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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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 Posted - 05 October 2009 : 4:06:19 PM
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In a few weeks the first Friday night twilighter race starts so the coming weeks will see us doing our Cat 7 & or Cat 4 certification to race. The main problem will be the Cat 4 requirements for the washboards and Rod has already obtained some new plywood and cut them out. We just have to fit them and set up the new fastenings, for which I don't have a clew about, only that they have to be fixed and have the ability to unlock them from he inside as well as the outside, which our current tinted polycarbonate ones do not.
We have renewed and upgraded most of the other gear.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 09 November 2009 : 1:40:29 PM
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This coming Friday sees the Hagar at long last going up onto the hard stand in Middle Harbour for her long overdue annual clean-up. We have the usual scrape and sanding of the below waterline and two new coats of anti-fowling. We are also going to replace the problem stainless steel toilet outlet skin fitting. It will be replaced with a new set of bronze fittings which will be epoxy glued and bolted down.
The weekend saw us going decidedly slow and there is a lot of coral and grunge on the bottom. We will also service the engine and the normal topside hull cleaning and polishing etc.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 13 November 2009 : 4:09:38 PM
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This afternoon Ian bought the Hagar into Middle Harbour to Wunderlich Marine, Ian Short's and we had her hoisted out of the water for the first time in almost 18 months. Considering that we have only had her scrubbed twice in that time she is remarkably good condition. There were no rust spots! There was a lot of long growth down low on the starboard side as well as a nice coat of slimy stuff all over. There were remarkably few barnacles and coral. All of this came off quickly when the boys gurnied her off. It is little wonder that we were going slow on the weekend.
Of note was the fact that the lower rudder gudgeon was loose and will require some close looking at tomorrow.
And so tomorrow will see a big days work with sanding and the preparation of the bottom being painted with antifoul.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 14 November 2009 : 9:54:23 PM
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Today was indeed a big day and a lot was achieved with just Rod, Ian and myself working on the Hagar. We did a lot of work upon the iron keel, however while there was some corrosion conversion there was no rust or electrolysis which was present in the first two slippings.
We ground back a lot of the keel and treated the exposed metal as well as giving the full undersides one full coat of antifoul with one more to be applied tomorrow. We also fixed the loose lower gudgeon which appears to have loosened itself over time and probably accounts for the shudder which we have been experiencing in recent times. We loosened the three holding bolts and cleaned the area and then epoxy glued and re-fastened the bolts. We also removed and replaced the toilet skin fitting with a new bronze set which we epoxy glued into place.
Rod removed the dam-buoy and removed the tube inside the hull as well as installing a new freshwater sink pump. The new pump is a manual push and pull affair and has more pressure. We have not gone for electric powered mechanisms in our boat, preferring to conserve our battery power as much as possible.
We have a good list of work programmed for Sunday and with Andy aboard we will achieve all of our tasks and will have Hagar fighting fit for the season as well as the Nationals.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 15 November 2009 : 5:47:28 PM
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Today was our final day of working on the Hagar and she goes back into the water tomorrow morning with Rod & Pete returning her to her mooring in North Harbour. There were five of us working on Hagar today with Old Pete doing a number of splices for the new kite halyard as well as the two new reaching sheets. Andy worked upon the engine while Rod & Ian worked upon the hull polishing the sides as well as washing down the topsides and polishing the cabin top. I installed a teak bracket for a new sink water pump and installed the propeller and two hull anodes. We eventually applied three coats of antifoul to the underwater hull. There were a lot of small jobs completed and the outcome was most satisfying.
We will resume racing next Friday for a twilighter at Manly as well as Sundays race at North Harbour.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 17 November 2009 : 3:23:59 PM
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Hagars' job list can now be reviewed with a still a bit to do before the nationals for safety, racing and comfort.
Amoung the jobs which I recall include the following:
1. Install the new kite halyard & sew on to the end a stop ball.
2. Service and or replace the starboard side small deck winch.
3. Finish off the job of replacing the dambuoy holder.
4. Make up a cover for the forestay fittings to prevent loose sheet
entanglements.
