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Dumaresq
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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 Posted - 15 May 2008 : 5:57:55 PM
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Hot off the press from Skipper Childs, is that he has ordered a new Navman wind speed and direction instrument. He is also planning for an early annual slipping so that the hull will be nice and clean during the colder months. I do not fully understand the reasoning behind this. I would have surmised that it was best to have the boat cleaned and painted in the weeks before the racing commenced in September.
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Dumaresq
Main Sheet Hand
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2008 : 07:30:59 AM
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Talk to Rod about it Stuart. It is very old Standard Horizon instrumentation and could be 20 or more years old. It could be stuffed it has never worked for us 100%. There are three instruments and we are replacing only the wind and speed dial, having already replaced the head and cable without success. If the new dial does not work we will then try and find a diagnostic specialist and pay to have it checked out.
The Standard Horizon have changed hands a few times and are currently Navman but are in the process of changing again. Talk with Rod, I'm sure that we can do something if it all works.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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Posted - 23 May 2008 : 6:59:29 PM
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The past two weeks has seen no activity aboard the Hagar, work-wise as the writer is engrossed with rebuilding a large deck on his home. Rod went out to the boat last week and gave her a run under motor around North Harbour to charge the batteries and pump out the bilge. Rod is planning to organise the annual slipping in June.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2008 : 09:08:27 AM
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Hagar IV has been booked in for slipping on the 26th & 27th of July. There is a good list of achievable work to be conducted with two skin fittings to be replaced as well as the stern gland system also being replaced with a drip less fitting.
Hagar will be going up on the Middle Harbour slipway which is two premises down from the spit bridge and behind a restaurant. All are welcome to visit.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 02 July 2008 : 05:33:16 AM
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It is now only a few weeks away until the Hagar goes up on the slips for her annual clean-up.
This year the additional work which we have slated down to do is the replacement of two sea-water intake skin fittings. With the main one being the old bronze engine cooling intake fitting upgraded with SS and having an increased diameter to allow an increased flow rate and to make the size consistent with the internal pipes of the recently upgraded system from ealier this year.
However were are still looking at a new dripless stern gland system and are open to all offers and advice at this time.
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Dumaresq
Main Sheet Hand
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Posted - 03 July 2008 : 11:29:05 AM
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Hey Chris,
Good to see you are going to do some work on the Hagar, might make her faster for next seasons point score against Dumaresq.
With the stern gland I was always under the impression that the gland has to have a slow leak something like a few drops every know and then.
Are you repacking or replacing the whole sytem?
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Robert Simmons
Helmsman
Australia
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Posted - 03 July 2008 : 2:37:40 PM
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Chris when I had my old stink boat (converted cray fisher) it had a stern gland which dripped a bit as well. After each outing I used to top up the stuffing box via grease nipple. Worked fine.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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Posted - 03 July 2008 : 3:16:04 PM
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Goodness gracious!!, two replies, I thought that you had all become infected with the same syndrome which seems to be infecting Eric and Sasha, "only lookers".
The answer is that the current stern gland is OK, but the drip, drip, drip is annoying and we get sick of having to top it up with grease all the time.
So we are exploring to replace it with one of the new drip less gismos and be lazy. We like to have a nice clean dry bilge.
Last week Rod went out to check the Hagar, she has not been used in two weeks. Had no water, only diesel in the bilge, which is leaking from the ell cheepo Chinese electric fuel pump. The engine started straight away which is good, but one of the batteries is fading on power. We have a new sealed battery which was new last season and is good, while the older acid battery has to be almost four years old and we will replace it this year.
Does anyone have any knowledge on the dripless stern glands?
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 22 July 2008 : 2:37:04 PM
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With the slipping of the Hagar all planned for this coming weekend, Rodney has most things in-hand. He took a week off work and today reports that he and the techo for ship instruments have been out on the Hagar and rectified the ongoing problem which we have had with the wind speed and direction instruments. Rod said that the head was faulty with the cable to the head having an incorrect pin configuration. They hard-wired the cable to the head and now it appears to be working.
Today I shuffled on down to the engineers and collected a new cold water skin fitting with a larger diameter inlet as well as all the up-sized tap and adaptors. All of which are in bronze as the engineer prefers them over stainless. However I'm sure that he has given us the wrong male fitting which is too small for attachment to the flex pipe which goes into the water strainer.
Will check it out and see if is correct or not.
We should have an "all-hands" weekend, and some, over the weekend with Ian flying home from Tahiti on Friday.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 July 2008 : 1:39:39 PM
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Rod & myself will be going out to the Hagar tomorrow afternoon to do a number preparatory jobs prior to her slipping on Friday night. This will be the fourth time that we have slipped this boat.
I have to take out the new cold water skin fitting as well as the tap and associated bronze elbow and plastic flex pipe fitting. I have to check that the flex pipe fitting is the correct diameter.
I'll also measure up the SS bolts which need to be replaced for both of the SS tube which holds the kite and jib turning blocks.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 24 July 2008 : 5:35:21 PM
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This afternoon I went out to the Hagar with Rod, it had been some time since I'd been aboard, having been preoccupied with home renovations. Rod has set up a stand on the nav table for the new GPS instrument and will be looking at also puting in a laptop to connect it to for better viewing the charts.
