Fjord presents its new web site. Fjord was founded in the early sixties by Alf Richard Bjerke in Arendal, who decided to enter boat building after a visit to the Hannover boat show. Originally founded as Fjord Plast, Bjorke gets the help of Finn B. Roer as business partner, and Jan Hermann Linge as designer, setting up a small shop which could build boats up to 24 feet in Arendal, debuting with the Fjordling 17 as designed by Linge in 1962 which is followed by the fifteen foot Gressvig dinghy on the same year. The Fjordling will be build in hundreds of units till 1970. By 1964 Fjord will move to a new location in Fevik, and in the end of the sixties it will buy Herwa, Selco, Trifoil, and Norcem's plastic boat businesses. After ten years in business Fjord is offering 72 models from four shipyards, and is the largest boat producer in Northern Europe. The business at Fjord is so good that Bjerke is planning for a 75 footer on the drawing board, abruptly cancelled with the 1973 oil crisis which will put the at the time largest Scandinavian boat producer in great difficulty. The 1973 oil crisis hits Fjord so hard that it is sold to Norcem, a Norwegian cement producer, which by the end seventies will close the three Arendal, Tromøy, Grimstad factories with only the one in Rjukan remaining open. In 1981, Fjord is sold to Bjørn Minde, Tor Egil Baardsen and Odd Simonsen. Minde eventually takes over as sole owner and merges Fjord Plast with Wiking Boats, giving the Fjord Boats name. In 1991 Fjord is sold again to Eivind Astrup, who will sell again to Inger Sande Brøvig in 1996. In March 2006, Hanse Yachts will buy 51% of the shares in Fjord, with the Norwegian boat builder becoming a total part of the Hanse Yachts Group in 2007, and moving production to Germany. The Fjord Hanse era will debut with a total different minimal design of the 40 Cruiser as designed by Patrick Banfield, although it will be the 40 Open a twelve meter walk around sports cruiser which starts the new successful of the new German owned Fjord. Today's Fjord line up features offers nine models, which start with the 38 Open and go up to the 53 XL flagship, with its latest model being the 41 XP and XL models with a 480 currently being in project stages. The new Fjord website takes you around with the following buttons: Motorboats, Fjord Legend, Magazine, Events, Dealers, Services, Contact Us, and Configure Now. Fjord is also on social media with links at the right bottom of the page taking you to its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin pages.
Production History;
Fjordling 17 1962-75
Fjord Diplomat 30 1967-78
32 Cabin 1969-75
24 Weekender 1969-82
27 Cruiser 1970-78
34/38 Flybridge 1971-72/73
21 DC/650 SE 1981-85
725 SE 1982-86
815 SSE 1983-89
880 AC 1984-87
880 CC 1984-87
870 AC 1985-
1001 AC 1985-
1001 CC 1985
1001 CB 1985-
39/1200 Solcio 1985-89
Dolphin 900 1987-97
Terne 28 1989-13
Terne 21 1995-12
Terne 24 1995-13
40 Cruiser 2007-13 Patrick Banfield design, Hanse Group ownership
40 Open 2008-19
36 Open 2010-19
36 MY Tender 2013-18
48 Open 2014-17
42 Open 2016-17
38 Xpress 2017-23 *36 Xpress project
52 Open 2018-20
44 Coupe 2018-
44 Open 2018-
38 Open 2019-23
41 XL/XP 2020-
53 XL 2021-
39 XL/XP 2023-
480 2024-
Fjordling 17 1962-70, Fjord's first model
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