Orkan
Yacht atelier since 1974
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One-off builds, no kit

A hull is
a decision.

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hulls built
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years in the same place
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master craftsmen in house

The shape is formed
against the water.

Every frame line goes through the towing tank before the first steel is cut. What does not hold there does not get built.

Forty metres of deck.
Not one centimetre off the shelf.

From here on
she is yours.

What makes a yacht expensive
is rarely the material.

One hall. One crew. One name on the contract.

Hull, superstructure, systems and interior all take shape under the same roof at ORKAN. No supplier pointing at another supplier, and no main contractor managing both. Whoever signs with us talks to the same people right up to handover.

Weld seam on the steel plating of a hull
14 months

Average build time from keel laying to sea trial. We take on four commissions a year, no more.

1974

Founded as a repair yard on the Lower Elbe. The first yacht of our own was launched in 1981 and is still sailing today.

No series

There is no catalogue. Every line is drawn for one owner and never sold again.

Four build slots a year. Two of them are already taken for 2027.

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Everything you will
touch later, somebody
has touched before.

Steel for the cold,
carbon for the speed.

Both are built in the same hall. Which of the two it becomes is decided by your cruising ground, not by our workload.

Teak is laid,
not installed.

Every seam runs parallel to the hull side. It costs two more weeks and you can still see it twenty years on.

What we build

Four commissions a year, and every one of them gets everything.

Design in house

We draw the lines plan, the general arrangement and the interior ourselves. You talk to the naval architect who later stands in the hall, not to a go-between.

Carbon hull in the yard hall

Hull in steel or carbon

Both in our own shop, depending on the cruising ground.

38 m

Largest length overall built so far. The smallest was 24 metres.

Care after handover

Two yard berths stay reserved for owners all year round. Anyone who has built with us gets a berth and a technician without an appointment.

Come and see what we are building right now.

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At some point she sits in the water
and is no longer ours.

Inside, the ship
ends and the
house begins.

No veneer.
No plastic.

Solid walnut, tanned leather, bronze. All from the same batch, so the colour holds across twelve rooms.

And in the evening
it is simply quiet.

What your length decides about the rest.

Pull the slider. The figures come from our previous builds and are no substitute for a quotation, but they show the order of magnitude you are thinking in.

32 m
24 m48 m
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Your figures will be different, of course. That is exactly what the visit is for.

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From here on, all that
counts is how she feels.

Steady in force
eight. By design.

And then you are
simply gone.

On board

What stays in the end are the rooms.

Four places that decide whether a ship is merely large or whether you want to live on it. We draw all four in house and build them in the same hall.

Sky lounge with a long table and an open front to the sea
Sky LoungeThe entire front opens up. In fine weather, inside and outside are one and the same space.
Foredeck lounge with pool
ForedeckThe quietest place on board, because nobody passes through.
Open tender garage in the hull side
Tender garageOpens to the side. The tender goes into the water without anyone setting foot on deck.
Yacht at night with the full deck lighting on
Light at nightEvery light dimmable on its own, down to two per cent.
More images The full set from the hall, the decks and the interior, all enlargeable.

Owners who came back a second time.

“For the second boat I did not bring a consultant along. In the hall you can tell straight away whether the people know what they are doing.”

Henning SturmfelsOwner, two builds

“We looked at seven yards. ORKAN was the only one where the naval architect turned up with oil on his hands.”

Léonie VasterlingOwner, 31 metres

“After eleven years, a gearbox failure off Bornholm. Two days later a yard technician was standing on the pontoon.”

Ruprecht AhlmannOwner since 2015

What owners want to know before the first visit.

Reckon on two to four months for design and contract, then twelve to eighteen months of build time, depending on length and fit-out level. We hand out at most four build slots a year, so depending on the schedule the start may have to wait.

Any time, without an appointment. Owners get a yard pass. Most come every few weeks, some every week, and we consider that a good part of the build.

Yes, if you already have someone. Our own team then takes on engineering and execution and coordinates directly with your office. Responsibility for the finished ship stays with us either way.

That depends on the cruising ground. For high latitudes and long passages we build steel, because it can be repaired where there is no yard. For the Mediterranean and anything built for speed, carbon is the better choice.

Two berths at our pontoon stay free for owners all year round. For winter storage, refit and damage you are not a new customer here, but somebody whose ship we built and whose drawings are still in the house.

Come into
the hall.

A yard visit takes half a day, costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Afterwards you will know whether we are the right people.

Request a visit You roughly know what you want and would like to see the hall. Four dates per half year, three of them still open. Straight to the enquiry Configure first You are still sorting things out. Length, hull, colour, interior, and then you see the order of magnitude and enquire from there. Seven decisions