Any yacht - especially a racing yacht - that has had a long life has likely also endured many twists and turns of fate. The 12-Meter yacht HETI went down the ways at the yacht designer Max Oertz's shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, in 1912, and she, too, has had her share. Her gaff sloop rig was replaced with a yawl rig in the 1930s, and she served as a liveaboard during the World War Ⅱ years. In the late 1960s, she returned to racing under a new Bermu-dan sloop rig. At the same time, her hull's wooden planking was thickly sheathed in fiberglass and her forward profile was altered. In the late 1970s, she was taken from Germany to the Mediterranean, where she was actively campaigned again. She went through seven name changes.
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