the Weser. For more than forty years, sails for dinghies, yachts and classics are built there.
2013
The dealer and service network reaches as far as Mallorca and Croatia. At the same time we invest in new machinery for production.
2015
Over the Christmas holidays the entire sail loft moves from Lemwerder to the Lloyd industrial park. Five new employees join in the same year.
Today
Production in Hamburg, service in Germany, the EU and Türkiye. From the Opti to the megayacht.
Projects
What is created in the loft is hard to sort into a single category. Five examples from recent years.
Classic racing yacht
A 6mR rig is an arithmetic problem with tight tolerances. The suit of sails was built from a measured plan — and raced in the same year.
Classic
For many classic designs the patterns are in our archive. Where they are missing, we reconstruct them from old sails, photographs and measurements.
Performance
A suit of sails for a yacht that has to be fast and look good at the same time. Both are possible — if profile and cloth match.
Large yacht
Three Jongert yachts of this size sail the world’s oceans with suits of sails from our hall. Projects like these run for months, with their own project management.
Bremen
The ship of the sailing association “Das Wappen von Bremen” — a project particularly close to our hearts.
In-house developments
What we have developed ourselves carries its own name — so that you know what is meant when you read the quote.
Test procedure
The sail test: profile, cloth and seams are inspected and documented. At the end there is a recommendation — repair, rework or build new.
Choice of material
The material matrix places shape stability, service life, weight and price side by side. Not the best cloth, but the right one.
Membrane
Our membrane range, since 2014 also available as an Endurance version for cruising yachts. Continuous fibres along the load lines.
Sun protection
Sun awnings for the cockpit, shaped and tensioned rather than simply laid over. From the same hall, with the same knowledge of cloth.
Design
Colour in the sail, not as a sticker but in the cut. A way to make a boat unmistakable.
Where to find us
Measuring and repairing works best where the boat lies. That is why there are service points and partners beyond Schenefeld.
Germany
The loft in Hamburg, plus service points in Flensburg and Berlin. We group appointments on the coast so that travel does not end up on your invoice.
Abroad
Mallorca, the Adriatic, Tittmoning and Salzburg — grown out of customer demand, not out of a franchise concept.
On site
At Whitsun we are on site with our repair service, together with our representative from the Elbe — in the boat hall of WSC Helgoland.
The sail loft as a meeting place
Chairs are set up between the sewing stations. Sailors talk about their voyages — and you do not have to be one yourself to listen.
Lecture series
Boris Herrmann on the Jules Verne Trophy, Mareike Guhr on her voyages around the globe, Olympic competitor Paul Kohlhoff on Rio and the America’s Cup, Sönke Roever on 1,200 Saturdays on board.
Attitude
The series is organised together with the sailing association “Das Wappen von Bremen”. Admission stays low, and donations go to the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) and to youth work.
Attitude
If a repair makes more economic sense than a new sail, we recommend the repair — even though we earn more on a new build.
Measuring, design and trim are in one pair of hands. You explain your boat once, not three times.
We promise what we can keep. If it gets tight, you will hear it from us before you have to ask.
