Adventure She magazine June 2019

The Big InterviewWith Pip Hare

By Jane Harries

Photographs courtesy of Pip Hare Ocean Racing, all rights reserved

When you imagine an ocean going sailor, what do you picture?

Does the picture in your mind change when you swap the word sailor for single handed yachtsperson?

Would the picture in your mind change if I?d asked you to instead imagine a single handed yachtswoman?

Well, there is no need to imagine any further, for earlier this year I chatted with Pip Hare about her life on the ocean and her goal of competing in the 2020 Vendée Global Challenge.

Pip Hare, is a name currently unknown to many, but 18, 19, 20 months from now, Pip Hare could be front page news on every UK newspaper, plus a few French papers and many other international newspapers. For Pip Hare is attempting the Vendée Globe, in other words, sailing solo, nonstop and without assistance around the world. That?s right, nonstop. No calling at Montevideo, Cape Town, Perth, Auckland, or even Tierra del Fuego for coffee and cake, whilst a local boat yard fixes any glitches or fine tunes her yacht. One cup of coffee, one borrowed hammer, one tiny bit of help, would mean a rule infringement and exclusion from the race. This race is nonstop, this race is unassisted and this race is solo. True you can return to the start and seek help to fix it, within the first ten days of starting, but after that, you are on your own.

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