For some young people, boat builder is still a dream job: beautiful materials, aesthetic shapes and supposedly a lot of romance. Many only realise that this is only half the truth during their training - and end up moving on to other sectors. Some, however, stay - and may even go on to realise their dream of owning their own boatyard.
Andreas Gronau, for example, builds racing dinghies according to historical plans on an estate in Schleswig-Holstein. Urte Rätsch has laid the electrical cables herself in her newly founded "7-Seen-Werft" shipyard in Lychen in the uckermark. And David Konz is thinking big - together with his aunt, he built a state-of-the-art shipyard hall on a greenfield site in Lauenburg. YACHT visited all three of them - and spoke to them about the difficulties along the way, but also about the great fortune of their own shipyard.
