Hundertwasser's comment on the work

My time as captain of the Regentag, formerly the San Giuseppe T, began. (There were so many ships by the name of San Giuseppe that they had to be given an additional identifying letter.) I transferred my headquarters on board for about ten years, lived mainly on board in shipyards and at marinas in Palermo, Pellestrina, Porte Grandi on the Sile, Malcontenta on the Breda, in Malta, in La Goulette (Tunisia) and Portoferraio (Elba). I read all the books having to do with seamanship, from "Mutiny on the Bounty" to Moitessier's "Slocum" [one of the books Bernard Moitessier wrote about Joshua Slocum, "The Long Way" or "The First Voyage of the Joshua", editor's note], and Hitchcock. I got the Regentag ready for an ocean voyage to the end of the world; this took eight years. The trip to New Zealand itself only lasted a year and a half; it went by way of the Atlantic to Tahiti and on into the Pacific. I was not always on board myself, as I was already very busy. This achievement of a painter, the asymmetrical ship construction as well as the ocean voyage, have yet to receive due recognition. In Italian waters Antonio was in charge; across the oceans it was Horst Wächter, a man who only laughs when in danger. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 535)