What Stern Hausboot does

Stern Hausboot is a micro-scale German company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, on the Baltic Sea coast. The name translates from German as 'Star Houseboat' (Stern = star, Hausboot = houseboat), which strongly suggests the business is oriented toward houseboat-related tourism, rental, brokerage, or associated marine leisure services serving visitors and travelers to the Fehmarn island market. The company reports a current headcount of 5 employees, placing it firmly in micro-enterprise territory.

The company's online operational surface is presently dormant. The registered web domain, stern-hausboot.de, resolves to an IONOS domain parking page rather than active business content, and no product catalog, pricing schedule, distribution channels, marketing assets, social profiles, or app/web application is documented in the source data. There is no disclosed information about business model mechanics, customer segments, booking systems, fleet size, or partnership arrangements, and no revenue, funding, or ownership data is available. Operating status is conservatively marked as closed in the structured source data.

Taken together, the evidence supports a profile of a very small, single-locality German micro-business whose functional category can be inferred from its name and coastal location but whose commercial activity, customer base, and financial scale cannot be confirmed from the available material. Any analytical use of this company should treat the lack of first-party disclosures as the dominant fact.

Name

Stern Hausboot

Website

https://stern-hausboot.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stern Hausboot is a 5-employee German micro-company founded in 2011 in Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein. Its name ('Star Houseboat') and Baltic Sea location suggest a houseboat-related tourism or rental operation, though no active business operations or product information are available from current sources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Boat Rentals and Leasing

NAICS

Boat Building (336612), Ship and Boat Building (33661)

SIC

Ship & Boat Building & Repairing (3730)

akta.pro primary industry

Houseboat & Leisure Barge Manufacturing (IMAJAEAJ)

Keywords

• Houseboat rentals
• Boat tourism
• Waterway vacations
• Leisure boating
• Houseboat charter

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Core offering

Based on the company name "Stern Hausboot" (German for "Star Houseboat") and its location in Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein — a coastal area near the Baltic Sea — the company likely offers houseboat-related services such as rentals or charter. However, the company's website is inactive and no products, services, or operational details are confirmed in the source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Bénéteau Group: Largest European sailboat and motorboat manufacturer with brands across leisure boating. Comparable as a broad incumbent serving the same leisure boating customers, though at much greater scale and broader product range.
• Hatteras Yachts: Established US luxury motor yacht and convertible builder. Comparable as a broader leisure craft incumbent with overlapping target customer base in premium boating.
• Brunswick Corporation: US-based global leader in recreational marine (Bayliner, Sea Ray, Boston Whaler, Mercury). Comparable as a broad incumbent with marine manufacturing and propulsion in the same leisure boating category.

Direct peers

• Boesch Motorboate: Swiss premium wooden motorboat builder with strong ties to European lake leisure markets. Comparable as a small, premium-positioned European leisure boat manufacturer.
• Nicols: French builder and renter of houseboats (pénichettes) for European waterways. Closely comparable as a combined houseboat manufacturer/charter operator serving leisure customers.
• Le Boat: Largest European bareboat houseboat charter operator (former Crown Blue Line). Comparable business model in the European houseboat leisure rental market.
• Linssen Yachts: Dutch family-owned builder of motor yachts and houseboat-style cruisers. Directly comparable as a European niche small-craft builder with similar target customers and product positioning.

Emerging players

• Frauscher Bootswerft: Austrian premium electric and motorboat builder. Comparable as a small-to-mid European niche leisure boat builder with similar premium positioning and limited scale.
• Houseboat Holidays: UK/Europe houseboat rental platform. Comparable as a smaller-scale peer in the European houseboat leisure/charter market with similar operator size.

Regional players

• Maritime Construction GmbH: German-based marine construction and outfitting company. Comparable as a German regional marine construction peer serving overlapping European customers.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stern-hausboot

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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