- Founded
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- Headquarters
- It Butlan 16, 8621 DV Heeg, The Netherlands
- Shipyard location
- Heeg and Lemmer, Friesland, The Netherlands
- Official website
- https://www.wajer.com/
Brand Overview
Dutch family builder of luxury dayboats and weekenders from Friesland — nine Volvo Penta IPS models from the 11.8-metre Wajer 38 to the 23.5-metre Wajer 77, designed, built, sold and serviced in-house by more than 350 people, with owner hubs from Amsterdam to Miami.
Overview written fromwajer.comread 9/18/2026
YachtCodex Analysis
AI-generatedAn independent reading of this builder written by AI. Unlike the specifications and descriptions elsewhere on this page, it is interpretation rather than a sourced fact — treat it as a starting point, not a citation.
What this builder is
Wajer began with the Captain's Launch, a classic Dutch sloop that Dorus Wajer sketched at his kitchen table in Loosdrecht around 1990 and turned into a business; in two generations the family firm grew from a local launch builder into a global name, and since 2019 his son Dries Wajer has run the company, with Dorus in an advisory role. Wajer Yachts B.V. is headquartered at It Butlan 16 in Heeg, Friesland, with yards at Heeg and Lemmer (Wajer Super Yachts) and an Amsterdam office at Zeeburgerkade; a team of more than 350 designs, builds in epoxy, sells and services the boats entirely in-house. The range is four hulls in nine versions — the 38 and 38 S, the 44, 44 HT and 44 S, the 55, 55 HT and 55 S, and the 77 — all on twin or triple Volvo Penta IPS with the 38 S and 44 S also offered with Mercury V10 outboards, with sliding-roof HT versions and open S versions. Every model page prints one strip: length overall, beam, draught, weight at half load, engines, top and cruising speed (quoted with the IPS 650 or IPS 1350 upgrade) and range. Wajer Care hubs in Amsterdam, Port Grimaud, Ibiza, Mallorca, Marbella and Miami Beach provide lifts, storage, crews and concierge for owners.
Who sails them
Wajer owners are the superyacht set and Mediterranean second-home owners who want a dayboat that looks as clean moored as it does at 40 knots — buyers who value a relentlessly simple design language, hand-built epoxy construction, Volvo Penta IPS joystick handling and a Wajer Care hub that lifts, stores, crews and provisions the boat so ownership is carefree.
Signature models
The Wajer 55 and 55 S, Robb Report's best weekender, are the heart of the range; the 38 is the modern successor to the Captain's Launch that started it all, the 44 HT added the sliding canvas roof, and the 23.5-metre 77 with its Williams jet tender is the flagship.
Strengths
Wajer is known for a timeless design language with everything that distracts hidden away, hand-built epoxy construction in Friesland, Volvo Penta IPS pods with joystick docking and automatic fenders, HT and S versions of each hull, a fully in-house team of more than 350, and Wajer Care hubs that look after the boat in the Netherlands, France, Spain and Florida.
Considerations
Each page prints only one short specification strip — no tanks, cabins, heads or CE category — and the 'View all specs' button leads to the home page; weight is given at half load; speeds are quoted with the uprated IPS 650 or IPS 1350 engine option; the 44 HT names its engines without horsepower; the 38 S prints two builds side by side (IPS and Mercury V10 outboards) so the IPS figures are stored and the V10 ones noted; and the 44 and 55 pages show mainly colourway renders.
Analysis generated 9/18/2026
Part of
Where they build
The building sites this yard publishes, in its own order.
Heeg
Heeg, Friesland, The Netherlands
Lemmer
Lemmer, Friesland, The Netherlands
Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 13
- Length range
- 7.2–23.45 m
- Hull forms
- Motor Monohull 13
- Cabins
- 0–3
Models by this brand
13 models
Wajer 34
LOA: 9.83 m
Wajer 37
LOA: 11.3 m
Wajer 38
LOA: 11.83 m
Wajer 38 S
LOA: 11.83 m
Wajer 44
LOA: 13.1 m
Wajer 44 HT
LOA: 13.1 m
Wajer 44 S
LOA: 13.1 m
Wajer 55
LOA: 16.8 m
Wajer 55 HT
LOA: 16.8 m
Wajer 55 S
LOA: 16.83 m
Wajer 77
LOA: 23.45 m
Wajer Captain's Launch 7
LOA: 7.2 m
Wajer Captain's Launch 8
LOA: 8.3 m
History
Wajer describes itself as a thirty-year voyage: over two generations it went from a local builder of launches to a name known across yachting. The Captain's Launch is the boat it says started it all, followed by the Wajer 34 and then the larger Wajer 37. The yards are in Friesland, in the northern Netherlands, which the company calls the heartland of Dutch boatbuilding -- the Wajer Boathouse and Wajer Yachts at Heeg, and Wajer Super Yachts at Lemmer. More than 350 people design, build, sell and service the boats, all of it in-house, and the hulls are built by hand by specialists in woodwork, epoxy construction, systems and design. The design aim is stated plainly: keep it relentlessly simple, and hide whatever would interrupt the line.
History written fromwajer.com/about· Aboutread 9/25/2026