Over 100,000kr Today!

'Anne Margrethe' membership deposits passed 100,000 kr. today.

The membership drive is going well, but there is a likelihood that we will need to extend the period. Thomas will be meeting with Peter Ring-Andersen, the owner of the shipyard, to work out details.
Some correspondence and questions from prospective members indicates that there is a legitimate need to know about how much the annual dues will be! This is difficult to answer, because it will be the founding general meeting which has the authority to decide! However, Thomas Bretton-Meyer has said that his experience shows that it should not be less than 250 kr. nor more than 500 kr per year. Members of the association will not be responsible for creating debt, unless the question is put to the annual general meeting. Otherwise noone will be responsible for more than the annual membership fee.

I will be travelling home to be with my parents from the 2oth March until 11th April.

Translation of the item in the local Svendborg newspaper yesterday is faithfully brought here:

Ketch Gets More and More Friends
The rescue project for the old Svendborg ship 'Anne Margrethe ' is going well

By Bjarne Gregersen

Svendborg: Thomas Bretton-Meyer, the leader of the rescue project for the old Svendborg ketch, which is still called 'Fri', is going really well, he reports.
He is collecting the means to acquire the ship for an association, which will be called Association for the Preservation of 'Anne Margrethe'. The ship had that beautiful girl's name, when launched in 1912 from J. Ring-Andersens Shipyard in Svendborg
"We have over 100,000 kr in the account at Svendborg Sparekasse, and I know that really many more are interested, so it's just a question of time before the amount increases even more, " says Thomas Bretton-Meyer.
Via the Danish Commercial Fleet's Welfare Council information is being sent about the rescue action to all Danish ships, wherever in the world they may be. And that should very well awaken practical interest among seafarers.
The idea is that there are being sold parts á 5,000 kr.,(sic) (NB not true!