boat manufacturer founded k nigsberg east prussia germany 1923 1923 founder willy empacher headquarters eberbach germany area served worldwide products rowing boats website www.empacher.com an empacher 8 racing shell from harvard university at henley royal regatta 2004 with distinctive yellow and black colors empacher company name bootswerft empacher gmbh is a manufacturer of boats . today they produce racing shells for the sport of rowing . contents 1 history 2 boats 2.1 manufacturing 2.2 successes 2.3 competition 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit originally building sailing yachts willy empacher founded his boatyard with wilhelm karlisch during 1923 in k nigsberg east prussia . the boatyard was the largest east of berlin during the 1930s . they built boats for germany during the war but in 1945 the family fled their town and reached eberbach germany in 1947 . 1 willy started a new business at the seibert boat yard in eberbach repairing and making small boats . in 1952 they started producing racing rowing shells an enterprise that has become their main business today . the business took off after jochen mei ner won the silver medal while racing in an empacher single scull during the 1968 summer olympics . they built mainly moulded cedarwood racing shells but collaborated with basf to produce the world s first plastic shell in 1956 . empacher built the first plastic to receive a gold medal during the 1972 munich olympics . this was also the first race worthy sandwich build plastic boat . 1 this process includes using a wood frame to create the boat hull and then filling with it with composite material . 2 hans empacher willy s eldest son took over the business in 1970 . hans optimized the company by creating internal competition and promoting plastic boat construction . today brothers helmut and rainer empacher are managing partners of the business . 1 boats edit boats built by empacher are easily identified by their pale yellow color and black trim . empacher produce every fisa recognized racing boat category . the company tries to produce two new boat designs every year . 3 manufacturing edit empacher as all other racing shell manufacturers have replaced wooden boats with carbon fibre and honeycomb sandwich constructions . the nomex honeycomb reinforces the kevlar carbon fibre inner and outer frames . empacher uses a vacuum bag technique to bond the outer layers with the honeycomb core . combining kevlar and epoxy resin creates a tear and impact resistant outer shell . 4 empacher reinforces the gunwale with an additional carbon layer and carbon foam frames . empacher offers a wide range of boat molds for each category such as eights and coxless fours and rigger options . different molds suit different weight racing categories . a lightweight rowing team would use a different mould than an openweight team . also depending on the team s needs classical multi stay aluminium riggers carbon two stay riggers of carbon fibre aluminium wing rigger and carbon wing riggers are offered . 5 wing riggers are used for sweep rowing . successes edit empacher rowing shells are used by a large number of crews rowing in international competitions including world championships and the summer olympics . overall empacher boats have received 64 % of the wins in all race categories during 2013 . 6 in the eights all crews but the usa who used a hudson used empacher boats during the 2008 summer olympics and the 2012 summer olympics . in the 2012 london olympics empacher boats won almost all boat categories with ten out of fourteen gold medals . 7 competition edit other big racing shell manufacturers include companies such as hudson wintech pocock and filippi . see also edit wikimedia commons has media related to empacher . racing shells references edit a b c bootswerft empacher gmbh . web.archive.org . retrieved 2015 09 03 . a.b.b. amateur boat building how to build a foam sandwich composite boat . amateurboatbuilding.com . retrieved 2015 09 03 . bootswerft empacher gmbh . web.archive.org . retrieved 2015 09 03 . empacher rowing boats johnston racing australia . johnstonracing.com . retrieved 2015 09 03 . bootswerft empacher gmbh . web.archive.org . retrieved 2015 09 03 . http www.empacher.com images 13e.jpg http www.empacher.com images 19.jpg external links edit empacher official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title empacher & oldid 739860597 categories companies established in 1923manufacturing companies of germanyrowing equipment manufacturershidden categories commons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated 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