5. Replace main sheet and look at all the other control lines.
Chris.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 28 November 2009 : 5:07:20 PM
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Well this afternoon we had the Hagar alongside the local marina for more TLC. Rod must have had a different agenda to mine and now likes the idea of a port hole in the stern where the dam-buoy cavity, which he created is located. I replaced the toilet hose pipe and tightened up all the leaking joints. Also glued up a broken piece of timber about the stove as well as installed the new red jarrah tiller. All of which will make us go faster, sic!
Rod and Pete set up and installed the positions and block systems for the new reaching sheets. Pete also installed a ball on the head of the kite halyard.
We have one race at North Harbour and few twilighter races only before the nationals at Gosford.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2009 : 6:05:16 PM
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This afternoon Rod, his son Michael and myself spent the afternoon working on the Hagar. We prepared and patched the inside of the transom over the hole left when we removed the dambouy hole. We also replaced the pair cabin forward cabin top vents. We also cleaned the boat up and returned her to mooring.
Next week should see us finish off the transom hole as well as getting on with a host of rope upgrades.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 14 January 2010 : 03:43:29 AM
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Yesterday afternoon I went down to North Harbour to find Rod with the Hagar on the work berth. Rod had cleaned out all the unwanted sails, offshore safety gear and unwanted cruising gear from the Gosford trip.
He had cleaned and vacuumed her out and washed out the sink, ice-box and bilge.
We now have a plan to make a number of up-grades with the monies won at Gosford which will include a new main halyard. The old one is slipping and has a Pete special join. We will also replace the Vang rope, kicker and topping lift which are all old, worn, slip and jam.
We may also replace the kite halyard and sheet snap shackles with the new trigger fittings. New sails are also on the future list with a bigger number one kite for light Gosford type conditions a like to have.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 12 March 2010 : 02:45:32 AM
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Well the Hagar again needs some maintenance work with both of the plastic shroud/spreader arm covers having perished and fallen down the shrouds exposing the sharp corners of the spreader arms. We have been waiting for the rigger to replace both covers since the nationals and have decided that if they are not patched up they will ruin one of the larger jibs.
I'm also going to measure up the cabin top aluminum instrument box with the view of constructing a foam/kevlar/glass box. The old box is bolted to the cabin top and is now loose and enlarging the bolt holes as well as being severely corroded. The envisaged foam box will be glassed to the cabin top and have a layer of kevlar over the top for protection and we will also order a stainless steel tubular cover with will also act as a handle.
Always more to do's.
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Colonial
Sheet Hand
Australia
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Posted - 12 March 2010 : 7:52:33 PM
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Hey Chris,
Albert here from Haylee Maree( e26') I'd be interested to know if your main halyard and jib are 10-12mm sliced onto wire? In my case I had been using spectra for the last two or three years and because of constantly slipping halyards went back to spliced 10mm halyards. Never have a problem now. How tight is your rig? ie: what are the tensions of your aft and lower shrouds? Do you change tensions as per instuctions of your sail maker? ie: I Short recommends a lose rig with hardly anything on the lowers, what is your take on that? I remember the old Hagar e26 had a fairly firm rig, was that the case? I know Rod is right on the money and would value his opinion on this.
