Snapped mast ends bid for world first
Daily Express|December 17, 2024
SOLO yachtswoman Pip Hare has suffered a heartbreak end to her bid to make history.
Paul Vass
Snapped mast ends bid for world first

Her yacht was dismasted by brutal Southern Ocean seas, knocking her out of the Vendee Globe round-the-world race.

The 95ft spar was snapped as 60ft vessel Medallia came down from a giant wave some 800 miles south-west of Tasmania.

Pip, 50, has made a temporary rig from a piece of mast and is limping back to land.

This story is from the December 17, 2024 edition of Daily Express.

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