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Photojournalism: Peter Jacobi 2/5At seven in the morning, I set out with Peter Jacobi in his small fishingboat, “Sælen” (The Seal). The boat, rigged with about half a dozen small seal-figurines, was built in 1945 - the same year Jacobi was born. He acquired the boat many years ago, rather worn down and with an engine that wasn’t quite what it used to be, so he decided to replace the engine with one from an old bus. When they heard this, the locals all thought Jacobi was going crazy, and told him it wouldn’t work.To this day, it still runs smoothly.

Photojournalism: Peter Jacobi


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At seven in the morning, I set out with Peter Jacobi in his small fishingboat, “Sælen” (The Seal). The boat, rigged with about half a dozen small seal-figurines, was built in 1945 - the same year Jacobi was born.

He acquired the boat many years ago, rather worn down and with an engine that wasn’t quite what it used to be, so he decided to replace the engine with one from an old bus. When they heard this, the locals all thought Jacobi was going crazy, and told him it wouldn’t work.

To this day, it still runs smoothly.

This was posted on Tuesday the 17th, August, 2010