One More Knot's Racing Summary

2009

We're looking forwards to carrying on from 2008, which was a really good year for us. It's early days yet, but the current thinking is:

Crew :
Please check your dates and let me know availability. Thanks. It would be really helpful if you can do 3 or more days in any of the series.
Please phone/email me .... there's only one of me and lots of crew!

Parhelion Spring Series
March 21st Phil + who is available?
April 28th Phil + who is available?
April 4th Phil + who is available?
April 18 (subject to works 'do' .... and series standing!) Phil + who is available?
April 25th Phil + who is available?

Round the Island Race
June 18th Thursday : Boat clear out and maintenance Phil
June 19th Friday : Practice Phil + who is available?
June 20th Saturday : Race Phil + who is available?

Elan Regatta
TBD Saturday Phil + who is available?
TBD Sunday Phil + who is available?

Parhelion Autumn Series
Oct 3rd Phil + who is available?
Oct 10 Phil + who is available?
Oct 17th Phil + who is available?
Oct 24th Phil + who is available?
Oct 31st Phil + who is available?
Nov 7th Phil + who is available?

2008

One More Knot : Elan Regatta champions

Wow, what a year! We won 5 races from 17 races in 2008. Actually, 5 wins from the last 8 starts sounds even better! Lets enjoy it while we can.

The season started with a hard fought Portsmouth Parhelion Spring Series . One More Knot pipped Just In Time for 3rd place overall on the count back by winning the final race. Total Obsession won the series easily. We have photos gallore .... see the report pages for the links.

Next, we claimed 6th in class on the Round the Island race . We had a very creditable 11th in group and 51st overall in ISC. To cap it all, it was windy which allowed us to clock our best time yet, 7 hours 52 minutes and 6 seconds for the rounding. This knocked over an hour off our personal best. We were also much closer to the class leaders than we had ever been before.

Premier Marinas organised the inaugural Elan Regatta. On Saturday 5th July, 3 races were run in windy conditions, F5-F7. One More Knot and her crew claimed a clean sweep, winning all three races. With increased winds on the Sunday, racing was cancelled (much to the relief of the participants). One More Knot was 1st overall for the Elan Regatta. Unbeaten plus fabulous trophies meant that this was a weekend to savour.

Following our summer holidays, we noticed than we had a broken strand on one of our D1's. After much deliberation, we took the mast off and replaced all of the standing rigging. We also took the opportunity to change to Dyform, plus change to a dyneema backstay with a flicker. And one other finishing touch was to add some protection to the steaming light, so that hopefully we don't knock it off the mast again.

We concluded the year with a partial Portsmouth Parhelion Autumn Series . We competed in 3 races, claiming a 2nd, 5th and thankfully another win in the final race of the series.

2007

We raced in the 6 weekend Parhelion  2007 Autumn series  to claim 4th spot.  The new spinnaker is making us much faster downwind.  We were denied 3rd place by Just In Time, on the count back .... again!

One More Knot completed the Round the Island Race this year to claim 9th place in class. With nearly 1800 entries, this was the largest 2nd largest ever entry list which produced a record number of finishers. We had an excellent start but we messed up the last leg a bit. Having said that, a top 10 finish isn't bad in a fleet this size. One More Knot's full round the island race report..

One More Knot was 5th in the 2007 Spring Parhelion Series. We shared the same points tally as Concerto in 4th, but were miles away from 3rd place. The rig had been taken down over the winter and put back with a shorter forestay. We failed to make allowances and change the sheeting positions until it happened by accident in the last race of the series. The series had 9 races in which 7 yachts raced in the Club class. The weather was fantastic throughout.

2006

One More Knot claimed 3rd place in the 2006 Autumn Parhelion series which was run by the Portsmouth Sailing Club. The series had 12 races which were run over 6 weeks on Saturday mornings in the eastern Solent. 9 boats entered the club class.

One More Knot completed this years difficult Round the Island race, recording 5th in class (from 48 starters). Over half of the yachts failed to finish, mainly due to very light winds and adverse tidal conditions for the later starters. As only 14 yachts in our class recorded a finish we are particularly proud of our achievement.

Last years 4th place set the bar much higher and we looked upon this year as a test to see if last years results was a fluke. A 5th place this year answered those questions.

Approximately 1600 boats raced in F0-F4 conditions.  This was our first race where we had used the anchor. Read all about is in our 2006 RTI race report.

2005

One More Knot has completed the 2005 Round the Island race recording 4th in class (from 40 finishers). One More Knot's 2005 RTI race report. We were quite excited about this result!  A great day's sailing with over 1600 boats racing in mixed F0-F5 conditions.

The Parhelion Spring series included 9 races over 5 weekends and has now concluded with One More Knot in 3rd place, from 8 in class. One More Knots 2005 Parhelion spring series race reports. The results included a race win, numerous line honours and a number of 2nd places. A major improvement. A good sign that the both the new equipment and the crew are coming together.

We also raced the autumn series, however we struggled to find a consistent crew and this showed in our results. Could do better ..... lets not say any more on this!

Pompey Parhelion Series
This is local race series at the eastern end of the the Solent, run by the Portsmouth Sailing Club.

2004

The Parhelion autumn series has now finished. One More Knots 2004 Parhelion autumn series race reports. One More Knot finished 6th out of 8 in the series (Club class).

Race report from the Round the Island Race, the famous round the Isle Of Wight race with about 1600 other boats. One More Knot finished 26 in class, from 60 finishers.

The Parhelion spring series, over 4 weekends of racing, and came 3rd in class. One More Knot's 2004 Parhelion spring series race reports . One More Knot completed all seven races, and came 3rd in the series.

Pompey Parhelion Series
This is local race series at the eastern end of the the Solent, run by the Portsmouth Sailing Club.

2003

Round the Island Race, the famous round the Isle Of Wight race with about 1600 other boats. One More Knot came 27th in class. One More Knot's 2003 RTI race report.

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Last modified: July 9th 2008