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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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 Posted - 13 February 2013 : 08:36:09 AM
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Last Friday night saw another good north-easterly breeze at Manly and with a full crew we had the old Hagar moving well. Most of the crew were casuals with only Rod & myself the regulars. The breeze was from 18 to 24 knots and with some stronger gusts. While many of the yachts were reefed we went with the full main and a number two jib which was the correct selection for us. We were coming second for most of the last work but got swamped with the big boats at the finish to be 10th over the line. A check of the results the next morning showed that were were 7th with two of the 40's penalized for being too early and one boat blown out for an altercation on the start. A good result in a long race-big breeze. There was no race at North Harbour on Sunday and we race next Sunday.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 19 February 2013 : 1:14:58 PM
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Last weekend saw the Hagar racing in the Friday night twilighter, but with a very light breeze we could only manage to finish in the back of the fleet.
On Saturday and Sunday, Old Pete and myself went off-shore race in the 42 foot Marloo to Pittwater on Saturday and the return race on Sunday. In light conditions we got a 4th going up and a 3rd on the return which was very good as the conditions favored the lightweights.
Sunday also say the Hagar out with a stand in crew and they finished second behind the Dumerque.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 05 March 2013 : 12:34:41 PM
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Well the Hagar has seen a bit of action over the past few weeks. Although we have not been racing in the last two Friday nighters at Manly due to the cancellation of races and bad weather.
However one of the owners, Ian Taylor raced the Hagar with a couple of his dentist mates in the annual dentist's regatta. He won the event on both scratch and handicap and this was reflected in the condition of the boat when Rod & I went aboard her on Sunday. The boys had a great after race celebration at Store Beach and the boat was inappropriately secured. The tiller was tied down with the mainsail halliard end and there were bird scarers and tie downs all all over the place and we will be pulling empty bottles and cans out of all the hidy holes fro weeks to come, dontweknow?
A good race on Sunday in a 15 to 20 knot south easterly. We gifted the race to the Dumeresq through poor tactics and tacking.
However the Hagar and the Dumeresq will be coming down to Botany Bay on Friday morning, and old Pete and myself will join the boys on Saturday morning. Will you be there to shout a beer Eric?
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 21 March 2013 : 03:47:19 AM
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Last Sunday the Hagar was again in action down the harbour at the Small Yacht Regatta being hosted at the RPEYC. I was at home in bed with the flu and the boys sailed four-up.
The conditions were very strong with 20 to 30 knot southerly winds. The Hagar missed the first race due to the condition in the "sound" which saw big seas combined with the heavy winds. They also had to pick up Andy from the RPEYC wharf. They then won races two and three. The final races will be held this coming Sunday out of the RPEYC.
The Dumeresq was a no-show and I have no other information at this time, but should obtain all the results next weekend.
Our Friday night twilighter series out of the Manly YC finished last Friday night and Rod raced with his brother and second sting crew. They managed to come in 13th over the line. The final result saw us come 14th overall and considering that we did not start or finish in seven races it was a fair result.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 25 March 2013 : 5:30:39 PM
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Well yesterday we sailed the second Sunday at the RPEYC small yacht regatta. It was a day of mixed light conditions and we started the first of two short races in drifting westerly conditions. This was not helped by the laying of the top rounding mark near Bradley Head and with all of the motor traffic and strong outgoing tide. The fleet was spread out and mainly about Bradly's head when an oil tanker came around the headland going upstream and right through our fleet. The race was abandoned and we hung around awaiting a change in the wind. A light north easterly eventually came in and we then completed two very short windward return races. We came second and third over the line in the mixed fleet of Clansmen, J24's, Folk-boats as well as a second division of Hood 23's. Hagar was the only Endeavour yacht in attendance. Most embarrassing, dontweknow!
The afternoon race was fiasco with all but the local Hood 23's missing the start. We were moving towards the start line and realized that they had started already. There had been no starter, sound signal, flags or radio notification that we could discern. However we got away and spent the rest of the long race casing down the leading Hoods, all but three we caught before the race was shortened.
We picked up a trophy as the winning Endeavour.
