Jean-Pierre Ravanat and Drew Meincke raced this yacht double handed last year and placed 43^rd overall and sixth in the double handed division after being one of the first night retirements in the 2022 race, when the yacht suffered mainsail damage. This year the yacht will race fully crewed for the first time. Hip-Nautic was launched by Ravanat in late 2020. She is a Sun Fast design like Gizmo, designed short-handed sailing. Ravanat is a seasoned sailor and skippered his yacht to third under IRC in the 2020 Launceston to Hobart. Hip-Nautic won IRC Division 2 and won the Double Handed Division of the 2022 Gladstone Ports Corporation Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race.