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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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 Posted - 05 February 2015 : 5:41:27 PM
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Our work program on the Hagar has seemed to have slowed up somewhat with all the racing as well as family commitments etc. However we will still be moving onwards again and this weekend Rod is planing to do some more sanding of the upper decks. We have completed the cabin tops and have applied mainly two coats of undercoat the this area. We have most of the rear sides also sanded off and have only the inside cockpit seating areas and the floor area about the well to sand off. It looks very patchy but we will get there eventually and are hoping to have a final coat of white on all the top-sides by the Nationals.
We have been having some work done on our sails in preparation for the Nationals with our big number one heavyweight jib been patched and the leach trimmed off. Our lightweight main and jib are still in very good condition and are only used for regattas. This coming week we will have the leach of the old main taken up and the old big kite also patched. We have no plans to purchase any new sails but a new number three would be nice.
Slipping halliards have remained a problem and Rod is having the jib halliard professionally fixed with the area of the clutch being thickened by having a small rope inserted into the core. Rod had applied an outer sheath but this has come away twice due to friction and wear and tare. We have replaced the old main-sheet and the new one was a second hand sheet which has good having texture and easier to handle. We will also replace the main out-turn adjustment sheets soon. We are contemplating looking at buying a new longer lightweight kite pole as the old one is heavy and difficult to handle. At present the foredeck is a bit busy with a whisker pole and the big old pole on the deck as well as the lightweight pole on the boom. We use the big pole for the number one jib in the Friday night kite-less twilighter races.
And so Rod and I are kept thinking and busy and continue to enjoy working on the Hagar.
In the coming winter I will be keen to finish off any top-side painting as well as sanding off the hull sides and painting the sides. We will also be having the mast out and are having the standing wire rig replaced.
We are racing on Friday night only this weekend and working on her on Sunday.
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grunta
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Posted - 09 March 2015 : 8:46:26 PM
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| Hi Chris and Rod , when do we expect to see the mighty Hagar barge her way into Botany Bay for the 50th . Cheers Grunta |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 16 March 2015 : 03:03:32 AM
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Well, another Endeavor Regatta has finished and there are many saw bodies and wallets after the big winds of Friday and Sunday. Botany Bay ran a trouble free regatta with good close racing seen in the 26's as well as between ourselves aboard the Hagar and the Rhumline.
Hagar made a late appearance on Friday seeing myself having to bum a rid out to the start and jump aboard the Hagar from the Photographers yacht. Rod with Ian and Andy had sailed up the coast in a strong southerly making use of a number 4 jib and the tri-sail pocket mainsail. We started on time though using the full mainsail and a number 2 jib. It was very close racing with the Rhumline who were pointing higher and we were going slightly faster at times. We snuck through the Rhumline on the last work to edge them out. This pattern was repeated in all of the following races with Rhumline winning the second heat on Saturday morning in the light with we edged them out in the following two heats on Saturday. Sunday saw a big southerly. We missed the start by over a minute but were on the Rhumline's heels by the top mark. They held us out until the final run to the finish when with boat craft under kites in over 20 knots the Rhumline were knocked down by a big squall. They lost a man overboard and were laid flat twice with the mast almost touching the water.
And so while the numbers show us winning comfortably overall it was in fact a close series and the boat which made the least errors came out ahead.
There were only three competitors in the 27 plus this year racing, but there were two additional Mark2 E30's in attendance and next season John's Mark 1 E30 should at last be racing and the two Mark 2's should also be racing bring our fleet up to six craft.
The Dumeresq did their usual number on the E24 fleet with the Western Australian's having a good series but no cutlery this time. The Dumeresq pulled up in their last heat on Sunday to render assistance to the Rhumline man overboard.
I still did not find out who won the E26's with the top two boat even going into the 5th heat and the 6th heat being abandoned due to the heavy and wild conditions.
Possibly the best close racing in some years.
