Discovering New Limits
Phil Sharp's first full season of Class 40 saw him race over 10,000 nm in three core events finishing the year 3rd in the 2016 [...]
December 2016
June 2016
A Battle to Take Podium – The Inside Story
Phil's Blog Well, we did it, we reached the Big Apple in one piece... sort of. My faithful Mach 40 Imerys and I raced a [...]
May 2016
British Podium Finish!
For some of the big multihull skippers The Transat bakerly was a most unusual race. Far from being a boat-breaking uphill test against storm force [...]
Endurance & Epic Engineering
The hostile environment of the North Atlantic proves its strength again as a large tear in the mainsail forces Phil to face yet another [...]
NEWSFLASH – Disaster on board as mainsail rips
18:20 - Phil calls in to report on the incident. "I was trying to take off pressure on the mainsail, to conserve the boat [...]
Doing it for Britain!
After the dooms of Friday the 13th and the raw brutalities of the North Atlantic forced two retirements, and numerous breakages on board Imerys, [...]