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Canada Ocean Racing - Be Water Positive Sailing Team

Pip Hare

Crew

United Kingdom

Date of birth: 7 February 1974

Place of birth: London

Pip Hare is known as the CEO and skipper of the UK-based IMOCA team, Pip Hare Ocean Racing. This year, as part of a powerful collaboration, she joined Team Be Water Positive, bringing her experience and energy to a fully crewed ocean racing project. Pip will take the helm and stand in as skipper of the Canadian team during the legs when Scott Shawyer is not racing.

Pip’s passion for ocean racing has driven a 30-year career dedicated to the sport. She is visibly at home on the water and has earned a reputation for making this highly technical discipline accessible and relatable. Having worked her way up the ranks of international ocean racing, starting with a liveaboard boat in the OSTAR transatlantic race, Pip is now a respected competitor in the IMOCA fleet and a world sailing record holder.

With seven years of IMOCA experience, Pip most recently campaigned a foiling IMOCA in the four-year build-up to the 2024 Vendée Globe. She outperformed the age of her boat to achieve top-ten results in the IMOCA Globe Series events.

During the 2024 Vendée Globe, Pip devastatingly dismasted 800 miles south of Australia, almost exactly halfway around the course. Rather than calling for rescue, she built a makeshift mast from the wreckage and sailed herself to safety.

Pip brings a love of the ocean, a drive to compete, and a human voice to the Be Water Positive Team.

Sailing highlights

  • 2022 World Record Holder (Monohull) – Solo round Isle of Wight

IMOCA 60

  • 2024 Vendee Globe Starter (Dismasted)
  • 2024 New York Vendée - 9th
  • 2023 Retour à La Base – 11th
  • 2023 Transat Jacques Vabre – 12th
  • 2022 Route Du Rhum – 12th
  • 2022 Vendée Arctique Race – 13th
  • 2022 Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race – 17th
  • 2020 Vendée Globe Race – 19th
  • 2019 Transat Jacques Vabre – 24th
  • 2019 Fastnet – 13th
  • 2019 Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race – 15th

Class 40

  • 2018 Round Ireland – 2nd  
  • 2017 Caribbean 600 – 1st
  • 2015 Transat Jacques Vabre – 9th

  • Canada Ocean Racing - Be Water Positive Sailing Team

    Pip Hare

    Crew


    United Kingdom

  • Date of birth: 7 February 1974

    Place of birth: London

    Pip Hare is known as the CEO and skipper of the UK-based IMOCA team, Pip Hare Ocean Racing. This year, as part of a powerful collaboration, she joined Team Be Water Positive, bringing her experience and energy to a fully crewed ocean racing project. Pip will take the helm and stand in as skipper of the Canadian team during the legs when Scott Shawyer is not racing.

    Pip’s passion for ocean racing has driven a 30-year career dedicated to the sport. She is visibly at home on the water and has earned a reputation for making this highly technical discipline accessible and relatable. Having worked her way up the ranks of international ocean racing, starting with a liveaboard boat in the OSTAR transatlantic race, Pip is now a respected competitor in the IMOCA fleet and a world sailing record holder.

    With seven years of IMOCA experience, Pip most recently campaigned a foiling IMOCA in the four-year build-up to the 2024 Vendée Globe. She outperformed the age of her boat to achieve top-ten results in the IMOCA Globe Series events.

    During the 2024 Vendée Globe, Pip devastatingly dismasted 800 miles south of Australia, almost exactly halfway around the course. Rather than calling for rescue, she built a makeshift mast from the wreckage and sailed herself to safety.

    Pip brings a love of the ocean, a drive to compete, and a human voice to the Be Water Positive Team.

    Sailing highlights

    • 2022 World Record Holder (Monohull) – Solo round Isle of Wight

    IMOCA 60

    • 2024 Vendee Globe Starter (Dismasted)
    • 2024 New York Vendée - 9th
    • 2023 Retour à La Base – 11th
    • 2023 Transat Jacques Vabre – 12th
    • 2022 Route Du Rhum – 12th
    • 2022 Vendée Arctique Race – 13th
    • 2022 Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race – 17th
    • 2020 Vendée Globe Race – 19th
    • 2019 Transat Jacques Vabre – 24th
    • 2019 Fastnet – 13th
    • 2019 Guyader Bermudes 1000 Race – 15th

    Class 40

    • 2018 Round Ireland – 2nd  
    • 2017 Caribbean 600 – 1st
    • 2015 Transat Jacques Vabre – 9th