Suomen 8 mR -The Finnish 8 mR

Kahdeksikkolaivasto on Suomessa vahva - 12 venettä. Veneitä on ostettu Ruotsista ja viimeisen, Ilderim, tuli Suomeen kesällä 2010. 1990-luvulla kaksi venettä, Edit ja Pinuccia, siirtyi muualle. Edit on Saksassa Bodenjärvellä ja Pinuccia Englannissa. Molemmat ovat kunnossa. Edit on A. Mylnen piirtämä ja rakennettu Turussa 1911 Åbo båtvarvin telakalla.

Kuvat on jokseenkin purjenumeron mukaisessa järjestyksessä. Kahden maailmanmestaruuskilpailun (1993 ja 2002) kuvat on omina ryhminään. 

Eight-metre fleet is relatively large - 12 boats. Boats haven been bought from Sweden and the last one, Ilderim, arrived from Belgium 2010. Some of them have been sold abroad, too. Edit is in Germany, Pinuccia in UK. Edit is one of oldest still sailing boats, built by Åbo båtvarv in 1911, designed by A. Mylne. Edit was fully renovated before selling, for instance she got back the original gaff rigg.

Pictures are more or less in the numerical (register number) order. The images of two WM regattas in Helsinki (1993 and 2002) are put into two groups.

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Naja FIN-1     Designer Gunnar L. Stenbäck    Built by Åbo Båtvarf 1921

Sagitta   FIN-2    Designer C. E. Nicholson    Constructed  1929

Sphinx     FIN-4    Designer Gustaf Estlander       Constructed by Åbo Båtvarf   1928

Vågspel      FIN-6       Designer Birger Slotte       Constructed by Wilenius Båtvarf 1943 

Tamara VIII     FIN-7     1927   Designed by Johan Anker

Windy      FIN-8      1927   Designed by Carl Holmström 

Silja    FIN-9   Built and designed by Johan Anker, Norway, 1930.

Lara     FIN-10     Constructed in USA 1929   Designed by C. Sherman Hoyt

Iroquois FIN-12   1967   Designed by Olin Stephens

Katrina   FIN-14     1939    Designed by G. Kyntzell

Ilderim  FIN-16      1936    Designed by Tore Holm

Luna  FIN-17     2012      Designed by Charles E. Nicholson

Birgit  SWE-44    Constructed 2005  in  Sankt Petersburg    designer  Tore Holm  

Astra II    RUS-4     Constructed 2007  in Sankt Petersburg        Designer Tore Holm

Useita kahdeksikkoja - Eight metres in groups

Entisiä suomalaisia kahdeksikkoja  -  Not anymore in Finland

Wanda   FIN-3

Myytiin vuonna 2011 Norjaan

Sold to Norway in 2011 

Edit  Sunnittelija A. Mylne, valmistui 1911 Turun Veneveistämöllä. Myytiin 1993 Saksaan Bodenseelle. 

Edit was designed by A. Mylne, and constructed by Åbo Båtvarf in 1911. Edit was sold in 1993 to Germany, and she sails on Bodensee.

Pinuccia oli Suomessa useita vuosia mutta myytiin 1990-luvun puolivälissä. Vene on nyt Englannissa. Pinuccian suunnitteli V. V. Bagliotti ja sen rakensi Baglietto Varaza 1938. 

Pinuccia was owned by a Finnish consortium several years, and she was sold in the middle of 90's. Pinuccia was designed by V. V. Bagliotti and built by Baglietto Varaza in 1938. Pinuccia is now in UK, totally renovated and participating in regattas.