Yachting World 0shares Pip Hare fulfilled a lifelong dream when she finished the Vendée Globe, the first British skipper in this year's event, though the race was also her toughest challenge yet. Pip recounts her experiences. The Vendée Globe race was everything I ever dreamed it could be, and more. It challenged me every day, it made me scream with laughter, it brought me to my knees with physical fatigue and the emotional agony of disappointment. But there is not one single day I did not want to be exactly where I was. It had been a hard battle to get to the line. I was sailing the second oldest boat in the fleet, was a rookie in the IMOCA class, had a small team behind me, and very little time to test the upgrades we made after Medallia came on board as my title sponsor.