8 Meter International Tonnage, designed in 1925 by Johan Anker, was built at the Anker & Jensen shipyard in Oslo, Norway. From 1933 to 1977 Margaret belonged to the Ballantines, whiskey producers who took turns at her helm for three generations. In June 2019, during the "Return to Capraia" sailing, due to the difficult weather conditions, the boat suffered the breakage in several points of the mast which measures about 18 meters. Margaret arrives in a few days at the Francesco Del Carlo Shipyard where a new mast made of spruce wood is built in a short time, so as to allow her to compete and win the Viareggio 2019 Historical Sails in her category.Margaret is an 8 Meter International Tonnage designed in 1925 by Johan Anker and built in the Anker & Jensen shipyard in Oslo, Norway, for Sir Ernest Rooney, an 8 M meter owner, former silver medalist in this class at the Paris Olympics in 1924. Her sail number is K4.The hull is mahogany and oak with mahogany and steel frames. The mast and boom are in spruce. Sir Rooney commissioned Margaret from Anker in late 1925. Anker's drawings, available at the Norsk Sjøfatsmuseum in Oslo, are dated 26 and 28 December 1925. The material plan, shape plan and sail plan were prepared then in a few days. After all, Anker in 1926 was at the peak of his experience on the design of the 8 Meters. Racer, designer and builder, he was probably the greatest expert of this Olympic class at the time.Anker used the drawings to build two sister boats, Margaret (boat no. 300) and Rollo II (boat no. 295, currently Cecilie Lund, based in Oslo). Rollo II unsuccessfully defended the French Cup for Norway in 1926, with its designer on board.When Sir Rooney bought Margaret he kept his earlier 8 M, Emily, a 1924 Fife design. Emily then passed hands to his daughter Margaret. By a curious coincidence Margaret now uses a spruce tree that belonged to Emily in the 1990s. The boat spent the 1920s in the Clyde, in front of Glasgow in Scotland. From the photos of the time, the burgundy of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club can be recognized.From 1933 to 1977 Margaret belonged to the Ballantines, whiskey producers who have alternated at her helm for three generations. Not for nothing. the only concession to the spartan surroundings below decks is for 12 whiskey glasses. We have sporadic news of this period. In 1946 Ian Rutherford published a book, At the tiller, which told the story of his cruises around the Hebrides aboard Pleiades of Rhum, a 1926 8M very similar to Margaret. Off Barra, an island north of Scotland, Clyde Rutherford crosses Margaret: “it was fascinating to see Margaret slipping at eight knots when we, with all the sails ashore, didn't reach six. It didn't take long for me to begin to dream that one day I would own an eight-metre like that and be able to navigate these fjords with such grace, speed and ease."Rutherford's book was an important reference in Margaret's restoration as it contains photographs taken from the cockpit and interior. In 1948 the Principality of Monaco printed a series of stamps with a sports theme to celebrate the Principality's participation in the London Olympics. The stamp which celebrates sailing is taken from a drawing by Dufresne which depicts five 8 M. racing in front of the Principality. This stamp was recently studied by the Ships on Stamps Unit of the American Topical Association's Watercraft Philately magazine. The boats drawn are Old Chap, Unity, Vim and, in third position, Margaret, which therefore raced in the Mediterranean before 1948.In 1968 the boat was sold to Mr. Milne in England and in 1977 she moved to Denmark to Copenhagen remaining in the ownership of a consortium until 1989. The new name was Conip and the sail number D40. In 1990 she passed into the hands of Mr. Mesnel, a collector of vintage boats from Saint Malo. The boat resumed the original name and a sail number: F40. Mesnel made a conservative restoration to the boat, redoing the deck and adapting the rigging to the harsh Breton conditions. The restoration was overseen by Guy Ribadeau Dumas, curator of other important restorations such as Aile VI and Pen Duick, in the Labbé shipyard in Saint Malo, the same one who carried out the restoration of Pen Duick by Eric Tabarly. Margaret participated, winning in her class, in the Nioulargue of 1990 and 1991 and then was kept in Saint Malo in the shed that houses the collection of Mesnel's metric classes. In 2003 she was taken by the current owners to Italy where she took part in the Argentario regattas and later kept at berth in Viareggio.At the beginning of 2004, at the Pezzini shipyard in Viareggio, she underwent a philological and conservative restoration. A spruce tree faithful to the Second Rule has replaced the Proctor installed in Saint Malo. The sail plan has been brought back to its original shape: Margaret was designed a few months before the development of the "genoa jib" so her sail plan - like that of Aile VI, Suzette, Emily and other famous 8 M Second Rule - provides for a large mainsail, a 100% jib and an 87° rake. The mast foot and deck coaming have been moved to accommodate the original sail plan. Based on photos from 1926, a new companionway was built. During the removal of the non-original bronze one, the Lloyds of London registration number 149354 was found and, on a beam in the bow, its reg