Ship naming dockyard no 7 “Tanja” 6 KR-Yacht
Dockyard number 3, “Noringa” 18m motor yacht, Constructing engineer Oehlmann
First launching “Tanja“
Rolf Steckmest's first boat - his father's masterpiece
First launching – a moving event
The next assignment arrived: An 18m motor yacht “Noringa” marked by Kurt Oehlmann.
A many facetted challenge. The ship was too high for the hall, so it had to be dug out a few meters deeper. That was the way things were made to fit.
The wood for the yachts were delivered by train to Kappeln and in the first few years it was brought along the Schlei in hand wagons to the sawmill Grauhöft.
The number of workers grew and soon everybody on the coast knew that rather good ships were built at Grauhöft.
At the beginning of the 60's sailing became more popular again and there were assignments for mahogany-yachts of the Danish constructing engineer Slaby Larsen. 10 boats of this type and a small series or KR-Yachts by the constructing engineer Anton Miglitsch from Bremen were built.
Up to four wooden yachts were built by the crew at once in the old wooden hut, without a telephone – unimaginable today.
The assignments were sealed with a handshake, which also would not be possible today.
Rolf Steckmest got his first boat - his father´s masterpiece.