Year 1927 May
International Rule/Second Rule
Designer W. & R.B. Fife
Builder W. Fife & Son
Construction/Hull# 748
Length Overall 19.86 m
Waterline 12.95 m
Beam 3.76 m / Draft 2.60
Sail Area 190 sq.m. (1947)
Original Owner J. Lauriston Lewis, Original Name RHONA
1927 - 1929 J. Lauriston Lewis - name Rhona - home port: Greenock (Great Britain). Rig: Bermudan cutter Mr. Lauriston was the owner also of Lucilla. She had good results in the 1929 Cowes Week with a third overall placement (first Mouette, second Moyana) and 1 first in one of the six races.
1930 - 1932 Earl of Essex - home port: Greenwich (Great Britain).
1933 - 1958 Arnfinn Heje - new name: Hei II - home port: Oslo (Norway). He was a producer of margarine. She entered the
1961 - 1969 Jan Arthur Iversen - new name: Frisco VI - home port: Sarpsborg (Norway). Engine installed in 1960. In 1961 she has been restored with the construction of a big doghouse and she has been converted to auxiliary yawl.
1969 - 1970 Urban Strom, an artist specialized in composition of tin on on black oak who wanted to use the boat as a studio. He transported the boat to a place just outside Gothenburg 1971 Disappeared from the Lloyd‘s Register
1971 Jan. - 1974 Sept. Stig Westberg and friends. In spring, Hei II was brought to Drasgmark (on the west coast of Sweden) at the Broderna Jacobsson yard, where she underwent a complete refit with, by others, had the engine changed and a new iron structure under the mast; new sails from Bruce Bank Sails were added. For four years, she sailed in Scandinavia and in northern Germany.
1974 new Swedish owners - new name: Golum - home port: Stockolm (Sweden) The latest news (May 2013) report that she is ashore in not very fine conditions in a yard close to Cadaques (Spain); her mast was broken in 2011 and her owner does not even know who is William Fife; a big cockpit has been added on deck and the hall has been partially coated with polyester.
