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.

[8] Sharp is a mechanical engineering specialist in high-performance composite structural design.

He engineered a 43-metre (141 ft) wind turbine through his time at Blade Dynamics on the Isle of Wight and three carbon-fibre booms at Future Fibres in Valencia, Spain.

In 2018 Sharp co-founded Genevos in La Rochelle to develop and commercialise marine fuel cells to decarbonise vessels with green hydrogen.