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Victoire 1044 (1986)
Victoire 1200 (1985)
Victoire 1270 (1998)
Victoire 22 (1961)
Victoire 25 (1967)
D. Koopmans Sr.
Dick Koopmans Sr. was born in 1935. A keen racer, Dick Koopmans Sr. started the office in 1961. According to one of his clients, he learned the trade from his father who was a funeral director and built coffins! Dick, however, had a keen eye for shape and to improve his skills he went to the School for Advanced Technology in Haarlem.
Besides racing, Dick sailed every weekend and holiday during the summer with the family. By 1979, he found it difficult to combine racing and cruising with the same boat so he designed a centreboard yacht, named Jantine IV, which the family sailed to places like the Azores and Spitsbergen. Later together with his wife Elly, he sailed Jantine V to Patagonia, Antarctica and the Pacific.
Victoire 1122 (1994)
Victoire 24 (1993)
Victoire 855 (1988)
D. Koopmans Jr.
Dick Koopmans Jr. was born in 1962. From a young age, building model boats was a favourite pastime of Dick’s. By building and sailing such small boats, he gained a good insight into how a sailing yacht functions. Building model boats from drawings gave him a good understanding of the connection between a 2D drawing and a 3D construction. After graduating from the School for Advanced Technology in 1986, he started his career as a yacht designer.
Besides designing yachts, Dick is a passionate racer. He won the Round Britain & Ireland Race twice and was 3rd in The OSTAR 2009. He has also done a lot of cruising, Tahiti, Spitsbergen, Iceland, the Faeroes and many other places have been explored. So far, he has sailed more than 150.000 miles on different boats. His plan is to sail many more in the future, besides visiting places and meeting people.
Dick Koopmans Sr. started the Company in 1961, his first commissions were motorboats. However, with Dick being passionate about sailing, gradually he received more and more requests for the designs of sailing yachts. Up to 1985, he worked on his own, but when Dick Jr. graduated from the School for Advanced Technology VOF D. Koopmans Jachtontwerpers was established.