Holland Jachtbouw

Holland Jachtbouw is a shipyard specialized in building large sailing yachts. It is located in the municipality of Zaandam in the Netherlands.
History.
The shipyard was established by Chris Gongriep (1946-2016) in 1990 as De Hemmes to build , a traditional wooden workboat type from Lemmer. The yard acquired naval architect André Hoek's newbuild management company Dutch Built in 1998 in order to transition to aluminium sailing yachts; Thereafter Hoek cooperated closely with Gongriep, producing the largest two-mast schooner in history, "Athos", in 2010. After completing a significant expansion of the shipyard's building shed, Gongriep committed suicide on December 9th, 2016, and the shipyard's brand new 12,000m² facilities were subsequently rented out to fellow Dutch yachtbuilder Royal Huisman.