Hagar will be sailed back to Sydney this morning.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 26 April 2015 : 07:16:38 AM
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Well the 2014-2015 sailing season for the Hagar is now well and truly finished and we are planing the winters maintenance list of jobs to be conducted over winter. As we have had the Hagar now for just over ten years the rig has to come out and all of the wires are to be replaced for safety as well as insurance requirements. However the are two lists, the must doe's and the like to doe's.
The Must Do's include:
1. Replace the rudder gudgeons and fix any looseness and knocking in
the steering. This will require the boat out of the water, the
procurement of the gudgions and this will will take place in
August during her annual slipping.
2. Annual slipping and anti-fouling. During August/September.
3. The Rig replacement by Weasel at Manly Boat Shed.
The Like to Do's will include:
4. The replacement and upgrading of mast electrics as well as a new
set of mast instruments. When the mast is out.
5. Finishing the deck paint stripping, undercoats and finish Paint.
6. The repainting of the hull sides.
7. The sanding and re-varnishing of the internal wood-work.
There may be more but that is all I can think of for now, it's enough, dont-we-know!
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2015 : 05:10:20 AM
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Last weekend Rod and myself borrowed a Hooker Dive unit to try it out. A member of our Club who races a Sydney 36 has been using this dive unit to clean his yacht with success for a couple of years. We were tired of paying for our boat to be cleaned with some asking as much as $100.00 for an underwater clean. And so on Saturday afternoon we met at the Marina next to the club with the intent of testing the unit on myself and diving on the Hagar. Unfortunately it was heavily overcast, raining, but worst of all the water in North Harbour was filthy from all of the rain and runoff into the harbour. And so I declined going into the water simply because it just looked too shark like. We did test the unit on the wharf and it is a very simple and easy to use system.
So yesterday I ordered a new unit, known as a Power Dive Unit. It is a single person unit with all inclusive costing $1,495.00.
We usually have the boat cleaned around three to four times per season but will now look at changing the anti-fowl paint to a hard compound paint and look at a smoother and faster bottom. The unit should pay for itself over two to three years. We may also have more members of our club kicking the can to use the unit as well.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2015 : 03:49:43 AM
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Well this week saw the arrival of our new Hookah, Power Dive unit. It looks all nice and sparkling and we now will wait for a nice weekend to test her out.
However this weekend sees Rod away today and so I will take the opportunity to change the oil and the oil filter as well as the two fuel filters which appear to be blocking the flow of diesel to the engine.
Sunday is the annual North Harbour Sailing Club's Prize Giving BBQ which will be held at the Club. The club's AGM is held sometime in July or August which will come soon enough.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 May 2015 : 07:17:18 AM
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There was not much activity last week and when I went out to the Hagar on her mooring with the intent of servicing the engine with an oil change as well as exchanging the oil filter as well as the two fuel filters only to discover that there were no filters aboard the boat. So I left all the tools on board and went home. On Sunday we had a great BBQ and prize giving at the Club.
So this week I ordered and received two new Oil & two new Fuel filters, and we are looking at going down the Hagar early on Sunday and completing the servicing. We will not be testing out the Power Drive Hooker unit because I have to get away early. I'm off to a work conference early Monday morning to Darwin for a fly in fly out visit.
The other news is that we have confirmed our booking for the Hagar to going to Weasel's and to have the standing rigging replaced in early June.
Still lots to do and not enough free time. I have a mountain of work on my home with a large portion of our rear stone wall fence having fallen over due to three huge gums lifting the fence foundations. This will necessitate the twenty five feet of fallen wall being broken up and removed and a new fence section installed and the trees to be removed will cost at least $3K and the minefield of negotiations with the greens in the local council.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 30 May 2015 : 12:29:30 PM
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The work carried out last Sunday on the Hagar reveled that the fuel tank is contaminated with slime growth. This had blocked the main diesel fuel filter as well as the pipe from the tank to the filter. We replaced both fuel filters and cleaned out the pipe and after recharging the filters and lines as well as bleeding the injectors finally got the engine running. We then pumped out the old oil and replaced it as well as the oil filter.