Hope to see more of you chaps next year at these events. It was a well run event in difficult conditions.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 30 March 2013 : 07:13:42 AM
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Late last night Rod & I placed the Hagar back on her mooring in North Harbour after returning from Pittwater. We had raced with the Amateurs Yacht Club in there annual Bob Brown (sic) race from Clark Island to the Basin. From the start we made a bad sail call choosing the number two and while it was a bit fresh going out the harbor the breeze steadily weakened and before Long Reef we went up to the heavy number one jib. This quickly paid off as we reeled in and passed the boat in front. We were the smallest yacht in the fleet of about 16 starters.
The race then turned into into a two boat duel as we exchanged positions with the "Lunacy" and were alongside them when the breeze dropped right out at the entrance of Pittwater under Barenjoey light.
The Southerly then slowly came in with rain and with a bit of pressure we slipped away from Lunacy but again were becalmed about 200 meters from the finish in the dark as the 2030 hours finish time expired.
We then motored into the basin, picked up a mooring and had a few drinks with a light super, having rigged the Hagar for sleeping and retired for the night.
We we up late after a good night sleep and then went ashore in our tender and had a BBQ brunch before motoring up to the Keys to drop off our third crew member. At this time the wind was piping in from the south and Rod & I rigged her with a storm tri-sail and number three jib. We sailed out of Pittwater around 2.30pm and motor sailed out to sea. We gave up with the sails just before Long Reef and motored the rest of the way home getting in around 8.30pm.
The past month has seen the Hagar rack up a lot of races and sea miles, without breakages or complaints and this year she is 40 years since being launched.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 10 September 2013 : 07:03:31 AM
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Well the Hagars 2013/2014 season commenced last Saturday the 7th and with light conditions forecast the Amateurs Yacht Club Committee decided not to go up to Lion Island and set the inside harbour coarse. Well this did not sit well with a couple of the locals who told the Committee what they thought and with three yachts starting and going off to Lion Island in their own private division. I still do not know how they went with the rest of us drifting around the harbour all day. We got a very good start and were drifting along nicely until we hit the pile-up rounding Shark Island for the first time. We went around in circles there for two hours and finally escaped and got up to the Sound and were met by the committee boat who finished us on the run.
We came seventh with one boat behind us and around nine retirements in our second division. We finished around 3.30pm which gave us time to get back to the club for the odd refreshing ale and home in time to see kevin07 get his bottom spanked.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 30 September 2013 : 6:30:20 PM
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Yesterday saw our Clubs opening race for the 2013-2017 racing season. All reports were that there would be a poor attendance due to the cool weather and school holidays as well as one yacht sill on the hard stand being mended. However we were pleased to see six starters and although the conditions were very light we had a good sail. Hagar was left behind and came third in division one out of four but was close behind the quick lightweights on handicap. It was a good shakedown race with many of the crew having not raced since last season and with one new boy with me on the bow.
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4Seasons
Helmsman
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Posted - 02 October 2013 : 8:46:20 PM
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 05 October 2013 : 07:15:51 AM
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Speak Ecca, cause copey listens, dontyaknow?
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 18 October 2013 : 7:07:30 PM
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Well there is not much to report on the E30 scene. After last weekends spectacular winds and racing, this week we have a lay week, that is to say that for about every second weekend there is no race at North Harbour. The following week we will again be racing and the Manly Friday night twi-lighters commence at the end of the month.
This weekend it is back to the grind of working on the new portion of our house deck. I have been chipping away replacing all the old decks which surrounds the eastern side of our home for about four years. This last part is outside our bedroom and I've removed an old winder and installed and triple sliding alloy door set as well as replacing most of the outer wall timber paneling. It has all recieved about four coats of paint and looks great. Just the decking timber to be sanded and sealed and we will be looking at a new glass and alloy pool fence to keep the kiddies out.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 30 October 2013 : 7:35:15 PM
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Last Sunday saw myself without the core of our crew, Rod, John and Pete were all away. However Andy, one of the owners was a starter and our newest crew member, Ziggy was also aboard. Thankfully the breeze was kinder than the last race with a light northeasterly and while we were reasonably competitive we lacked the experience of the old hands and Andy has not steered the boat in over a year.
