March 2024 - Under heavy restoration in Fredrikstad and will join the Oslo Fjord fleet next season 100% and maybe visit Turku in 2025 for the WorldsOctober 2022 - Ibis has just been brought to Fredrikstad she will be joining the Oslo Fjord Fleet, under sail number NOR-29 ‘IBIS’. The new owner intends to fix her up and add her to the Oslo fjord fleet which then will count 7 active boats - only 3 to go before we reach the local goal of minimum of 10 Eight Metre (8mR) Yachts in the Oslofjord.IBIS is a Bjarne Aas 1928 design and built. A small update in January of 2023 was that she will be sailing with sail number NOR 38 her first sail number was N 29 and at this moment she is known to have NOR 29 so let's see what her final number will be. More info will follow.Built for a Spanish gentleman who obviously ran out of money because he never was able to collect his yacht, she was then resold to a Norwegian.lbis won the Visby Trophy in 1936 and then vanished completely only to reappear disguised as an ocean cruiser in 1969. Major work to correct Ibis's shameful condition was started in 1971 and finished in 1973. The Work included replanking, new keel, and a new rig. She is now one of two flush decked 8mR yachts in Scandinavia this being allowed at the time of building. According to the "legends", Ibis was ordered by a Spanish gentleman who then could not afford to bring her out. Since Bjarne Aa's shipyard in Fredrikstad, Norway has burned down, there are no sources there to check if this is true. The boat then remained in Norway for a few years and was reportedly owned by Peter Holm jr. In 1935, Ibis was sold to Sweden, to Bengt Nordenskiöld in KSSS who raced her successfully for many years. During the Second World War she was sold and seems to have had several owners, including a C.J. Kjellberg (1944). In connection with this, she got rid of her lead keel. After the war she was bought and sailed for a long time by T(age?) Thiel.In the 60s she again had more "short" owners, i.a. some young people who found her standing on a lap. (It was told by one of these, no name, when he talked to me on the bridge somewhere, in the 70s). The last owner during the 60s was Milton. He wanted to make Ibis a "modern" ocean cruiser and installed a masthead rig, interior with practical perstorp plates (this is not to say that he was the one who ripped out the original interior) and man train. He sailed her for a few years under the name "Sandhamn". This, also according to the "saying", because he had stolen porcelain from Seglarhotellet with that name on it, which then seemed to be specially ordered for the boat....Ibis was saved from this condition in 1969/70 by Ola and Ulf Nilsson. They removed the main train, made a new interior and put on a correct 8-mast that sat on the 8mR Isabell. As the full-length mast/iron keel combination gave a very bent boat, the brothers decided to give Ibis a major renovation and to put on a new lead keel. The new keel was made based on an original drawing of another Aas-eight from -28 that they found in Fredrikstad. They also decided to remove the original house, which they thought was ugly, and to cut the outermost part of the hedge into negatives. This happened in 72-73 and they then sailed and raced her very actively.In the fall of '77, Ibis was bought by Anders Göransson, Olle Lindblom, Göran Thor and the undersigned. As with most consortia, the conditions change in connection with new life situations and from the mid-90s I am the sole owner. At the end of the 90s, Ibis lay on land for a few seasons and was renovated by Thomas Larsson.