We then took the Hagar for a run around North Harbour to Manly and North Head and she is running smoothly.
However the fuel tank remained contaminated and today we will pump out all of the old fuel and clean the inside of the tank with Mentholated Spirits and wipe out the inside with rags and spray and clean spirits. We have done this job once before when we installed to large hatches in the top of the fuel tank. It is a dirty job but should not take too long.
This problem is bought about by not keeping the fuel tank full of diesel and treating it with the appropriate chemicals. If the tank sits for some time and the fuel is not turned over quickly, which occurs in my 4WD Diesel Land Cruiser, then condensation forms in the tank of the boat and this moisture mixes with the diesel which allows the formation of a bacterial sludge to grow and develop. It can get to the stage where there is a plant like growth can take over the tank and will stuff up the fuel lines, filters as well as the injectors.
At this stage we can see a mixture of water and grey sludge in the bottom of the tank as well as black slime on the inner walls of the tank.
So off I go to clean her out.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2015 : 4:41:19 PM
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Well the dirty job of fuel tank cleaning has now been completed and the engine is running smoothly.
Rod took the Hagar into the Trehearne boat shed for the rigger to do his thing on her this morning, however the weather and wind was gusty and Weasel the Rigger would not take the mast out in gusty conditions. So he will have to do the job tomorrow, or at least start the job with Hagar expected to have the stick out for two weeks thereabouts. This weekend we will look at new wind instruments.
Any suggestions?
Weasel also scorched the ideas of eliminating the Baby Stay with a second pair of lowers. This he explained was due to the angles not being correct. He is going to make the adjustment for the Baby Stay to be in the cockpit and not the crew, me, to be fiddling about on the foredeck. He will also install a tube which will turn so that the Jib will go around the Baby Stay with much less friction.
We are awaiting a set of rudder bushes from Colin Cole and we will drop out the rudder when she is up on the hard stand in August and install the new set which me hope will fix the looseness in the steering.
The painting has not run away yet, don't-we-know?
Chris.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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Posted - 14 June 2015 : 08:18:28 AM
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The work on the Hagar is developing and proceeding slowly with the mast having come out last week and Rod having procured a new set of wind instruments which will go onto the mast this week. We are currently in the process of sanding back and paining the mast but this is a patch job only with the old paint job still mainly good and we are just fixing any blisters as well as the spreader arms which are in poor condition. Today will see us apply a second coat of gloss to the needing areas.
The old Mark 2 E30, the Kaos is here at the Manly Boat shed and is still being fitted out. The owner says that it is a work of love and he is having difficulty in finding the time to finish her. He is a shipwright and works here full-time. But she is looking good with all the decks and sides re-painted and a new Volvo engine in her. The old motor is in the shed and it apparently had a split head. She has not been sailing yet and not fitted out with only the mast and boom with all the wires only.
And the rudder bearings arrived this week, thank you Coley.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 June 2015 : 5:43:40 PM
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While the weather has impeded the completion of the re-rigging job on the Hagar's mast, we are assured that this week should see the job finished and the mast back in the boat for the weekend. Weasel is apparently only awaiting a bit of calm so that he can lower the mast into the boat. Rod tells me that the new luff track is on and will make the mast stiffer. I do not know if that is good or bad while Weasel will alter the lower stay positions which will also even up the bend and help improve our speed and pointing ability which have always been uneven.
We have yet to book the Hagar in for her annual hauling out around at the Spit and it is then that we will have the new rudder bearings installed. We now have three new ones which should see her through for the next twenty or thirty years. We have had the Hagar for just over ten years now and this is the first time that we are replacing the rudder bearings.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2015 : 10:01:52 AM
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The Hagar now has her mast back in her and Rod reports that she is looking really good. I went down to visit and pay for the work conducted by Blue Peter Rigging, Weasel (Peter Long) and got a full rundown on what he found and the work conducted.
