Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Thor"
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2015,
05/2015
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2016,
05/2016
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2017,
05/2017
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Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Thor |
| Ex-names: | Joan, Ingeborg, Hertha |
| Registered port: | Marstal |
| Nation: | DK |
| Type of rigging: | KUTTER |
| Type of ship: | Lodsskøjte / Lotsenkutter (Colin Archer) |
| Year built: | 1910 |
| Overall length: | 12.87 m |
| Length (hull): | 10.35 m |
| Breadth: | 3.77 m |
| Draught: | 1.88 m |
| Sail area: | 65 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 60 PS |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 01 May 2016
- former pilot boat which came to Denmark from Norway at the end of the 1950s, her name was "Thor".
- used during leisure times by the owner family, later seen in bad condition in the port of Rungsted or Vedbæk.
- 1979 maintainance and overhaul in the shipyard Henriksen in Humlebæk, DK.
- 1983 registerred in Kiel, GER with the name "Joan".
- 2009 purchased by the Danish shipbuilder Ebbe Andersen from the bankrupt estate of a German owner, reconditioning until 2013, renamed the "Thor" again, used for private sailing trips then