The Mader Company was founded in 1952 by Leonhard Mader, sen. as a carpenter’s workshop.
Already in 1954 the first wooden boats had been built.

1956

the first moulded plywood Flying Dutchman had been built. At that time it was the absolute latest technology in boat building.

 

1958

the first “Korsar” had been built at our yard. From that type our company has built about 3000 boats till today.

 

1960-1961

we made the first attempts in using plastic material where we only confined ourselves to cover the underwater areas of the boats.


1962

followed the first Flying Dutchman built in plastic. Building material was epoxy resin with fibreglass cloth.


1964

then the first “Korsar” had been built in epoxy resin,too.


1965

the first “Zugvogel” had been built in epoxy resin foam-sandwich-construction.


1972

there was the definitive international breakthrough of the Mader boats. We delivered for the Olympic Games in Kiel all the needed Finn-Dinghies. The Finn -Dinghies had to be supplied by the organizer.


1976

at the Olympics in Kingston in the Tempest-Class all the boats but one came from our shipyard. That was the one of the British favourite. After crossing the finishing line at the end of the last race he set fire to his boat on the water and thus scuttled his own boat because he couldn’t win against the Mader boats.
Reinaldo Conrad, a Brasilian sailor, won the bronze medal with a FD from our shipyard.
In autumn of that year the Tempest was replaced by the Star boat as two-man boat in the Olympic programme.


1977

Dennis Connor won a convincing victory at the Star boat Worlds in Kiel with a Star from our shipyard.


1980

at the “Skeleton-Olympics” in Tallin our boats won the gold and silver medal in the Star boat class and the bronze medal in the FD class.


1981

we built the first Soling and tested it with Willi Kuhweide and Erich Hirt at the Lake of Garda in December 1981.


1984

we won the silver medal in the Star class and the silver and bronze medal in the FD class at the Olympics in Los Angeles.


1988

we won gold, silver and bronze medal in the FD class and the bronze medal in the Star boat class at the Olympics in Seoul.


1989

we received the Award of the Bavarian Government for particular technical performance in trade.


1992

at the Olympics in Barcelona the gold, silver and bronze medals had been won by our FDs.
After that the FD had been deleted from the Olympic programme.


1996

we started the cooperation with the Wendler Company in building vehicles.


1997 we constructed models and moulds for vehicles of the Wendler Company. In the end of that year we could deliver the first body work.
1998 we won the 1. 2. and 3. place at the Star North American Championships and the 4. 5. and 6. place at the Worlds in Portoroz, Slowenia, with our boats.

1999 there was the new building of a three-man-keel-boat, the “STREAMLINE”.
We one the title at the Star Worlds in Punta Ala, Italy, and the 1. 3. and 5. place at the Bacardi Star Cup.

2000 we won the first place at the Tempest Worlds in Travemünde and the first place at the FD Worlds.

2001 we started the new building of the three-woman-Olympic-boat “YNGLING” and won the first place at the Tempest Worlds in St. Raphael and the 1. 3. and 5. place at the Bacardi Star Cup.

2003 we won the 1. place at the Yngling Open in Medemblik, the 1. place at the Tempest Worlds in Grandson, Switzerland and in the Star class the 1.place at the Keel Week.

2004 we won 1. 2. 4. and 5. place at the FD Worlds in Warnemünde, 3. place at the Yngling European Championships and the 1. 2. 3. …. place at the Tempest Worlds in La Rochelle.

2005 our boats won the 1. 2. 3. … place at the Tempest Worlds in Attersee, 1. 2. 3. at the FD Worlds at the Plattensee, Hungary, 1. place at the Yngling Worlds (open) at the Attersee and the 1. and 6. place at the German Championships in Steinhude in the Finn-Dinghy class.
   
Meanwhile we are building the following classes: Star, Yngling, 470, Finn-Dinghy, Flying Dutchman, Tempest, 505, Kiel- und Schwertzugvogel, Korsar, Streamline.
Many of those classes are built in sandwich construction, partly using kevlar and carbon fibres when allowed by the class rules.

To the above mentioned successes with our boats at the Olympics we can add about 55 World and European Championships in the above listed Olympic classes and innumerable championships in North America, GB, Germany, Austria and Switzerland which all had been won in our boats.
That is briefly the history of our shipyard