Pip Hare
Pip Hare is the CEO of Britain’s leading Ocean Race team and is the 8th woman in history to finish the Vendée Globe Yacht Race, a world record.
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Biography
Pip Hare is the CEO of Britain’s leading Ocean Race team and is the 8th woman in history to finish the Vendée Globe Yacht Race, a world record.
Growing up in land-locked Cambridgeshire, Pip had neither the role models nor the contacts to make a career in yacht racing. She realised that to succeed she had to create her own opportunities. ‘If someone said I couldn’t do it, I simply walked around them and found my own solution’.
Pip now has a professional sailing career spanning 25 years. She has sailed most of the world’s oceans but only found the opportunity to break into solo sailing in 2013, when she entered the OSTAR race from Plymouth UK to Newport, USA. Since completing that race Pip has worked her way through the international ranks of solo and ocean racing, competing in all the major classes, training with determination, project managing and fundraising for her own campaigns every step of the way.
In June 2020, sponsored by Medallia, Pip took on the world in the Vendée Globe race in November 2020. It is one of the toughest endurance challenges on the planet, and she will tackle it again in 2024, ‘faster, fitter & more determined than ever’.
Books
Pip’s first book, IN MY ELEMENT: LIFE LESSONS FROM THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST SOLO OCEAN RACE, was published in October 2024.
In My Element is a gripping and inspiring account of one of the world's toughest races through the eyes of an extraordinary woman, and how she (and all of us) can use the lessons she learned to live a life of authenticity and success
‘Pip's refreshing honesty takes us under the bonnet, both practically and emotionally, of what is required to compete in the Vendée Globe. More astronauts, by far, have circled the globe than single handed sailors. This book gifts insightful and relevant lessons to help rise above day to day challenges and push beyond perceived limits. An entertaining and compelling page turner that will stay with you.’ ― Pete Goss, British yachtsman