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Wolski on the "Sharki"
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Barbara Hardinghaus / DER SPIEGEL
When Cezary Wolski saw the former "Rubin" for the first time, 22 years ago, she was a bleak sight.
The yacht had been lying in the port of Szczecin for four years.
Its owner at the time had it repaired, it should be extensively renovated, that was the plan.
At some point he stopped answering.
The shipyard belonged to a friend of Wolski's.
He was desperate because the berth cost a lot of money.
When a judge declared the yacht "abandoned property", Wolski wanted to do his friend a favor and bought the ship: 15 meters long, 120 square meters of sail area, the hull made of mahogany.
Wolski was a young man at the time: 32 years old, he came from Warsaw and had learned shipbuilding in Stettin.
He always knew that one day he would have his own boat.
What he found could hardly be called a boat.
He stared at a cleared hull that lay before him like a dead bird.
Cezary Wolski is someone who is always on the move. Even at school the other children called him "Sharki", like the shark that never rests.
And so Wolski just went to work.
He built the cockpit, pulled in the deck, installed lights and lines and got a new engine.
The longer he worked on the yacht, the more it became a part of his life.
He baptized her with the name "Sharki".
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