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things to do and on my mind, but we’ve now finally redone<br />

the whole yacht in full – taken the deck off, removed the interior,<br />

scraped the insulation from the hull and then rebuilt or<br />

replaced everything as close to the original design as possible.<br />

«This Autumn, Indigo was finally floating again at the shipyard<br />

dock, and she is shining like a new build.«<br />

Hans showed less enthusiasm at school, probably because<br />

his thoughts wandered too often out to sea and to the yachts<br />

in the yard. He then studied shipbuilding at the Technical<br />

University of Bremen – with great enthusiasm and in record<br />

time: »I started when I was 19 and finished when I was 22.<br />

It wasn’t possible to do it faster. Nobody could believe it<br />

after my previous academic performance!« As soon as he<br />

graduated, he project-managed the construction of a large<br />

motor sailer at A & R for half a year and was then hired<br />

as second engineer on the yacht. »We sailed directly from<br />

Die Werft Abeking & Rasmussen<br />

am Ufer der Weser // The<br />

Abeking & Rasmussen boatyard<br />

on the bank of the River Weser<br />

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