Used Kong & Halvorsen Yachts For Sale

As we set the stage to southern Norway, near Arendal, the curtain opens to the year 1887 when Halvorsen Boats was founded by a man named Halvor Andersen, a farmer who launched his first wooden boat. Our next character joins the stage —Lars, Halvor’s son, who followed in his dad’s boat builder footsteps. The next act require tissues, as Lars loses everything when he sinks the Nidelv, an uninsured sailing ship on its maiden voyage! In 1922, Lars then heads to Cape Town, South Africa to begin again. Success returns as Lars decided to start a business repairing lifeboats damaged on the voyage to Cape Town. He and his five sons weren’t able to live off that meager income so he returned to his boat building roots.