Both are cult figures in their own way. Stefan Züst, the bearish Wooden boat builder from Altnau on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, has been sailing to remote destinations for years, preferably on small boats that he built himself. He has already written about a trip to the North Cape in YACHT classic.
Norddeutscher Rundfunk's Hamburg Harbour Concert is a programme for everyone who loves the sea, the harbour and ships. In yesterday's Sunday edition, which can be heard here as a podcast Stefan Züst reads from his travelogues.
About the programme writes the North German Broadcasting :
He is a boat builder and cruising sailor from Switzerland. Stefan Züst has his own wooden boatyard on Lake Constance. Every summer, he takes a six-week break and travels as a cruising sailor. The Mediterranean suits him less. It's the rougher sailing areas that appeal to him. He has already sailed around Scotland, high up at the North Cape or on the Gulf of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden - sometimes alone, sometimes with his family.
Stefan Züst writes wonderful travelogues about his sailing trips, which he regularly reads from in Hamburg, always in February at the winter meeting of the Friends of Classic Yachts. He writes almost poetically about his experiences of the landscape and sailing, but he also likes to talk about encounters along the way and the thoughts that go through his head during his trips. The "Viking from Lake Constance" Stefan Züst is a guest at the Hamburg harbour concert.
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Lasse Johannsen
Deputy Editor in Chief YACHT