He found that the mast was out-of-alignment tilted to one side and with the foot of the mast also not straight.
He also found that the shroud SS channel base fittings were uneven. He has fixed it all up and it should be now even with the mast base strongly fixed to the deck fitting and should no longer twist.
He also moved the shrouds and lowers so that the mast will have less lay-off as well as having replaced the old luff track on the mast which had been gaping in several places.
This he explained was caused when the mast was bent backwards it was gaping and wherever there was pressure from the cylindrically shaped old mast slides attached to the main luff. Over time this caused the track to open. The new luff track has a wide flat slide and will not gape. The problem now will be that the mast will not bend as much fore and aft and he warned that we will not only have to have the installation of differently shaped new slides, it will also require the luff round to be reaccessed and re-cut.
He has also re-organized the Baby Stay with the control line coming back to one of the deck winches.
This weekend we will be installing a deck clutch for the Baby Stay as well as mounting the new display panel for the new wind speed and direction instrument and hopefully connecting up all the associated cabling. With luck we might go for a test sail and see how the rig looks with a jib. The mainsail will require to be looked at by our sail maker.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 29 June 2015 : 7:14:30 PM
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Our working weekend went well aboard the Hagar and Rod announced that we had exceeded the planed work list. All of the wiring installation of the old and new instruments went well with the Raymarine wind speed and direction instrument working well. We have only one hole in the cabin ceiling to seal up. We found that while down aft there are two ceilings where the cabin top dips, while forward of the dip there are three ceilings and this has been causing all sorts of problems with the wires as well as water which gets into the ceiling. It is a really bad design.
On Saturday we also re-setup all of the ropes control lines and halliards as well as the boom and also installed an additional deck clutch for the baby-stay release and fixing sheet. This sheet goes to the port side cabin winch. When released the baby stay automatically come back to the mast on a shock cord. We tested the baby stay and back stay which work together and we can still bend the mast to what it was before but more efficiently.
The rigger had stated that the mast would not bend as much as it had but we found this to be incorrect and will not require the mainsail luff round to be re-cut.
We now plan to clean-up the inside of the boat and finish the cabin ceiling and have the last opening to be closed and sealed.
We will also be taking out the Rigger out for a tune-up trail sail in the next few weeks.
The mast and rig look very good with the mast base now firmly fixed and with the main and lower stays almost in-line, which the rigger says will stiffen the rig.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 06 July 2015 : 4:53:24 PM
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On Sunday Rod & myself went down to the Hagar. We fixed and sealed all of the ceiling holes which gives us access to all of the deck fittings. The ceiling is now sealed and we went to the trouble of sealing up the gaps between the two lower ceiling skins which we hope will stop rainwater getting into the boat and that it will run out through the designed vents.
We also hosted the main sail having had the sail maker install new "T" slides on the luff to go into the new mast luff track. It fits well and the main looks good and should not require to be re-cut. Not a lot done but essential stuff which had to be done.
We are now trying to organize a booking slot in August to have the boat lifted out around Middle Harbour where we will anti foul her as well as having the shipwright pull out the rudder and check that all is OK and installing the three new rudder bearings.
In the meantime we will continue to chip away at the old deck and cockpit paint and hopefully get the topsides all re-painted before Christmas.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 18 July 2015 : 4:20:23 PM
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This week Rod rang and announced that we should attempt to test our new hooker diving equipment, that of course means I'm the bunny diving in the cold harbour, and he will be pushing me in, dont-we-know?
As I sit here on Saturday afternoon watching the fog, gloom and driving rain from my window overlooking the Manly district and harbour, I think that I'll just have another rum and coke and think about watching the rugby. To hell with the slime and coral of the Hagar. Summer is not far away?
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 11 August 2015 : 04:56:00 AM
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While the Hagar was slated to go up on the Middle Harbour hard stand for her annual cleaning and re-painting it has been postponed due to the marina being over-booked and we will go up the last week in August, we hope?
