GBR-008

Essentials

Table of details and specifications of GBR-008
	Designer	Charles A. Nicholson (GBR)
	Builders	C.A. Nicholson, Camper & Nicholsons Ltd. (GBR)
	Material	Mahogany, carvel planked
	1st certificate issued	1955-06-01
	Original boat name	Yeoman V
	Original country	GBR
	Original sail number	008
	Current location

5.5 KA-2 "Yeoman V" - shipped to Australia - 06.03.2010 by Kaspar Stubenrauch: Info received from Warren Muir:
"...KA2- Yeoman V. Originally from England, owned by Owen Aisher, Sailed as GBR 008. First owned in Australia by Frank Harrison about 1960..."
Yeoman V: K-4 - 21.08.2009 by Frits Kruyt: According to information from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK (from their Camper & Nicholsons Ltd files and Lloyd's Register of Yachts), Yeoman V was GBR-4 (K-4).
Owned by Owen A. Aisher 1955-61, and designed and built 1955 by Camper & Nicholsons (Design No A102, Yard No 810).
Information - 05.03.2009 by Matti Muoniovaara: Sail letters of Yeoman 5 were SA-4 in Melbourne 1956.
KA-8 Yeoman 5 is a design of Charles Arthur Nicholson and built 1955 by Camper & Nicholson, hull #810.
5.5 K-5 "Yeoman V" - Sailing for South Africa - 03.03.2009 by Kaspar Stubenrauch: "Yeoman V" was sailing for South Africa in the 1956 Olympics. If Skipper Leslie Horsfield just added an "S" to the existing sailnumber - like he presumably did in Helsinki to K-19 - he will have sailed 5.5 KS-8 "Yeoman V" in Melbourne.