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The company was founded by G.B.A. Eltink in 1907. At his yard he
performed wrought ironwork on wooden traditional crafts. In 1908 the company started
building traditional crafts, like "schokkers", bumboats and scows. As the workload grew,
the shipyard took on more personnel. In the depression, they did
everything to keep the company afloat. As well as repair work and the
installation of engines, they also started making baking machines.
The Eltink family comprised seven sons, all of whom worked for the
company. Some of them were carpenters, which is why the company began
concentrating on the construction of wooden houseboats, which were
built on steel or concrete pontoons.
G.B.A. Eltink died in 1930, but his wife carried on the business, a
unique move in those days. In 1941, two of her sons took over. The
other sons all worked at the furniture factory that had since been set
up and is still in business today.
In the war years, they made tobacco machines and electrical machines.
However, when the area was bombed in 1944, the yard and the homes of
the two Eltink families were razed to the ground. An emergency workshop
was built in which they worked until 1947, when the Eltink brothers
bought a 48x12 metres Rhine barge. They built two homes, an office and
a
warehouse on it, a forge and construction shop were set up in the
hold, while the hatches made way for a deck.The work ship was named
`Metallurgica`.From that time on, most of the ship were built on the
deck of the
'Metallurgica', and were destined for the four corners of the world.
The
maximum weight of the ships was 125 tons, and the 15 employees were
never short of work.
In 1959, the Eltink brothers decided to split up and set up shop for
themselves. Harry Eltink and his family moved to Mook to continue the
family business. In the early sixties, they started building hulls for
luxury yachts, primarily motor yachts measuring between 25 and 40
metres in lenght.
In 1984, Eltink Scheeps- en Jachtwerf moved to its present location in Katwijk, in
the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. Eltink Engineering was set up in
2000 and is situated in the headoffice. The company expanded in 2001
with the establishment of a second branch, Eltink Aluminium in Heijen in
the province of Limburg. Both yards are conveniently situated on the
River Maas, and the various branches now employ a total of 45 people.
Over the years the Eltink Group has build up a good reputation in
building hulls in the Netherlands, both steel and aluminium. The
company that was founded by G.B.A. Eltink in 1907 is still a family
business and is currently headed up by the third and fourth generation.
 
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