I was correct in my assessment of the water intake piping but was still out as it is a bigger flex pipe. I then motored off to the engineering shop and replaced the male fitting and the associated reduction and u-fitting.
Still to procure the SS gunnel bolts.
We have stripped out the Hagar in anticipation of cleaning her out internally.
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4Seasons
Helmsman
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Posted - 24 July 2008 : 11:14:46 PM
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| Chris, Methinks that perhaps the ''drips '' may be in the cockpit as well as the gland....(.that should start something ) EH (five seasons ) |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 25 July 2008 : 10:12:11 PM
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Well this evening I went down to Middle Harbour to pick up Rod and sighted them tie down the bow with a prop. The Hagar had already been water blasted and cleaned off. Inspection of the underwater skin revealed it to be the best to date. The skin is clean with a few missing paint spots and with only the odd barnacle on the lower part of the keel. There are however a lot of barnacles on the propeller, skeg and shaft. The new anodes which we placed on the iron keel as well as the upper part of the hull through to the keel bolts appear to have worked well and the iron keel appears to have not "reacted" to make the obvious electrolysis which was present when we last slipped her.
Rod said that the hull was very clean when she came out of the water.
And so tomorrow the dirty work begins and with good weather we may get two coats on her by nightfall.
Chris.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 26 July 2008 : 8:05:59 PM
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Today saw a big days' work on the Hagar with five of the crew working. Because the bottom was in good condition we sanded her back, ground off the blisters and spots which were primed and then anti-fouled her. We also cleaned up the propeller, shaft and the skeg. Andy took apart the inside propeller tube and replaced the stern gland with a new drip less gland as well as installed a bigger electric fuel pump. Ian and I got to and ground off the outer bronze engine water intake skin fitting and then knocked in the threaded tube. We then expanded the hole and fitted and glued in the new skin fitting.
My brother got to and removed the bolts which hold the gunnel turning block tubes which have been rust staining the stern sides of the Hagar.
We then inserted new SS bolts with yellow cocky kak, Durelack. We also replaced two of the underwater anodes. We also washed and waxed the upper sides.
Tomorrow will see a second coat of anti-foul as well as a second waxing of the sides and the connection of the cold water tap and pipping.
Rod also want to wash down the decks. Last of all is the painting of the propeller with speed prop. We have still to decide on the replacement of the propeller anode, with none being in stock.
Hagar should be back in the water on Monday morning.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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Posted - 27 July 2008 : 4:47:28 PM
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Although it is now lightening and thunder with heavy rains outside, today's effort on the Hagar was easy with everything on the agenda achieved. It was a fine, warm & sunny day and we were finished and cleaned up by 3.00pm.
Rod has tomorrow off work and will be down in the morning to take her back to North Harbour and her mooring.
Rod and I have already discussed future work programs on the Hagar, but agree with Andy that he will save an least half a days work in the future because he at last got the correct pipe for the propeller shaft.
We have also discussed how to make the boat more user friendly when away cruising for live aboard weekends. These include the removal of the cockpit floor well which would make the after double berth more comfortable.
We are also exploring the options to replace the port side bunks with a settee.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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Posted - 28 July 2008 : 5:42:35 PM
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Rod and Old Peter did the return delivery in a howling southerly this afternoon from Middle Harbour. Everything worked fine and they had no leaks or problems. Just a tad cold.
What was pleasing about the weekends work was the fact that there was no hull problems like he found last year.
Last year we identified a problem with electrolysis on the iron keel. There were small brown rust stain marks with pin sized holes. The following morning, Saturday, after being out of the water overnight these pin holes were frothing like little batteries. We ground them off, primed and undercoated these problem spots and enquired from the marina owner, Tim . He looked at the boat and stated that our anode positioning was incorrect. He drilled a hole and tapped a bolt hole into the lower after point on the starboard side of the iron keel. He then bolted on a flat circular anode. We also attached one to where the old large tear drop anode had been and with the inner part of the bolt having attached a wire to the keel bolts.
And so we appear to have fixed our electrolysis problem with no activity this year and the hull being the cleanest yet.
This year in reviewing this problem with Tim from the Marina he said that it looked like we now have too much anode, which can attract marine growth. I was unaware of this fact. There was a high level of coral and barnacles all over the skeg, shaft and propeller. He suggested that we dispense with the Volvo anode on the end of the propeller, a replacement for which we could not find as yet. So it was easy to cover the hole with silicon and just paint over it with antifoul.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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Posted - 29 July 2008 : 6:24:30 PM
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Having replaced the cold water intake skin fitting there are now four others which can be replaced at some time in the future. These include two large ones on the stern, both of which are plastic. One is for the water engine exhaust and the other is a bilge pump exhaust. They both look OK and are about eight inches above water level.
The other two are for the cold water intake for the toilet which is below water level and the sink waste which is at water level. Both of these are bronze and of small diameter and look to be in good condition.
We may replace the plastic ones at the next slipping.
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4Seasons
Helmsman
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Posted - 31 July 2008 : 9:50:41 PM
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| Chris,Do you think there might be an old 14-16ft skiff centerboard lying around unloved somewhere down there, i could give it a good home.. EH.. |
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