He has 45 years of experience in yacht building, probably has Elbe water in his veins and isConnected to shipping with heart and soul - You're allowed to bang the table sometimes. He has "taken many a customer or colleague to task", as the Hamburg yacht designer and expert Reinhard Steltzer himself likes to say.
As the offspring of atraditional Hamburg harbour tugboat and cargo handling company He learnt about the craft as a child; even at a young age he waswith all nautical patents and technical training equipped.
Unsurprisingly, hestrikes a daring deal at the age of 25In 1971, he bought six Mandarin trawlers in Taiwan made of GRP, a material that was still under critical scrutiny at the time, and had them shipped to Hamburg,Dragon head carvings in the interior included.
It is a success, resulting in the AMS Marine Trawler 34; the 80th boat is sold at the hanseboot in 1980.
He has to buy the plane ticket in secretThe order is triggered with a bank letter of credit. The risk pays off: theA total of around 1200 units of the 34 were builtalmost twice as many ships of the 40 series left the Asian shipyards, mainly for North America.
