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And tell us about some of your most challenging yacht projects. Every project has brought its own particular challenges, but two very different examples come to mind. One was recreating a yacht from the 1930s. The difficulty was that virtually none of the original components were available on the market anymore. We had to manufacture almost everything ourselves. It may sound surprising, but recreating something from the past can be extraordinarily demanding. At the opposite end of the spectrum, there is our catamaran project, which represents a completely different kind of challenge. It is an extremely high-tech product, looking towards the future. In that case, the difficulty comes from the fact that some of the solutions you need do not yet exist on the market. You have to conceive them, develop them and find ways to make them work. So, in one case, you are trying to recreate something that no longer exists, while in the other, you are creating something that does not exist yet. Both are equally fascinating challenges. What do you think clients often underestimate about building a completely custom yacht? I am not sure that underestimation is quite the right word. I think what clients often experience initially is fear. There is an understandable concern when you are building something that will exist only once. You might wonder how many mistakes a one-off project could carry with it, precisely because it has never been built before. That uncertainty can be intimidating at the beginning. But as the project progresses, clients begin to understand the extraordinary amount of work behind it: the research, the development, the repeated checks, the attention to detail and the creative process. All these stages gradually build confidence. So, in a sense, the experience is the opposite of what you might expect. Rather than starting with very high expectations that reality might eventually disappoint, clients often begin with a degree of uncertainty and gradually develop a much stronger sense of confidence as they see the project take shape.