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Topic: Race Results Service...
Posted By: Scorpio
Subject: Race Results Service...
Date Posted: 18 April 2007 at 23:42

Our Hanse 342, Scorpio, has been entered in the 2007 Royal Southampton Double Handed series in which the crew is limited to two (plus the autohelm).

A couple of people on here asked for results to be posted...
 
The first race of the series was a "round the cans" race in the Solent which was raced in very light airs (wind never above 9 knots) last Saturday.  I am pleased to say that we won our class!  This is despite the fact that I usually hate sailing in light airs.  A full race report can be found http://www.rsyc.org.uk/club/clubspringdouble1.htm - here .    We beat a Westerly GK33 into second place and a Maxi 1100 into third.  Despite being the slowest boat by handicap in the class we were only 24 seconds away from also taking line honours which went to the GK33.
 
Scorpio is a standard Hanse 342 with a self tacking jib (no genoa) and a Sanders Sails asymmetric spinnaker.  We are very pleased to have won on our first double-handed outing, especially as over the three previous years racing my old boat in the same series, the best we ever achieved was a second.
 
For other people with new boats, get your rig tuned - it definitely makes a difference.  Scorpio was delivered just before Christmas and has done about 150NM.  On advice from Hanse UK about new rigging stretching, I had the rig tuned the day before the race.  The rigger put about 7 turns on the lowers each side, six on the intermediates and 5 on the caps to get the mast set up right and the tension correct.
 
The next races in the series are over the first weekend of May when we have two longer races, from the Solent to Weymouth and back again - about 45NM each way.
 
Ed


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Ed Essery
Scorpio GBR 9824T
Hanse 342#465 - Solent Based



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Posted By: Abstinenz
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 07:14
Hi Ed,
Congratulations with the victory. Great to hear Smile

We have tuned the rig as follows and hope it's ok when we enter our first race with Abstinenz in two weeks:

Lower: 15 % of wirebreakeage
Intermediate: 15 % of wb
Caps: 18 % of wb
 
/Steen   


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Hanse 342#436


Posted By: Druid
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 10:45
Ed,
 
Great news!
 
Very well done on your first race - you must be very pleased Clap Please keep us all up-to-date with your progress through the season.
 
Good luck
Dan.


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Druid - 342#555


Posted By: Johan Hackman
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 14:55
Well done, Ed! Congrats to you!

Johan

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Posted By: Johan Hackman
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 14:57
Originally posted by Abstinenz Abstinenz wrote:

Hi Ed,
Congratulations with the victory. Great to hear [IMG]http://www.myhanse.com/smileys/smiley1.gif" height="17" width="17" align="absmiddle" alt="Smile" />We have tuned the rig as follows and hope it's ok when we enter our first race with Abstinenz in two weeks:Lower: 15 % of wirebreakeage

Intermediate: 15 % of wb

Caps: 18 % of wb 

/Steen   


Steen, did you use a guage when tuning the rig? I would be interested to hear if the tuning changes with time, let's say if you measured the tension in a few weeks time?

Johan

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Posted By: Abstinenz
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 15:30

Johan,

I use a guage and will come back with a report in about a month or so.
 
 
/Steen


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Hanse 342#436


Posted By: Abstinenz
Date Posted: 02 May 2007 at 10:44
Hi.

Yesterday Abstinez entered the first race of 17 in our local serie. Mentally ready we went out to do our utmost. We did a fair start and tacked very nicely with our new 130% kevlar genua (Quantum X-Fusion 13). The windforce was only about 5-7 knots. We came first in our group to the first mark, then had som problems hoisting the asymm. spinnaker (Quantum Vision 3), but was still marginally in front after the third mark. Then the wind dropped halfway the next upwind leg and unfortunately we did not get wind before our competitors. So we came in last in our group and only did an overall place as no. 38 of 44 in corr. time.
 
The good thing was, that our boatspeed upwind was superior and the new Spinlock spinnakerblocks (BRS 63) did there job.  

/Steen & Anne
  342 # 436
         


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Hanse 342#436


Posted By: Alex Faber
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 22:34
Congratulations Ed!

In the past I downloaded an exremely informative book about rigging and tuning from the Selden website. Unfortunately now I cannot find the link anymore on their site. Otherwise I would have posted it here. Maybe others are better in searching on websites? Forum members that are interested to receive it, are invited to send me a PM with their e-mail address.


Posted By: Rubato
Date Posted: 12 May 2007 at 15:33
Alex,
This topic is of big interest to me as I am trying to get my 400 rig set up properly for racing. At the moment, there is far too much forestay sag. I did a quick search on the web using your hint above (Selden) and came up with this tuning guide. It looks very good. Is it the one you saw previously?
 
http://www.riggingandsails.com/pdf/selden-tuning.pdf - http://www.riggingandsails.com/pdf/selden-tuning.pdf
 
I'm going to start a separate topic on rig tuning and see what folks have to say.
 
Steve


Posted By: Alex Faber
Date Posted: 12 May 2007 at 20:46
Yes, this is the publication I meant.
Obviously you are better in finding the right link on a website.


Posted By: Scorpio
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 14:08
Well it's come to the end of the Royal Southampton Double Handed Series and, overall, we are pleased with result: 
 
Spring Double* (round the cans): 1st - a light airs race with a shortened course
Weymouth Double Leg 1 (Solent to Weymouth): 8th - Down wind light airs
Weymouth Double Leg 2 (Weymouth to Solent): 8th - Direct down wind all the way - medium/heavy
Cherbourg Double (Solent to Cherbourg): 3rd - Medium reach decreasing - we ripped our Asymmetric early on before wind dropped and really needed it later Cry
Island Double* (Round the Isle of Wight): 4th - Light/Medium airs
Brixham Double (Solent to Brixham): DNF - Light airs: insufficient time to get there and back
Nab Double* (Solent to Nab Tower and back): 1st - Upwind light airs - course shortened at Nab
Autumn Double*: (round the cans): 8th - Very light airs with lots of holes and a tidal gate at East Bramble; badly messed up start
 
We raced in RSYC Club Class (as opposed to IRC which is full of J-Boats with very high tech sails).  Across the whole Series we had two discards, taking these out we were second in class overall by one point behind a mini Transat.  We beat a Bavaria 44 into 3rd, a Dufour 44 into 4th, a Westerly GK33 into 5th, a Maxi 1100 into 6th and a Sun Odyssey 45 into 7th.
 
There is a separate prize for the Inshore Series - the four races marked with an asterisk with no discard.  In this we won our class by six points overall.
 
In summary we are very satisfied with Scorpio and believe she is pretty competitive.  We are going to get a full symmetric spinnaker for next season to help our down wind performance.  I just hope that this and our result do not impact our handicap too much.
 
Ed


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Ed Essery
Scorpio GBR 9824T
Hanse 342#465 - Solent Based


Posted By: 1REO
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 21:38
Congrats! Great results, good to see the boat actually can win races, only thing is I can no longer blame the boat when the results are bad

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Brg
REO



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