The schooner Haparanda has fascinated, even obsessed, two generations of Lundmark men. It has taken 22 years of their lives and cost more than a million dollars. Lex Lundmark spent seven years building the schooner and his obsession knew no bounds. He built the entire boat except the engine "I even made the wheel myself," he told an Australian newspaper in the 1960s...
"Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation.
It was the process of creation that gave me pleasure.
The end value we all seek is an emotional state.
The willingness to do creates the ability to do."