Phil Sharp (sailor)

Racing a 2013 Manuard Mach 2 design under the name Imerys Clean Energy, Sharp won the Class40 ocean racing Championship in 2017 and 2018{{cite news |title=Phil Sharp crowned Class 40 champion |url=https://www.sail-world.com/news/199819/Phil-Sharp-crowned-Class-40-champion}} with title sponsor Imerys.

In 2006, Sharp won the Route du Rhum single-handed race from St Malo, Brittany, to Guadeloupe aboard a Class40 and is entered for the 2018 edition. In 2016, Sharp lost his lead in the single-handed in the Transat Bakerly (Plymouth, UK – New York, US) after his mainsail shredded in a storm. Sharp made a temporary repair and finished the race in 3rd place.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sailing/2016/06/02/great-britains-phil-sharp-secures-podium-finish-in-transat-baker/ |title=A true British underdog story: Phil Sharp overcomes all odds with Transat podium finish |last1=Brown |first1=Luke |date=2 June 2016 |work=The Telegraph}}

Sharp is a mechanical engineering specialist in high-performance composite structural design. He engineered a {{convert|43|m|ft|adj=on}} wind turbine through his time at Blade Dynamics on the Isle of Wight and three carbon-fibre booms at Future Fibres in Valencia, Spain.{{Cite news |url=http://philsharpracing.com/phil-sharps-biography/ |title=Phil Sharp's Biography |work=Energy Challenge – Innovating for our Future |access-date=29 August 2018 |language=en-GB}} Sharp designed what is (as of August 2018) the largest yacht in the world, A. The £260 million superyacht has a length of {{convert|473|ft|m|order=flip}} and a gross tonnage of 12,558. In 2018 Sharp co-founded Genevos in La Rochelle to develop and commercialise marine fuel cells to decarbonise vessels with green hydrogen.

Sharp is a member of the Royal Cruising Club and Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club. He is a founder of PS Racing Ltd, a sports-management company which operates OceansLab – Race to Zero Emissions. A key campaign objective is to compete in the Everest of Sailing, the Vendee Globe solo, non-stop, around the world race, while being powered by wind and a Genevos Hydrogen Power Module.

In 2023 he commissioned his new boat Oceanslab.{{Cite web |last=Kemmling |first=Carsten |date=21 November 2023 |title=Jüngster IMOCA OceansLab: Schaden bedeutet wohl Vendée Globe-Aus für Phil Sharp |url=https://segelreporter.com/regatta/juengster-imoca-oceanslab-schaden-bedeutet-wohl-vendee-globe-aus-fuer-phil-sharp/ |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=SegelReporter |language=de-DE}}

• 2019: Monohull (40 ft and single-handed) for Around the Isle of Wight. Starting and finishing on 19 December 2019, the distance of {{convert|50|nmi}} was sailed at an average speed of {{convert|9.83|kn}} in 5 hours, 5 minutes and 4 seconds.{{cite web |title=Records |url=https://www.sailspeedrecords.com/records |website=sailspeedrecords.com |language=en-gb}}
• 2018: Monohull (crewed, up to 40 feet) for the Round Britain and Ireland. Starting on 12 August 2018, the distance of {{convert|1773|nmi}} sailed was covered at an average speed of {{convert|9.03|kn}} in 8 days, 4 hours, 14 minutes.{{cite web |title=Records |url=https://www.sailspeedrecords.com/records |website=sailspeedrecords.com |language=en-gb}}
• 2016: Monohull and multihull (single-handed up to 60 feet) for the Channel (Cowes, Isle of Wight – Dinard, Brittany). The route distance of {{convert|138|nmi}} was covered on 24 November in 9 hours 3 minutes with an average speed of {{convert|15.25|kn}} 15.25 kn (28.24 km/h).{{cite web |title=Records |url=https://www.sailspeedrecords.com/records |website=sailspeedrecords.com |language=en-gb}}

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• {{Official website|https://www.philsharpracing.com/}}
• {{World Sailing|phil-sharp|id=GBRPS59}}

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Category:1981 births

Category:Living people

Category:Alumni of Imperial College London

Category:English male sailors (sport)

Category:Jersey male sailors (sport)

Category:People educated at Victoria College, Jersey

Category:21st-century English sportsmen