We have not started racing with Manly YC on Friday nights as yet with the re-building of the Club's dinghy storage racks half rebuilt last Friday.
This coming Sunday will see us racing in the Club's Islands race so we will be seen passing Drummoyne 16 club around lunchtime.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 08 November 2013 : 6:07:02 PM
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And nothing happened!!!!
But it happened suddenly mind you, dontyaknow?
For the past three weeks and including this evening the Hagar for the first time in the several years in which we have raced her, has not been participating in the Friday night Many YC twilighter races. This has been due to crew availability and primarily Rod and myself being tied up with work matters. Also Old Pete has decreed that he will not venture out until the days lengthen and it warms up!
Rod and I will be working on the Hagar tomorrow afternoon, in the rain to fix a number of minor replacements and upgrades.
We do not race at North Harbour until the following weekend.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 November 2013 : 05:35:13 AM
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Last Sunday saw the Hagar come from behind and score it's fist sratch win in Div.#1 for the North Harbour season. We were rigged with a number 2 jib in moderate conditions which eased and could only get past the Dumeresq on the last down-wind run to the finish line. Dumeresq had a number one jib and held us off upwind and we should have changed up to the number one after the first work and run of the race. It was a handicap start race and we were chasing boats all day.
This weekend there is no race at North Harbour and Old Pete and myself are racing in the Marloo (a Jarken 42) up to Pittwater today and a return race on Sunday.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 10 January 2014 : 02:56:53 AM
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It is nice to have the web-site up and running again after it having been off the net for some weeks.
A happy, healthy and prosperous new year to all fro the Crews from North Harbour Sailing Club.
While there have been no North Harbour SC races since last year the next race will be held this weekend and with Rodney away cruising the Pacific with his family we may or may not have a racing crew aboard the Hagar.
Last weekend however saw us sail up to Pittwater and attending the Clansmen Regatta. It was very similar conditions as last year with a moderate North Easterly. We were late for the start and had to work our way through the fleet finishing a close second. Three yachts, including Hagar finished close together with two more further back in the fleet. Unfortunately it was again a non-spinnaker race.
On the way up Rod & I sailed Hagar with the big rig and with an inner small jib which is the second time we have used this sail configuration. It proved to be very effective in the east-south-easterly breeze. Rod and Andy sailed back on Monday in a south easterly.
During the regatta at Pittwater we had long discussions with an old friend of Rod's who is a paint specialist and gave us a lot of good advise on the upcoming deck repainting job scheduled for the Hagar.
The quality of the job all comes down to the preparation and the use of the correct Primers and Undercoats to make all of the layers stick together. For the past couple of years the deck paint has been peeling off in large chunks.
We are looking at a number of major maintenance jobs on the Hagar which include;
1. Re-paint the decks.
2. Repaint the non-skid areas of the deck.
3. Replace the electronic instruments.
4. Re-place the windows,
5. Re-pace the wire rig,
6. Replace the brass hanks on the jibs with a double slide system.
These together represents some major costs so it is expected that it may be spread out over the next two years.
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4Seasons
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Posted - 20 January 2014 : 9:00:17 PM
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| Hi Chris and co im still battling Father time and mother nature having just completed my first ambulace trip for 2014....4 Seasons is for sale and i am toying with the idea of moving into a 24,i would love to move my old friend and find a 24 in time for B/Bay but somehow it might be a case of my head making promises that my body cant keep...there is quite a few sitting around the bay ,3 in our club .must go now ,its time for my warm milk,soft bicky, medications and hot water bottle,some one to tuck me in would be nice...EH |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 January 2014 : 2:20:18 PM
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Good to hear from you Eric. Our news is that Skipper Rod is still away in New Zealand aboard a cruise ship with his misses.
We missed last Sunday's race because we miscalculated the race schedule and I found myself without a crew and this weekend there is no race.
