{"id":157691,"date":"2025-04-30T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/?p=157691"},"modified":"2025-04-30T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:57:51","slug":"max-warp-speed-for-days-on-end-pip-hare-on-joining-canada-ocean-racing-for-the-ocean-race-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/all-latest-posts\/max-warp-speed-for-days-on-end-pip-hare-on-joining-canada-ocean-racing-for-the-ocean-race-europe-157691","title":{"rendered":"Max warp speed for days on end! Pip Hare on joining Canada Ocean Racing for The Ocean Race Europe\u00a0"},"content":"British IMOCA<\/a> skipper Pip Hare<\/a> has announced that she\u2019ll be racing alongside Canadian skipper Scott Shawyer on Shawyer\u2019s Be Water Positive campaign for the 2025 edition of The Ocean Race Europe.\r\n\r\nPip will be onboard as part of the four-person team for every stage of The Ocean Race Europe, which is a crewed multi-stage race that begins on 10 August 2025.\r\n\r\nShawyer\u2019s team is shortly about to take possession of their new foiling IMOCA yacht (details to be announced soon) on the next stage of his working towards the 2028 Vend\u00e9e Globe<\/a>.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt's a nice development,\u201d she told Yachting World. \u201cI've been speaking with Scott ever since he started his campaign<\/a>. I remember what it was like coming into the class and kind of feeling a bit isolated \u2013 so I always try to check in with him, see how he's doing, see if there's anything I could support him with.\r\n
<\/div>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_157694\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Hare and Shawyer in the foiling 'Canada Ocean Racing' IMOCA - details to be unveiled soon.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n\"Then after my dismasting<\/a> (in the 2024 Vend\u00e9e Globe) we started talking about what a collaboration might look like, whether I could support him with stepping up into a foiling boat.\u201d\r\n\r\nHare\u2019s own IMOCA is currently being shipped back to Europe after dismasting in the 2024 Vend\u00e9e Globe. She is currently seeking a new title sponsor for her own Vend\u00e9e Globe 2028 campaign.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt's one of the really positive things about being able to collaborate within the class.\r\n\r\n\"We're all out there on our own with our own projects and very much in competition, particularly at the moment. Trying to find sponsorship is very hard for everyone. So all pulling together to maintain our knowledge, to keep driving performance while still trying to look for our own projects is going to be a really important thing for quite a number of sailors.\r\n\r\n\u201cI'm going to be kind of driving the sailing programme over the next two months. I\u2019m really looking forward to the opportunity of sailing with some other IMOCA sailors and learning from them about how to manage the boat fully crewed \u2013 this idea of being able to sail a foiling IMOCA at max warp for days on end, the power of collective minds and strength. That's really exciting to me.\r\n\r\n\u201cI'm just really pleased that Scott and I have been able to work something out. And it's going to be exciting to see another non-French team making an impact.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cI think we're going to have a lot of fun over the summer.\u201d\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_157695\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" The course for The Ocean Race Europe - Leg 2 will be a monster![\/caption]\r\n

Ocean Race Europe course<\/h2>\r\nHowever, she points out that the course for the Ocean Race Europe is going to be tough.\r\n\r\nThe race starts from Kiel in Germany, with stage finishes in Portsmouth, UK, then a \u2018flyby\u2019 at Matosinhos in Portugal before finishing the long Leg 2 in Catagena, Spain. Leg three takes the fleet onto Nice, then they race to Genova, before hooking around Italy to finish in Montenegro.\r\n\r\n\u201cHaving taken part in the Ocean Race Europe in 2021, I know about the challenges of the Mediterranean \u2013 particularly the massive frustrations as well of wind shadows and parking up.\r\n\r\n\u201cLeg two is going to be enormous and then the leg from Genoa to Montenegro is a complete unknown for me, that's an area in the Med that I haven't been to before.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt's going to be an intense race \u2013 the stopovers aren't very long.\u201d\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_140114\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Scott Shawyer shortly after announcing his IMOCA campaign \u2018 Canada Ocean Racing\u2019. Pictured here training on the team's first run offshore with his original boat and mentor Alex Thomson. (Photo by Lloyd Images)[\/caption]\r\n\r\nShawyer, a successful businessman and lifelong amateur sailor, announced his Vend\u00e9e Globe ambitions in 2022. He has since worked with Vend\u00e9e veterans Alex Thomson and Nick Moloney as he builds experience and preparedness for the 2028 race.\r\n\r\n\u201cPip is a ruthless competitor with a huge heart,\u201d he said. \u201cShe brings a rare mix of tenacity, experience, and humanity to the team. Her ability to dig deep and lead through action will be a huge asset to us.\u201d","excerpt":{"rendered":"

British IMOCA skipper Pip Hare has announced that she\u2019ll be racing alongside Canadian skipper Scott Shawyer on Shawyer\u2019s Be Water Positive campaign for the 2025 edition of The Ocean Race Europe. Pip will be onboard as part of the four-person team for every stage of The Ocean Race Europe, which is a crewed multi-stage race that begins on 10 August 2025. Shawyer\u2019s team is shortly about to take possession of their new foiling IMOCA yacht (details to be announced soon) on the next stage of his working towards the 2028 Vend\u00e9e Globe. \u201cIt’s a nice development,\u201d she told Yachting World. \u201cI’ve been speaking with Scott ever since he started his campaign. I remember what it was like coming into the class and kind of feeling a bit isolated \u2013 so I always try to check in with him, see how he’s doing, see if there’s anything I could support him with. “Then after my dismasting (in the 2024 Vend\u00e9e Globe) we started talking about what a collaboration might look like, whether I could support him with stepping up into a foiling boat.\u201d Hare\u2019s own IMOCA is currently being shipped back to Europe after dismasting in the 2024 Vend\u00e9e Globe. She is currently seeking a new title sponsor for her own Vend\u00e9e Globe 2028 campaign. \u201cIt’s one of the really positive things about being able to collaborate within the class. “We’re all out there on our own with our own projects and very much in competition, particularly at the moment. Trying to find sponsorship is very hard for everyone. So all pulling together to maintain our knowledge, to keep driving performance while still trying to look for our own projects is going to be a really important thing for quite a number of sailors. \u201cI’m going to be kind of driving the sailing programme over the next two months. I\u2019m really looking forward to the opportunity of sailing with some other IMOCA sailors and learning from them about how to manage the boat fully crewed \u2013 this idea of being able to sail a foiling IMOCA at max warp for days on end, the power of collective minds and strength. That’s really exciting to me. \u201cI’m just really pleased that Scott and I have been able to work something out. And it’s going to be exciting to see another non-French team making an impact.\u201d \u201cI think we’re going to have a lot of fun over the summer.\u201d Ocean Race Europe course However, she points out that the course for the Ocean Race Europe is going to be tough. The race starts from Kiel in Germany, with stage finishes in Portsmouth, UK, then a \u2018flyby\u2019 at Matosinhos in Portugal before finishing the long Leg 2 in Catagena, Spain. Leg three takes the fleet onto Nice, then they race to Genova, before hooking around Italy to finish in Montenegro. \u201cHaving taken part in the Ocean Race Europe in 2021, I know about the challenges of the Mediterranean \u2013 particularly the massive frustrations as …Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1571,"featured_media":157693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1160,892],"tags":[747,207,1633],"review_manufacturer":[],"acf":[],"introduction":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157700,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157691\/revisions\/157700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157691"},{"taxonomy":"review_manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_manufacturer?post=157691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}