"Hi,
I am the owner of Margaret, a 8M designed by Anker in 1926. Baat n.300. Sail number K-4. I found the boat in France some months ago and I brought down to Italy to do some restoration. The boat has a pretty good shape  hull but needs a complete re-rigging since she now has an aluminum mast and boom. I found several pictures of Margaret in the Beken of Cowes archives. Margaret spent most of her life in the Clyde close to Glasgow and she was owned by the Ballantine family (the whisky producers). I found the original drawings of Margaret in the Oslo Maritime Museum.

I am now studying the original plan and see how I can do the modifications to the boat. I don't have any information about the interiors of the boat as well as about the hardware that was used on the boat. It could be very useful to me if you could provide some picture of your boat as well as information that could help me to do a philologiocal restoration to bring Margaret back to the original Anker's drawings. Thanks.

Regards  
Alessandro

Alessandro Baldi Ph.D.
Technology Manager Pharma QA/QC
Biopharma Analytical Solutions BU
PerkinElmer Life & Analytical Sciences
710 Bridgeport Av.
06484 Shelton CT  USA"