However the other news is from yesterday's race aboard the Marloo with Old Pete and the crew. We had a major port and starboard altercation with a Cole 43. Not nice when big boats come together I can assure you. I was on the bow and saw it all unfold, I stood there and chanted that old pray, " for what we are about to receive, or give, may the Lord make us truly thankful for".
We had been on starboard maneuvering before the start near Shark Island and the Cole was running down wind on port. I called our skipper to go up and we expected the Cole to just pull away a few degrees and go below us. We were calling "starboard" and they did not see us until the last few seconds and changed course towards us and we had nowhere to go and stuck them amidships. There was huge damage to both yachts. As well pulled free the skipper called attention to Old Pete who was doubled up in pain. We took him below and then dropped the sails and steamed into the CYC YC Pond with their medic having jumped on board in the channel. They had called an ambulance and Pete went off to St. Vincents Hospital just after we docked and they had checked him over. Apparently Pete had fallen forward at the moment of impact and fallen onto one of the halliard winches.
Examination of the bow showed a smashed pulpit and well as a huge horizontal gouge just below the for-stay tang which went back about two feet. Thankfully the old Marloo is a well built, tough old yacht and the rig stayed up. We will be missing a lot of racing as well as the Sydney to Botany Bay race on Sunday which we always do well in.
Old Pete has a fractured Sternum and will be out of action for some time and was held over-night by the Doctors at St. Vincent.
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John Robert
Main Sheet Hand
Australia
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Posted - 29 January 2014 : 2:36:58 PM
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| an E24 huh! Whats the exchange rate for a good E24 on an e30? |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 10 April 2014 : 6:01:27 PM
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Q. Whats the exchange rate for a good E24 on an e30?
A. It all depends upon where both yachts are located, ie, the State in which you are exchanging as well as the condition and sailing status of either craft. On a rule of thumb, most E24's are around $5K and the E30's are selling around $24K. But if you value the best of each, say the Dumeresq vs the Hagar it becomes more complicated as both craft have been modified and set up more for racing. I would value the Dumeresq at around $10K and the Hagar @ $35K.
This weekend is the last race on our sailing Club Calender and it is a long passage race to Drummoyne and back to North Harbour.
We may or may not be racing in the Sydney to Pittwater Amateurs SC Race next Thursday. It will depend on the weather. I do not mind a blow especially if it is a southerly, but if it is very wet and cold we will not be going.
Rod and I have been working on the Hagar and on Tuesday Rod had our rigger fix a broken goose neck track which had come away from the mast.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 14 April 2014 : 3:45:45 PM
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This Sunday past saw the final race of the North Harbour sailing season conducted and completed. Unfortunately there were only three starters with the cool wet conditions keeping most away.
In Division one there was the Cavalier and Hagar, while in Division 2 there was only the Space-saver 24. The race started out with an 18 knot southerly which faded as we went south and while we skipped away from the fleet up the harbour to Rose Bay the breeze lightened as we approached the Harbour Bridge and Cavalier caught up to us to the point where we could exchange unpleasantries. However as we approached Drummoyne Cavalier got caught up with a fleet of yachts going in the opposite direction. Going around Snapper Island we dropped our number two jib and exchanged it for the number one. The Cavalier carried a big kite down the short leg and then tried to carry it shy but had to pull it down and we again skipped away reaching eastwards to Clark Island and by this time we had a small but handy lead. We hoisted the old number one kite and had a great sleigh-ride down the harbour to North Head and jibed the kite inside Quarantine to head home. We did well on this leg and finished about twelve minutes in front of the Cavalier.
The results were a bit mixed because while the Space-saver was first home we will pick up the cutlery because we were the only craft to sport and Lady aboard, because it was the annual Ladies Day Race.
It was a good race and we had just about every type of weather with strong wind portions as well as rain squalls and mini fronts. But as we went west we also found drifter conditions and doldrums under many headlands in the lee of the southerly.
Everyone was wet through at the end of the race so that North Harbour with it's pot belly fire burning as well as coffee, beers, tea and sausage sandwiches welcome a the end of five hours out on the water.
It was in fact a very good warm-up for Thursday's offshore to Pittwater with the Amateurs Yacht Club.
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