| Author |
 Topic  |
|
Robert Simmons
Helmsman
Australia
420 Posts |
 Posted - 27 October 2010 : 09:53:46 AM
|
...CB....?
Rob |
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.
|
 |
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 27 October 2010 : 3:49:27 PM
|
Club Bully......Every self respecting club, school or institution should have it's own "CB". Being bullied is one of life's steps in charactor building, dontyouknow. And we have our own!
Chris. |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 29 October 2010 : 8:25:31 PM
|
Well tonight saw the Hagar racing in the Manly Twilghter. We had been severely handicaped and started well back in the field. It was cool with overcast and there was a threatening storm developing over the city in the distance. The breeze was about 5 to 10 knots and never got up to the forecast 15 knots. We went reasonably well and came about midway in the fleet and were past by practically no boats. We were additionally handicaped because somewon forgot to bring the tiller extension and I had to steer from the cockpit and could not see the water in front of us or all the jib woolies.
One night we might give them a fright and sport or racing sails which we only use at the nationals.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 08 November 2010 : 2:37:08 PM
|
Yesterday's race at North Harbour was the annual Islands Race from Manly to the Islets of Drummoyne and no doubt the Drummoyne boys would have been aware of our presnece as we charged off the wind though their starting line.
After about four hours of tight racing the Dumeresque beat us over the line by four seconds. However it was Old David in his Carmen 31 which won on handicap. We were trying out our new number two jib and there are some obvious teething problems with sheeting angles. We were underpowered for a lot of the race as well, while the Dumeresque were useing their racing sails. Lots of room for improvement in sails and helming as well as crew work.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 21 November 2010 : 6:19:47 PM
|
Friday saw Andy at the helm of the Hagar for the first time for many moons. The wind was in the south east and varied from 5 to 15 with gusts reported to 20 knots at times. We continued to test our new number two jib and finished mid-fleet.
Sunday saw Rod at the helm in a Club Race and the Dumeresque boys did not appear. So it was old Daivid in his 31 foot Carmen as well as a new interloaper in his 30 foot brand new sports boat as well as ourselves fighting it out on the old course in a nice north easterly.
The sports boat neither started or finished but showed enough boatspeed to may us look pedestian. Old David who we gave a 30 minite start gifted us the race on the finish line when he missed a mark and we won on default as he was doing 360's.
We tested a new "old-kite", which I call a code zero and Rod calls a screetcher. It is a kite which is set on the bull horns at the bow and is used as a singe luff kite. While it fitted surprisingly well and performed OK as well as jybing really well in the light when we had it up on the first two runs. However it is old and the cloth is stretched, old and soft. It also has a linited angle of use and a bigger normal kite should be more versotile and have a larger range of use.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 29 November 2010 : 08:42:27 AM
|
There was no Sunday race at North Harbour SC on Sunday last, but we did race in the Friday night twilighter at Manly. It was light and a good time to test out a new set of rags. Unfortunately the club set a very poor race with no relationship to the wind and it was quite dangerous. We cut back across the fleet three times in a short series of windward beats on one tack, then a short reach across the top and on one tack and a run to the bottom mark. The problem came towards the end then there was a figure eight in the course which saw the 30 boats plus strong fleet cross itself on at least three times.
We finished quite well in the top quarter of the fleet and the new light-weight sails performed credibly for a first time out.
Chris.
|
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 04 December 2010 : 08:54:20 AM
|
Last night at Manly saw a good north easterly fizzle out as the western storms approached Sydney. The storm did not get us and we finished in a light nor-easterly. We were still trying our new set of lightweight sails and went really well finishing a long NE course which we have never done well in before. We were about fifth across the line with Rod at the helm and he out-foxed a couple of the bigger boats on the line, which was satisfying.
The new light-weight jib needs to be raised off the deck from the clew by about four inches of more which will give us some sheeting angle, as we were just pulling the sheet along the foot.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 07 December 2010 : 08:36:24 AM
|
Well we are really happy with the set of sails which we picked up from Xhilerate, a sail-maker from Gosford who is selling up to go overseas. Graham McPherson put us onto him and thank you Graham.
Friday saw us do well with the sails and yesterday we got the results and was surprised to see that we were third across the line. For some reason they scrubbed the Adams 10 which was clearly in front of us.
Again on Sunday after adjusting the jib height by raising it up by an inch and a half we flew in the light easterly. The boat seems to get up to it's hull speed much quicker than the old sails and holds it's speed longer. After lapping the fleet most of the opposition spat their dummies with an acute dose of Hagar Syndrome and went home early.
