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ASTender 340 Side Console carbon-fibre tender on the water

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THE RANGE

The tender your yacht actually deserves

Most tenders are an afterthought: heavy, saggy, half-full of water before you have gone anywhere. The ASTenders range starts from the opposite position. Five rigid carbon models, the 280 through to the 500, each one made to order in Potsdam with the finish and the proportions to sit alongside a serious yacht without apology.

Starting at 30 kg, the ASTender 280 weighs less than your dog, runs dry through chop, arrives looking exactly as it left, and won't shake off your upholstery. Deck layout, steering format, drive, colour: every carbon model is configured to the boat it belongs to, not the other way around.

The range

4 m flagship for now.

ASTender 280
280
Open
ASTender 310
310
Open · Jockey · Side Console
ASTender 340
340
Open · Jockey · Side Console
ASTender 400
400
Open · Jockey · Centre Console · Bench Seats
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THE VALUES
ASTender 340 underway
01Configured to the yacht

Built around your specific boat

Most tenders are generic. Every ASTender in the carbon range is made to order: steering format (tiller, jockey or side console), drive (petrol or electric), deck layout, gelcoat colour. The result is a tender that was designed with your yacht in mind, not adapted to it after the fact. A folding transom option is available on the 280, 310 and 340 for garages designed to the millimetre, because that kind of constraint is exactly the sort of problem AST solves at the drawing stage.

ASTender 340 with electric Mitek Revolve sterndrive
02Real-world stability

Drier and more stable than an inflatable

The deep-V hull and high freeboard are not styling choices: they are the reason an ASTender runs through short chop without spraying the people inside it. The maximised waterline width makes the hull more stable than a comparable inflatable at rest and underway, without the tubes that eat half your usable space. Up to four waterproof compartments and foam built into the structure mean the boat stays afloat even fully swamped. Carbon does the weight; the geometry does the work.

ASTenders factory in Germany
03Silent Running

Light enough that electric finally makes sense

Most tenders fight electric drive from the start: the hull is too heavy, so the motor spends its energy moving mass rather than moving people. An ASTender's carbon construction removes that problem at the design stage. The optimised hull needs 35 per cent less power to reach the same speed as a conventional tender, which means genuine range, a quieter run back to the mothership and a charger that sits neatly inside the seat box, drawing from the mothership or any marina socket. Every model in the range, 280 through to 500, is available with electric drive.

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FAQ

Frequently asked about ASTenders.

ASTenders are all-carbon, built in Potsdam, Germany, and the ASTender 340 starts at 47 kg: less than any inflatable of comparable size. The hull is rigid, the deep-V runs dry in chop, the freeboard is high, and none of that depends on an airtight seam holding at 0200.

ASTenders runs five models: the 280, 310, 340, 400 and 500, spanning 2.8 to 5.0 metres, all rigid carbon. Each shares the same deep-V hull geometry and high-freeboard brief; the choice comes down to carrying capacity, garage dimensions and how much engine you want underneath.

ASTenders are among the most configurable rigid tenders built: tiller, jockey or side-console steering, petrol or electric drive via Mercury, Torqeedo or Mitek, custom hull colour and deck layout, all settled at order. The carbon range is made to order in Germany, so the specification is locked in before the first ply is laid.

ASTenders was founded in Potsdam in 2017 by Thilo Keller and Catarina Jentzsch, both out of A-Class catamaran racing, which is where the precision with weight, stiffness and composite construction comes from. Every ASTenders model is built in Germany to the same standard: not a brand claim, a production fact.

Yes: ASTenders are built unsinkable, with foam sandwich construction and up to four waterproof compartments so that even a fully swamped hull, engine and all, stays afloat. That is a structural consequence of how the boat is built, not a safety feature bolted on afterwards.
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