A boat builder legend!
Sleipner were proud to present The Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr. Christoph Rassy, an industry figurehead five decades more senior than Jack, with a track record of having built more than 10,000 yachts and founder of Hallberg Rassy at the 2020 IBI & Metstrade Boat Builder Awards.
In an extraordinary surprise Lifetime Achievement presentation, Hallberg-Rassy founder, Christoph Rassy, was greeted by Arne Kai Skauen, the former long-standing CEO of category sponsor Sleipner, in a socially distanced meeting of boats off the western coast of Sweden. Visibly moved, Christoph joins a Boat Builder Awards hall of fame that includes Paolo Vitelli, David King, Robert Braithwaite, Annette Roux and Bill and Bob Healey.
IBI Editor and chair of the Boat Builder Awards judges, Ed Slack, commented: “Our congratulations to all who won today and thanks to all companies who somehow found the time among all the turmoil to enter this year. Our industry’s reaction to the opportunities and challenges of 2020 has been incredible in so many ways. No one would have wished for the test of a pandemic, but we have all learned just what strength in depth we have through this experience. It was good that we were able to celebrate the enterprise and sheer hard work of all boatbuilders at this time.”
“The achievements of builders and their supply chains across the globe this year have been incredible,” said Niels Klarenbeek, Director Maritime METSTRADE. ”That’s why we were determined to stage a special edition of the Boat Builder Awards in our METSTRADE studio today. Our thanks go to our sponsors, organising team and judges for making this not only possible but also a notable occasion to mark a year I’m sure we will never forget.”