An assistant professor at Erzurum’s Ataturk University was forced to demolish a wall of his house after finding himself unable to remove a yacht he had built inside.
Cafer Köse, 41, designed and built a yacht in his house in the eastern province of Erzurum, 1,750 meters above sea level. However he could not get it outside and had to hire a crane to demolish a wall of his house so he could remove the yacht.
Köse started to construct the yacht in 2009 with equipment he bought from France. The 6.8-meter by 2.35-meter yacht cost him 27,000 Turkish Liras. “I have been dreaming of having this kind of yacht for many years,” said Köse. He worked on the boat during at night and on weekends.
The yacht was put in a truck after it was removed from the duplex house and brought to the Black Sea province of Trabzon, where Köse grew up.
Köse said he is planning to sail first from Trabzon to Istanbul and then around Aegean and Mediterranean seas in the summer. “Following my retirement, I am dreaming of taking a world tour with this yacht.”