This past weekend we spent most of the time at home but got some work done on the NHSC shed as well as a little bit of work on the Hagar and took her out for a steam around the harbour to clean the bottom and turn the engine over. The Hagar is going very well. We are planing to do some work this coming weekend.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 29 August 2015 : 6:32:18 PM
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I received a mid-week message from Rod that the Hagar should be going up on the Middle-Harbour hard stand this Friday and so it happened and Hagar went up around midday. She was in very good condition underwater and we put this down to the reduction of anodes, having taken another one off last year.
This morning the four owners tuned up around 8am and we put in a big days work. Also present was our shipwright and we were watched as he removed the rudder and the three bearings. He found that the rudder had been out-of-alignment with the bottom gudgion being to far foward which has caused the middle and lower bearing to have worn out and there was slap and wobble in the rudder post as well as the lower gudgion. The shipwright used some interesting tools to remove the old bearings and he said that he thought the top and middle ones were original and the lower one was different and had been replaced at some time. However there were not too many dramas and he installed the new bearings and set the lower gudgion further aft from where it had been and packed out the gap with a slot of aluminium and used a special epoxy glue filler to fill in the packing. The three original bolts were re-set into their original holes with sikaflex and at the end of the day everything was as tight as and we look forward to doing it again in ten or more years time.
At the days end we had a coat of undercoat and a coat of antifoul from the prop forward and will be able to sand and paint the rest tomorrow. Ian & Andy also sanded and varnished all the external timberwork as well as much of the downstairs. The upper sides were also acid washed and the stains and rub marks mainly removed. This was finished off with a wax and buff.
We were to have the upper sides of the hull tuched-up by a painter but he declined the job saying that it needs a full paint-job.
Tomorrow should see us finish off most of the assigned work.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 01 September 2015 : 06:17:53 AM
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Sunday morning saw the full owners crew again hard at work and we had another huge days work with the weather really good. I finished off the aft section of the boat scraping and sanding and then put on a coat of primer/undercoat. After it had dried I commenced applying two coats of anti-foul. Rod finished washing the topsides of the hull and continued with polishing and wax-buffing the sides. Andy and Ian applied two coats of varnish to the inside timber work and the boat is stating to shine inside.
At the day's end and all the tasks completed we finished and packed up around 3pm.
Monday morning the boat went back into the harbour and Rod motored her back to the mooring in North Harbour.
While Rod was eager to race in the Sydney Amateurs Lion Island Race next Saturday it will not be happening due to mixed commitments.
The opening Race for the North Harbour season is the Following Sunday the 13th of September.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 December 2015 : 05:49:13 AM
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Well the never ending maintenance work on the Hagar continues and Rod is forever finding new jobs as well experimenting with new "goo-fast" ideas. We have been getting better at releasing the baby-stay in the go-about tacks and it has certainly increased our tack times. Last weekend we took off the old traveler system and installed a new set of blocks which we re-positioned and replaced the old and worn ropes. It appears to work very efficiently and Rod reports that it was far more efficient when racing last Thursday night. It is easy now to release and pull the boom to windward seated under load which was previously very difficult even when standing up.
We have yet to trial our racing sails on the new mast set-up and we never got the rigger out on the boat.
Rod is looking at bringing aboard his son and two your skiff crew-members for the coming nationals.
I am currently awaiting my lift to the airport for our holiday to the Maldives. Back in two weeks.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 07 January 2016 : 08:31:06 AM
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We came back from the Maldives last Saturday and straight back to work. Rod has been as busy as a beaver preparing the Hagar for the Nationals. And he reports that the boat is ready to go.
It will need to be as the weather is looking to be be light and with the races at Drummoyne it well could be a drifter series after all the bad weather and there will be currents and a lot a crap in the water due to the rainfall run-off.
I still do not know who will be sailing with us at this stage only that I will be diving on the boat tomorrow afternoon and motoring up the river tomorrow evening.
Looking forward to having a sail as the last sail was to steer a catamaran in the lagoon at Rangowie in the Maldives last week.
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