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Hankø Half Ton Classic Cup 2023
Half a ton, twice the fun.
Main event of the Half Ton Class Europe, organized jointly with Royal Norwegian Yacht Club .
Main trophies & prizes:
• IRC Overall
• IRC Vintage halftonners
• Half Ton True Spirit Trophy
And a lot of special prizes...
Hankø August 12.– 18.
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All crew members must have a valid SailorID and Categorization code at World Sailing when participation at the Hankø Half Ton Classic Cup.
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True Spirit Reigns at the Half Ton Classics Cup
Cathrine Gjerpen Størmer
Kongelig Norsk Seilforening/Royal Norwegian Yacht Club
September 22, 2023
Photos by Trond Teigen – KNS.
On Friday, 19 August 2023, the Bagdad2 team, led by Borre Hekk Paulsen, took the highly coveted Half Ton Classics Cup with a nearly perfect sheet after 10 races.
Sailing a 1985 Berret-Finot design that went through a significant refit by its previous owners, the team left only the long-distance race and one windward-leeward race to her competitors. Two other Norwegian Halftonners, RAMPAGE and KING ONE , completed the podium.
The Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (KNS) and the Half Ton Class of Norway, in close cooperation with the Hankø Yacht Club , organized a perfect event for a total of 33 teams, with 3 teams from Belgium and 1 team from the UK.
The true spirit of the Half Ton Classics Cup reigned all through the race week, especially during the final prizegiving, where a heart-warming ode to and standing ovation for Martin Kamperhaug – the initiator of the Halftonner revival in Norway – received his weight (and more) in champagne, followed by the remittance of the Half Ton True Spirit Trophy. All the teams unanimously chose to award this trophy to the father-mother-daughter-son team aboard HUGIN.
Meanwhile, team CONCORDE won the Corinthian Trophy for being the best team without any professional on board, and the women of MIDNIGHT X won the All Female Team prize.
The atmosphere during the entire week was so good that plans are already being made to return to Hankø for the next edition, perhaps to Marstrand or Sandhamn (SWE) in a few years’ time, when the Baltic Halftonner fleet will be in full force again.
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16 November 2013Silver shamrock iii (holland half tonner).  | | | racing during the 1977 Half Ton Cup (photographer unknown) |
 | | | An unusual sight on an ocean-racing yacht - Harold Cudmore and crew fitting the centreboard to before racing in the 1977 Half Ton Cup | | | | during the 1977 Half Ton Cup (photo DB Yachting Annual) |
| | | climbs out to weather after a start in the 1977 Half Ton Cup, with (3223) to leeward and astern (3426) (photo ) | | | | follows out to a start in the 1977 Half Ton Cup |
 | | | leads the fleet back to port, with and astern | | | | battles her way out of Sydney Harbour in light and choppy conditions at the start of the 1977 Sydney-Hobart race | | | showing good upwind form in the 1980s, possibly with the older Stern mast (photo Peter Cavill)
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 8 comments: She didn't return to Ireland; she went to Queensland where she sailed a Brisbane to Gladstone race or two.  Still in qld Thanks for the update, do you have any recent photos? She returned to Ireland where she had a number of owners. She was ultimately lost when she was caught broadside by a breaking wave and washed up on the rocks at the entrance to Cork Harbour. Her transom is all that survived and it now hangs on the wall of The Ancho ....The Anchor Bar in Crosshaven.  She was owned by John Rickard and was moored at the Sydney Amateurs in Mosman Bay. When John sold her she went to Queensland and he thinks she sank on the reef. She could have been salvaged There is a silver shamrock in Cairns, but it is unclear whether it is I, II or III. I went aboard her yesterday to have a look and took some photos which I am happy to post or send. Hi, this would most likely be Silver Shamrock III. Please feel free to send photos and I will add them to this article - [email protected]  - AMERICA'S CUP
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 in Advance Half Ton Classic Cup at Royal Nieuwpoort Yacht Club starts tomorrow Related Articles Upcoming EventsDesign № 54 1/2 Ton IOR Racing Sloop < Back to all designs RACE RESULTS FARR MAGAZINE GET UPDATES ENVIRONMENT DESIGNS BY LENGTH DESIGNS BY NUMBER VOLVO OCEAN RACE SUPERYACHTS AMERICA'S CUP Designed in 1975, Design No. 54 was detailed for fiberglass construction in New Zealand and Japan, in wood volume production for Bermester of Germany (who also built Design Nos. 51 and 53), and in wood as a stock plan for one off construction. Closely related to Design Nos. 51 and 53 (1 Ton and 1/4 Ton designs) Design No. 54 was developed to be competitive in 1/2 Ton IOR events. This boat is Farr's most popular 1/2 Ton design, with over 50 boats built, and racing/cruising production versions - the Farr 920 - are still being produced. Upstaged in light airs at Grand Prix events by the centerboarders of 1976/77 (Design No. 65), Design 54 is still a fast all around boat accumulating a long string of good performances at club racing level. If it had not been for the centerboard boats taking advantage of the Rule loophole, Design 54 would have been destined for bigger successes at a more international level. Although originally designed as a full blown racer, many have been fitted out with cruising or cruising/racing interiors and form the basis of some good One Design club racing. PHOTOS Click to enlarge. Description 9.140 m/30'30" 7.150 m/23'6" 3.053 m/10'0" 1.588 m/5'3" 866 Kg/1,909 Lbs 2220 Kg/4,894 Lbs Brochure [PDF] > Farr Yacht Design 100 Severn Avenue, Suite 101 Annapolis, MD 21403 © 2018 You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience.  