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Pip Hare has achieved a lifelong dream by finishing the Vendée Globe, the first British skipper in the 2020 race
Pip Hare crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe at 0057 this morning to become the first British skipper to finish the 2020/21 race.
When the gun went, she jumped for joy. The grainy footage of a small red-clad figure leaping on the deck of her silver and purple IMOCA was undeniably emotional, this was watching someone’s lifetime dream come true. To complete the Vendée Globe was an ambition that Pip had poured her very heart and soul into, and hers was a moment of pure celebration.
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Clarisse Cremer gives the thumbs up to her record breaking run in the Vendee Globe - Olivier-Blanchet/Alea pic
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Vendee Globe: First female finisher Clarisse Cremer breaks solo non-stop monohull world record 6 February 2021
Following a prudent, careful passage across a boisterous Bay of Biscay, negotiating one last stormy low pressure, a triumphant Clarisse Cremer became the first woman to cross the finish line of the ninth Vendée Globe at 15:44:25 hrs UTC, to take an excellent 12th place on Banque Populaire X from 33 starters.
Cremer finished in late afternoon Vendée sunshine and a diminishing westerly wind of 20 knots with 4-5 metre seas. Her elapsed time of 87 days 02 hours and 24 minutes breaks Ellen MacArthur s 21 year-old monohull solo non-stop record for a female skipper of 94 days 4 hours, which she set when she took second in the 2000-2001 Vendée Globe.