Around 5000 LM boats were built. Big and small boats. Approximately 1/5 of alle these boat owners are members of the LM Club, and you can see the reason below: 

-club website for inspiration and experience sharing between LM boat owners
-club for LM boat owners with emphases on flow of information’s and social relations
-club website for inspirations and experience sharing between LM boatowners
-club library with a unique amount of information about the LM boats
-club events where many LM boats and crews meet to strengthen social ties.
-the club for the small boats and huge experiences 

the lm club denmark:
The Board of the LM Club seek technical knowledge and other information about our boats and their equipment and make it available to our present members as well as future LM boat owners.

The LM Club service our members with merchandise: Caps, Towels, Mugs, etc. The value and content of the club very much depends on you as a member, so we encourage everybody to contribute with your experiences and come up with good ideas, new initiatives and suggestions to the board in general. 

THE CLUB HISTORY 
The club’s history dates to around 2008. A small group of LM owners in Northwest Jutland gathered and found it could be interesting to have a club where they could come together, support, and inspire each other to keep the boats sailing for many more years.

In 2012, the foundation was laid for the club as a nationwide club at a founding general meeting on March 31, 2012, in Kolding, with Birger Andersen from Hanstholm as the club’s first chairman. The club was named LM Klubben Danmark. The club established its first board of three people, who created the club’s website www.lmklubben.dk. The club’s purpose was to represent the members’ interest in LM boats, to strengthen the community, and to contribute to the exchange of experiences, advice, and ideas for the use and maintenance of LM boats. The club’s website was intended to serve as a library with material gathered about LM boats, thereby acting as a distributor of the many pieces of information about LM boats.

The LM Club had a tough start, where the board struggled to find common ground, and the club was very close to total dissolution. However, an extraordinary general meeting in 2015 prevented that. At the extraordinary general meeting, a new board was formed with Hans Erik Jørgensen in Kolding as chairman. Before complete calm was established in the club, the Complaints Board for Domain Names had to be involved and determine that the domain name and the content of the domain “LM-Klubben” belonged to the club and not to the individual board member who had created the domain and felt a sense of ownership.

In 2023, the boat brokerage platform, www.lmboats.dk, was launched with the club’s intention for it to become the place where both private and professional sellers of LM boats meet. The platform differentiates itself from other sales platforms by focusing solely on one type of boat – namely LM boats. During periods with more than 40 sales advertisements from both private and professional boat sellers, the platform can be considered a success.

By the end of 2023, the membership represented 19 nations, with foreign members numbering 136. In 2024, the club’s bank insisted that the mandatory reporting of the club’s association data be done digitally on the membership portal UNIOO. This also gave the club the opportunity to let the membership portal handle the dues from the club’s many members, thereby saving “a sea” of hours of work for the club’s treasurer.

From a small group of LM boat owners in an enthusiastic interest group, the club has developed into a club with more than 1400 members from both home and abroad. No other club possesses such a unique and exceptional knowledge bank as the LM Club has built up over time. The club’s library and knowledge bank are therefore the reason that about 1/5 of all LM boat owners are members of LM Club Denmark.

It is the club’s intention to ensure that the archival material is preserved as a valuable historical archive, with ongoing collection of information for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future LM boat owners. The boards of the LM Club work purposefully based on the motto.

-a good place to get new knowledge
-a good place to share knowledge
-a good place to find new friends

 

THE HISTORY OF LM GLASFIBER

Ejner Lorentzen founded Lunderskov Møbelfabrik in 1940, producing wooden children’s furniture. The company did well, and the workshop grew into a proper factory.

Ejnar Lorenzen hired carpenter Aage Skouboe around 1942, with whom he later shared ownership of the company.

In 1952, Lorentzen and Skouboe began exploring the possibilities of fiberglass, which had arrived in Denmark. Instead of building fish transport containers out of wood, they started making them out of fiberglass. It turned out that fiberglass was ideal for fish transport containers, and therefore fiberglass was tested on other items throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including caravans, cabins, fish trucks, and speedboats.

Production of caravans ceased in the late 1950s when they began importing them from England. The import and sale of caravans were moved to their own department, which was managed by Ejnar Lorenzen, while Aage Skouboe managed the department with fiberglass products.

At the same time, production of children’s furniture also ceased, and the company’s carpenters began making interiors for pleasure boats instead.

After Ejner Lorentzen and Aage Skouboe divided the company in 1972, Ejnar Lorenzen continued with the camping division for a couple of years before he sold LM Camping. The company still exists in Lunderskov under a new name.

Aage Skouboe, with LM Glasfiber, had already started making small speedboats in the mid-1950s with the help of Eli Andersen (founder of Diesella) as a test pilot. The production of speedboats was taken over by larger leisure boats in the late 1960s.

The designs of LM boats were carried out in teamwork. Palle Mortensen and Bent Juul Andersen are almost always mentioned as the designers of the LM boats. Without diminishing their contributions to the boats’ success, the development of the boats occurred through dialogue at so-called “boat meetings.” A small group of employees from the sales, service, and production departments decided in detail—together with the designers and owners—how the boats should be shaped. Most of all, the designers’ main task was to outline the hull lines, after which Aage Skouboe’s experiences from the production of caravans found their way into the layout and fitting of the boats. All boats were marketed as LM designs.

When Flemming Skouboe took over marketing and development in the mid-70s, he made the decisions about what should be developed at LM Glasfiber. However, the development took place in close dialogue with Bent Juul Andersen and the participants in the “boat meeting group.”

The production of pleasure boats continued until the last boat left LM Glasfiber in 1994.

MILL WINGS

In 1978, the first wind turbine blade is cast at the factory. The first mill blade was 4.5 m long and was delivered to a customer.

It turned out that Aage Skouboe and his son, Flemming, got hold of something that could be big – in several ways. After the two energy crises in 1973-74 and 1979, Denmark really began to think in different forms of energy, and this particularly benefited the wind turbine industry. During the 1990s, blade production grew explosively, so LM Glasfiber eventually gave up producing boats, and instead focused entirely on mill blades.

Flemming Skouboe, who had now taken over the company after his father, chose to concentrate production in two locations in Denmark. LM Glasfiber also began to grow outside the country. In 1993, a plant opened in India and the year after a plant in Spain, and in 1999 an LM plant opened in North Dakota in the United States.  

SOLD OVERSEAS
In March 2001 a bomb hit Lunderskov. Flemming Skouboe chose to sell his and his father’s work for well over DKK 2.1 billion to a foreign consortium led by Doughty Hanson & Co. Limited. However, the expansion continues both in Denmark and abroad. In fact, same year the first wind turbine blade factory opens in China, and in 2006 a factory opens in Canada.

The expansion has since continued abroad, while the production of mill blades in Denmark has almost stopped. Expensive solutions, compared to abroad, and high transportation costs of blades up to 61.5 meters in length – a product that cannot be said to be particularly handy to transport – have resulted in LM Glasfiber deciding to close the production in Lunderskov. The small furniture factory that grew up is now so big that it completely flies from the town.   

LM WIND POWER

Lunderskov has also become too small a town for LM Glasfiber, because in 2008 the company moves the head office to Kolding and got a new name in 2010 – LM Wind Power.