Twenty-one year-old Katie Miller is one of the UK's most promising ocean racers and she's racing at Skandia Cowes Week. On Day One she was aboard the Henri Lloyd TP52 Cutting Edge in Class 0 IRC but the rest of the week she'll be racing her own Figaro 2 Hot Socks.
Royal Southampton member, Katie, first made her name when she completed a solo circumnavigation of the British Isles aboard a Corribee and then went on to win the YJA/RaymarineYoung Sailor of the Year Award in 2007. She recently purchased Hot Socks from fellow Royal Southampton member, Sam Davies who had the boat from new five year's ago, and last month, went on to win the bluQube 1000 Solo race. Her current ambition is to complete the OSTAR 2009 single-handed Transatlantic race, a race in which she has also qualified.
Commenting on the step up from the Corribee, Katie said: "After I went round Britain I crewed on a Figaro 1 and I was doing a lot of double-handed stuff, then I got onto a J/105 and did some fully-crewed stuff in the Hamble Winter Series.
"The step up from the Corribee would have been massive but having a kind of year's work experience on the Figaro 1 and J/105 was a good move."
She competes in the Royal Southampton's McGuigan Wines' Double Handed series.
