8mS YACHT REGISTER - DATA SHEET sH 24 :
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First name: "Pingvin IV"
Other names: Tornado, Banzai II, Tamara VII
Year laid down: 1918
Design: Johan Anker, Norway, drawing date 29.11.1917
Builder: Anker & Jensen Verft A/S, yard no. 212
Fate/status: not known - may still be sailing?
First owner: J. Hals, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway
Present owner:
Present homeport:
Other sail no:
Technical data:
Length overall: 13.73m
Freeboard as new: 0.75m
Sail area as new: 100.11m2
Rating as new: S=7,99
Summary, ownership & yacht name:
1918 J.Hals, Kristiania “Pingvin IV”
1919 Haakon N. Bang, Kristiania ”Tornado”
1920 - 1922 Haakon N. Bang, Kristiania ”Pingvin IV”
1923 - 1926 Per Harbitz, Oslo ”Banzai 2”
1926 - 1928 Halfdan Hansen, Oslo “Tamara VII”
1928 sold to N.N., Malmö, Sweden
Notes and references:
KNS yachting magazine Seilas reports;
Seilas 1926 no 37 page 296; “Banzai 2” 8m(old) sold by Per Harbitz, Oslo to Halfdan Hansen, Oslo. (Halfdan Hansen named her “Tamara VII”)
Seilas 1928 no 13 page 104; (May 1928) “Tamara VII”, 8mS, sold by Halfdan Hansen, Oslo to Malmö, Sweden
(OCO/19.06.2008)