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4Seasons
Helmsman
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Posted - 14 March 2010 : 07:38:34 AM
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| Albert,Surely you ,like the rest of us know that theres probably no two 26s in the world with the same rig tensions ,winners included....EH |
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jcs
Sheet Hand
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Posted - 14 March 2010 : 08:33:55 AM
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| Hi Albert, Gav here from Rebel, I use spectra on both the main and jib halyards. But you need some preparation first. In my case I had to change the cleats so I down sized to suit the 6 mm rope, most wire to rope is 10 to 12mm and the jammers won't hold the 6mm spectra. The second thing you need to do is sew the inner core to the outer core at the spot where it passes the jammer. About 6inches either side of the jammer is enough but remember the different positions for all jibs. The problem is that spectra is slippery and slides easily through the outer core. To sew you need a sailmakers palm to push the needle through the spectra. It sounds like a bit of work but I feel your foredeckie will reap the benifits with no wire frews and blood on your sails. As for rig tension, my mains are set at 28 on the lews rig tension gauge, front lowers about the same and rear lowers don't even measure they are so loose for breeze up about 12 knots. This helps the middle of rig sag to leeward and power up in the light stuff. As the breeze increases you need to tighten the rear lowers so when sighting up the mast track when sailing powered up in 10 to 18 knots the mast is in column side ways. When the breeze is above about 18knots they are tightened more to help the top of the mast sag an inch or two to leeward to help depower. This has to be done as a trail and error exercise until you get it right and mark and record the settings for quick and easy duplication before or between races. For club twilighs or the not so series races I just leave in the middle setting. Just to make it more confusing, on a masthead rig, backstay tension decreases rig tension and if it's windy but with a big chop I might go for a middle rig setting for a bit of extra punch through the chop, or if it's mediunm wind and flat water I might go for a heavy wind set up. It all depends on how series you want to get. I hope I haven't confused you to much. Cheers Gav. |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 15 March 2010 : 03:43:50 AM
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Good morning there Albert,
I think that Eric is correct in that the boats differ for rig tension depending upon the cut and set-up of your rig.
We, like Gavin use a Loose rig tension-er and the settings depend upon the thickness of the shrouds. Rod does like a tight rig and does all the adjustments. I do not know what he set the E26 at. We also have the back-stay "marked-off" with texture on the pull-on sheet and increase tension as the breeze strengthens.
It should be also noted that we pull on the baby stay in bigger breezes before the back-stay is adjusted. This helps to tighten the fore-stay, flatten the jib luff, open up the leach and flatten the mainsail. All this opens up the slot between main and jib ging a clean entry and exit of wind.
With regards to the halyard, we do the same as Gavin, no wire, nasty stuff on the hands. Use 12mm spectra and sew to stop slippage. Look closely at the spectra which you purchase. We have just bought a new spectra kite halyard from Bias Boating and it looks to be too soft.
We have been in consultation with the local rigger, who is one of Sydney's best and he said that a lot of the problem with slippage of halyards is also related to the clutches. We have had quite a bit of grief with the new Ronston clutches which we purchased and installed. Most are designed for lightweight small yachts while our mast head boats need stronger clutches. I forget what he recommended and will chase it up.
On Saturday morning we were working on the Hagar ding some routine maintenance. Rod fixed the tiller extension while Old Pete and I took apart the starboard side cabin winch which has been non-functional for the past year. It is an old Barlow 23.
We are fortunate in having Old Pete as a key member of our crew. Pete has retired and "gone sailing". He races and does deliveries on a full-time basis. He is a wizard at splicing and setting up the boat and working on boats in general. He gave me a lesson in servicing winches. We stripped and cleaned the cabin-top Barlow and got it working again. However it was a problem to re-assemble which took a lot of time and frustration. We also took the central screw out of the port-side main winch and ground down the inside of the screw head which had been sticking up and there bye stopping the winch handle from properly "seating-in". This 1/8th on an inch has probably cost us four or five winch handles which magically jumped off the winch overboard.