So these sails go into the cotton wool until the nationals.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2010 : 1:14:02 PM
|
There was no race at North Harbour on Sunday this weekend past and Friday night saw Rod, Andy, Pete and John off the Dumeresque racing in the Manly twilighter. I was caught up in some business entertaining which happens only occasionaly. The boys were sailing with the penalty of four minutes from last weeks third on handicap after adjustmentd by the handicapper from Manly. If you win you are penalised ten minutes! While there are six courses and there appears to be no relationship to the wind angle or strength. And the lengths of each course is different and it is a handicap start. In other Clubs on the harbour in which I've raced twilighter races without spinakers they are scratch starts, the course is the same every race unless it is shortened and the handicaps are adjusted by a software program, which eliminaates mistakes and favoritism.
Anyway the boys were mid-fleet and take back a minute of handicap for the next race.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 21 December 2010 : 3:11:43 PM
|
Last Sunday's race at North Harbour saw a nice north westerly which was patchy at times but filled in as the day went on and was blowing up to 20 knots later. We were not happy with the boats performance and especially with the new number 2 headsail. We were not pointing and going sideways. We have been persisting with this sail without any joy. Dumeresque did us over the line by about 3/4 of a minute and David in his Carmen 31 was catching us as the breeze strenghtened. The mid section of the luff was collapsing and closing up the leach so it went back to it's maker on Monday. The new big kite was OK and we were quick in the first run which was about 10 to 12 knots but used the old number one on the second run and was almost blown down near Shark Island with a few nice westerly bullets.
Chris. |
|
|
|
4Seasons
Helmsman
723 Posts |
Posted - 21 December 2010 : 8:25:07 PM
|
| Chris, When was there ever anything nice about westerly bullets ? we have a member here who insists that the only good thing that came out of the west wsa John Wane!!!Sorry Rob....EH |
|
|
|
Robert Simmons
Helmsman
Australia
420 Posts |
Posted - 22 December 2010 : 10:45:47 AM
|
No offence taken Eric. Season's greetings to you and the Gosford crew.
Rob |
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.
|
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 22 December 2010 : 1:43:59 PM
|
Well there Eric, I think that I'd prefer sailing an intersting westerly than an intersting easterly. Easterlies are mainly soft and tend to die while westerlies tend to build up and you can get same good rides out of one. It all depends upon how well ones boat is set-up. One can always forget the poor easterly drifters, but one always remembers the rip-roaring rides and knock-downs of the best westerlies.
Chris. |
|
|
|
4Seasons
Helmsman
723 Posts |
Posted - 22 December 2010 : 8:38:35 PM
|
| In favourable conditions i can squeeze about 6knots under power in 4Seasons, last sunday the return trip to the club in waves and headwinds my poor little diesel was pushing @#%^#$& uphill to reach to 2 to 3k....EH. |
|
|
|
4Seasons
Helmsman
723 Posts |
Posted - 22 December 2010 : 8:52:02 PM
|
| Rob,I'm in the middle of selling out to move into something smaller and i hope to finish up with piles(of money) i then may take a trip to the west to learn how the real sailors do it,i've not been over there before...EH |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 December 2010 : 08:25:57 AM
|
Quote,".....i hope to finish up with piles".
Be careful for what you hope and wish for Eric, but I'm sure that the good doctor can guide you safely through the dangerous channel, dontyouknow!
Have a happy Christmas.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Robert Simmons
Helmsman
Australia
420 Posts |
Posted - 23 December 2010 : 08:53:41 AM
|
Best of luck to Eric, you know where to find me.
Rob |
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.
|
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 30 December 2010 : 11:15:08 AM
|
Late yesterday Rod along with his son Micheal & myself went out in the Hagar to test the re-cut number two head sail. It was a great north easterly breeze and perfect for testing the new number 2.
All went well and the jib seemed to be OK with the luff flattened and the boll robe eased out.
As we were steaming out from the Marina work berth where they had pick me up we spied a new Endeavour yacht and assumed it was a new E27 in our bay. However as we got closer we recognized her as the E28 Scotch Mist from Lake Macquarie. We hailed the skipper and had a quick chat with him and no, he came down cruising for the Sydney to Hobart and New Year fireworks before heading home next week.
It is a pity because he was quite competitive up at the lake two years ago and would be good at the Bay in two weeks time.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 08 January 2011 : 04:46:21 AM
|
We missed last nights twilighter at Manly due to illness to one of our crews family. However we will be racing this Sunday at North Harbour and this will be the last opportunity to shake out the cobwebs and have most of the racing crew together. The boat and sails are as ready as they have ever been and we are pleased with this years preparation of the Hagar with only a scrubbing required of the bottome. Rod plans to sail her down to the Bay late next week, either Wednesday or Thursday.
Chris. |
|
|
|
Colin Cole
Helmsman
Australia
676 Posts |
Posted - 09 January 2011 : 06:54:51 AM
|
| will you require a coal berth or a cole berth? :) |
|
|
|
Topic |
|
SAILING REPORTS ON '30's
