One More Knot's Racing Summary

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2010

One More Knot wins the 2010 Portsmouth Sailing Club Spring Series

A very close battle between One More Knot and Symphony saw One More Knot come out on top by a single point by winning the very last race of the series.

After One More Knot's 2nd in class last year in the 2009 Round the Island Race, the bar was set pretty high. This year we practiced on Friday before the race again, as usual. Despite our efforts, we recorded a time just outside our personal best to claim 4th in class and 15th in the group in the 2010 Round The Island Race. This very creditable result proves that One More Knot and her crew are no pushover, with consistent top 10 (mostly top 5) class results over the last 6 years. However, a class win in this race has still evaded us leaving room for improvement! This year, the ISC introduced boat tracking for those that registered with suitable equipment. One More Knot was registered, have a look and see where we lost our to "Adelie Too", 2nd in class and only about 1 minute behind the winner.

CREW: Please check dates and keep me updated.

Race Schedule

Portsmouth Parhelion Spring series : March 20th, 27th, April 10th, 17th and 24th
Elan regatta (TBC): June 4th (Friday practice), 5th and 6th
Round the Island race : June 18th (Friday practice) and 19th
Portsmouth Parhelion Autumn series : October 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th and November 6th

Crew

Crew, please check the dates and keep your diaries clear. Please let me know your availability.

Parhelion Spring Series
October 2nd	Phil +?
October 9th	Phil +?
October 16th	Phil +?
October 23rd	Phil +?
October 30th	Phil +?
November 6th	Phil +?

Looking for crews of 6-9 per race. Please phone/email me ASAP. Thanks

2009

One More Knot wins the 2009 Portsmouth Sailing Club Autumn Series
One More Knot 2nd in class in the Round the Island race

Following a pretty average perfomance in the Portsmouth Sailing Club Spring Series One More Knot's crew stepped up a gear.

In the Round the Island race, One More Knot recorded 2nd in class and 9th in her start group of 125 yachts. This years RTI had an entry of 1779 yachts of which 1566 ultimately completed the course in challanging and mixed conditions. The crew of OMK had come alive and each had 'owned' their part of the yacht. Boat speed and handling had improved considerably, as had our ability to keep One More Knot on her feet in windy conditions.

During the summer, sadly, the Elan Regatta was cancelled, however as One More Knot and her crew are the reigning champions it has allowed us to retain the magnificant trophies for a further year.

After some maintenance that had One More Knot out of the water in September, she was ready to attack the PSC Autumn Series. The series started well with a double header win, each race being won by a clear margin. The series continued extremely successfully with One More Knot recording 8 wins from 11 races. With 4 discards this allowed us the rare honour of discarding a win!

2009 Race reports:

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 / vectran 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.