Good sailing,
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Colonial
Sheet Hand
Australia
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Posted - 15 March 2010 : 05:13:16 AM
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Good day Gav and Chris,
I never found out about sewing the spectra until I had changed back to wire spliced halyards, the decision was made for me when H Maree was hit by another yacht on her mooring last year and was taken into a factory to be repaired. As the mast had to be dropped I decided to bite the bullet and change back. Haven't regretted it so far. I did replace the old jammers with a pair of spinlock ones and then as you say the outer coat of the spectra would slide through the jammers under pressure. I replaced them at least 4 times at $90 a time so when one of our kind endeavour skippers (X navy ) offered to splice them for me while the mast was down I happily accepted. My rig is set up as close to I Shorts requirements as I can get it with using a lews guage with barely 5-8lb in the lowers and around 22 in the caps. If it's really blowing we take up a couple of turns on the baby stay. I will try your methods Gav as well as recording the details more , I've been slack in that department, I write it down on a piece of paper and then lose it! We do adjust our shrouds before the race but will pay much more attention to the wind conditions. As I'm not a technical sailor I must admit it is confusing at times! Good though. We have mainly flat water at Gosford if it's blowing 30kts there will be about a metre chop across the bay. Chris you certainly have some handy guys in your crew, men like old Pete are priceless treasures, I hope you top him up with a rum toddy regularly. Best of luck with your maintenance.
Regards,
Albert
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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Posted - 15 March 2010 : 6:19:06 PM
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This afternoon after work I got to and cut out and pinned together a new cabin mounted instrument box. The box is made from 20mm Termanto foam. The box will have three electronic dials for Depth, Speed trough the water and the Wind direction with wind speed.
Tomorrow I will mix up a brew of epoxy and filler balloons and then glue and pin it together. Then it is a trip down to the boat for a final fitting and finally fill, glass and the protective layer of kevlar.
There are still a number of small jobs, however a new number 2 jib is on the agenda following the demise of the old one in last Sunday's race.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 25 March 2010 : 04:53:21 AM
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This week has seen little action and I finally glued together the new cabin top instrument box. This was not however without it's dramas as the epoxy hardener was found to be "off", having a sick yellow appearance which has slowed the curing process. It has worked however, to the point of the box holding together and a check this morning showed that the bog/glue mix is still hardening. Needless to say I chucked out the old bottle and purchased a new batch of hardener yesterday along with a set of small metal brushes and some machine oil for the winch servicing kit.
Hopefully this weekend we will install the new wash-boards for the new Cat 4 compliance rules. We also have to replace the spreader arm/shroud protectors. The old plastic ones fell to pieces due to UV damage and Rod got hold of some leather covers.
We appear to have found out where the latest leak has been allowing salt water into the bilge. It is most likely the stern gland or the new rubber cover for the propeller shaft which exits the hull under the companionway stairs. We have just gone back to greasing up the stern gland again for the time being and will look at it again when we go up on the slips later in the year.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 30 March 2010 : 11:23:07 AM
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The cabin top instrument box construction is nearing completion and yesterday saw one layer of kevlar and a cover coat of glass applied to the outside while we had already glassed the inside. This afternoon I will visit Ca***e Marine and obtain a coverplate of teak. This will be a thin piece of timber with an inner layer of ply. The fun will be the fastening of the box to the cabin top. Do we bolt it on or glue it down with glass and resein?
Out attempt to fix the washboards and gain Cat 4 could not be achieved as Old Pete was uncontactable and we therefore will not be racing with Manly to Pittwater on Friday.
Rod and I plan to do some work on the boat over the weekend to achieve Cat 4.
There will be no racing this weekend however next weekend should see the last race of the season at North Harbour.
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Robert Simmons
Helmsman
Australia
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Posted - 31 March 2010 : 10:04:44 AM
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If there is the remotest chance of anything fouling the box (remember, we're talking boats here!), I'd personally glue AND bolt the ruddy thing Chris.
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Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep well, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and you will be saved.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 31 March 2010 : 11:02:05 AM
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Hi there Rob,
Yesterday Rod and I talked about how to fasten the box to the cabin top and agreed that it will be bolted and sikflexed to the cabin. All of the surfaces of the box will be smooth and it will have a stainless steel handle to cover and protect it. This is yet to be made.
Yesterday I purchased the teak face plate which will have the three instrument dials and will be facing aft. Last night I gave all of the outer surface of the box a bog wipe and will sand it back tonight.
Now I'm off sailing in a twilighter race on Sydney Harbour in a 30 knot southerly. Fun!!
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