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Norway
Agnes IV S7
Hi there,
My name is Petter Vikeby, a man of 38 years
from Norway and in my first year as a sailingentusiast.
I hav been restoring wooden boats for some years now,
but last year I came over a beauty - a 6m R sailboat
with a mahogany hull in fairly good condition, but really
in need for an overall fix-up an restauration.
I have used the norwegian winter to searching
her histori, and have managed to get a lot of information
with good help from KSSS, and other good helpers
on the net. She was buildt in 1911 ( see picture ) but
later on, someone has put a cabin on her, and moved the
mast.
She had the sailingnumber 6 over S7 - sails I
still have today, and my goal is to get her to sail under
these numbers again.... BUT... With the cabin on..can I
still call her a 6m?
For the moment this is my only boat, and I
have a girl aged 4 that wants to sail with here father -
and the cabin makes that a whole lot easier. When I get
my number two boat - the cabin goes off, and „Agnes
IV“ will be set back to her original looks ...I think.
She is really a beauty, and the condition of the
hull, ribs, bolts and keel are actually really good. I will
have to change all steel, inventory, cockpit and deck.
Mast is original, but beam is new ( should have been
forked, but is later on rebuilded to bermuda).
So...can I call my beauty a 6m, and do you
know about any 6m boats older than mine that is still
sailing ( that is when I get mine to sail :) )
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Hope to hear from you!
Regards
Petter Vikeby
Skien
Norway petter@tim.no