Early mini and Half TonnersDesign number: 14 year: 1977. Despite enjoying his work at YACHTS AND YACHTING magazine what Humphreys really wanted to do was design. After three years on the full-time payroll he left to set up his design business, but with no imminent commercial viability as such he kept his column with Y&Y and furthermore freelanced for other overseas yachting magazines. He also carried out a huge amount of rating consultancy work, advising owners on the International Offshore Rule IOR and drawing up modifications for their boats. This still did not seem to leave very much time for his own design work, but by the mid-Seventies he was beginning to see some opportunities. In this period he designed a couple of Mini Tonners and a pair of Half Tonners, all of them essentially owner-build projects (it used to happen a great deal in those days). The Mini Tonner SHH-AM, for example, was built in London mews garage by owner Paul Howard (she was placed best British boat in the Mini Ton worlds in La Rochelle in 1977), while the Conquest 23 Mini Tonner was built as a production boat by Peter Lloyd and his son-in-law Clive Phippard under the banner of CK Marine of Weymouth. Wally and Pat Naismith built the Half Tonner Solan Goose themselves of cold moulded cedar under the inspiration of the Gougeon’s excellent book on their WEST system, while Nick Palmer built Humbug of foam sandwich construction. There was an explosion of Half Ton interest at the time with over 50 boats competing in the British trials in 1977 just to qualify for the Half Ton worlds. Unfortunately, neither Solan Goose nor Humbug made the grade. Solan Goose was later sailed across the Atlantic by Bob Salmon and she is believed to be in Antigua now.  | | | | | |
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Royal Norwegian Yacht Club and Half Ton Class Norway look forward to welcoming all sailors for a fantastic week at Hankø. The Hankø Half Ton Classics Cup marks the 40 years reunion of the world championship at Hankø in 1983. 40+ boats are already registered with crews from Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Englandv and Belgium.
The 13th Half Ton Classics Cup is organized by the Half Ton Class Norway, the Hankø Yacht Club and the K.N.S. (the Royal Norwegian Sailing authority) and supported by the Half Ton Class Europe. This is exactly 40 years after the illustrious Half Ton Cup was organized in Hankø in 1983.
Way back in the 70's and the 80's the IOR racing rule produced exciting racing in various classes, with the Half Ton Class as very probably one of the most emblematic ones.
The Royal Norwegian Sailing Union (KNS) and the Hankø Yacht Club, in close cooperation with the Half Ton Class Norway, have organized a perfect event for a total of 33 teams, amongst which three teams from Belgium and one team from the UK. The Half Ton 'true spirit' reigned all along the race week.
The true spirit of the Half Ton Classics Cup reigned all through the race week, especially during the final prizegiving, where a heart-warming ode to and standing ovation for Martin Kamperhaug - the initiator of the Halftonner revival in Norway - received his weight (and more) in champagne, followed by the remittance of the Half Ton True Spirit Trophy. All the teams unanimously chose to ...
Half Ton Class Europe, Nieuwpoort, Belgium. 2,609 likes · 710 talking about this. Half a Ton, Twice the Fun
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The Nicholson half-tonner was designed by Ron Holland in 1976 to the Half Ton Cup IOR rule, and early boats had considerable racing success.
Half Tonner. Since 2004 The Half Ton Class Europe is guiding the revival of the former IOR half tonners. Half tonners are 9m long sailing vessels, build to the IOR rating rules from 1967 to 1992. A boat is considered as a 'half tonner' if it fulfills the following requirements: • if no alterations have been made to the hull of the boat ...
Silver Shamrock III (Holland Half Tonner) Silver Shamrock III was Ron Holland's first centreboard yacht, designed for the 1977 Half Ton Cup which was held in Sydney just before the Southern Cross Cup series of the same year. Given the pedigree of its designer and crew, which included Harold Cudmore and Butch Dalrymple-Smith, the tiger-striped ...
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Closely related to Design Nos. 51 and 53 (1 Ton and 1/4 Ton designs) Design No. 54 was developed to be competitive in 1/2 Ton IOR events. This boat is Farr's most popular 1/2 Ton design, with over 50 boats built, and racing/cruising production versions - the Farr 920 - are still being produced.
A limited edition, semi-custom 1/2 ton racer with flush deck and stripped interior. First boat was 'SuperStar', (Hans Fogh, 7th at 1/2 ton cup, 1976, Trieste). C&C 29 (1977) is thought to be based on this design.
The Half Ton Class hasn't made a resurgence in North America as it has in Europe. Owl's prototype "Toy Boat" won Boat of the Year in Chicago, with a perfect score and won the Half Ton North Americans twice in early 1980's. Specifications: LOA 29.6 ft, LWL 24.6 ft, Beam 10 ft. Dspl. 6200 lb, Ballast 2500.
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