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Caroline Fries
No, it wasn’t love at first sight. “More of a coincidence,” says Raimund Marz. In 1975 they met for the first time, says the social worker from Egling an der Paar, when the ship was in the water in front of Kiel’s Düsternbrook marina. A giant thing, almost 14 meters long and eight tons heavy – “but beautiful”. The 75-year-old remembers noticing the long overhangs, the old gaff rigging, the wooden hull. “I liked it right away,” says Marz, comparing the ship with a classic car that makes lovers’ hearts beat faster. At that time the boat still belonged to a friend.