The Fjord story, like many exciting stories, has a humble beginning. In the late 1950s, a Norwegian named Alf Richard Bjerke visited a German boat show. He decided, then and there, that the world needed boats named Fjord..
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| The Fjord’s inventor thought of the early Ford automobile, the car for „every-man“; he envisioned Fjord as that kind of boat. He also understood that the word „Fjord“ connotes vikings: Tough, dependable, honest, seaworthy, and solid. In 1960, Bjerke started building boats in his first workshop and found a recipe for success. Fjord sales consistenty grew: By the early seventies, Fjord sales surpassed the sales of all other European motor boat manufacturers. Tastes change and Fjord’s designs changed with them. At the end of the 1980s, Eivind Amble replaced the traditional wooden designs with a new fiberglass boat that he called „Terne“ –the tern. Ten years later, Inger S. Brovid concentrated production on this boat. |
