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This weekend, a group of 30 (!) of us will be cycling the beautiful Chalkway in Wiltshire and Dorset to raise money for the charities that supported our beautiful daughter Minnie while she was alive.
Minnie was born in March 2022 and spent the bravest 19 days critically ill in NICU in London. She received the most amazing love and care at St Mary's and Queen Charlotte's hospitals.

In her memory we are raising money for the amazing Cosmic Foundation, which provides state-of-the-art equipment to neonatal intensive care, as well as two charities that have supported us as a family since.

Our amazing friends and family have already contributed nearly £35,000!! But we haven't quite reached our target, so I am reposting in case anyone would like to contribute.

We'd be so grateful for any support 🙂 With huge thanks from Chloe, Ottilie, me and our simply amazing team (which includes Matthias Schanze, Richard Heading, Juan Burrone, Fernando Goni, Steve Harmer, Alan Shaw, Ali Cox, Hiske Hoekstra, Mark Feesboek, Ed Sowerby, Anna Drury, Molly Swann, Chloe Luxton, Kat Blackford, Leila and Robin Shepherd-North, James Palmer-Tomkinson, Ed Immink, Hardwin Abbot-Davies, Nick Jenkins, Ned Fletcher, Nick Pope, Will Frank, Felicity Speers, and Camilla Wheatley-Hubbard)

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On 22/23 June 2024 a group of us will be cycling the beautiful chalkway in Wiltshire and Dorset to raise money for the charities that supported our beautiful daughter Minnie while she was alive.
Minnie was born in March 2022 and spent the bravest 19 days critically ill in NICU in London. She received love and care that still brings tears to our eyes but, having been so ill, her body couldn't go on any longer.
All of us love deeply and so will have a grasp of the sadness that we are still wading through as a family. In her memory we are raising money for the amazing Cosmic Foundation, which provides state-of-the-art equipment to neonatal intensive care, as well as two charities that have supported us as a family since.
If you'd like to join our fun and challenging cycle ride *please* do!! The more the merrier and this will be our only event in Minnie's memory. FB is, I appreciate, a wide net and even if we haven't seen each other in a while, we'd love you to join us.
If not, there's a link below if you'd like to donate to these amazing charities.
We'd be so grateful for any support 🙂 With huge thanks from Chloe, Ottilie and me xx

www.cyclingthechalkwayforminnie.com

www.givewheel.com/fundraising/2841/cycling-the-chalkway-for-minnie/

Cycling the Chalkway for Minnie - GiveWheel At 0930 on Saturday 22nd June 2024 a group of us will be meeting at Tisbury station in Wiltshire and will set off to cycling the Chalkway over two days, arriving at Lyme Regis for pizza and bubbles mid afternoon on Sunday 23rd June.

The immaculate SIG45 #2 is available for sale. She was built to superyacht quality in pre-preg carbon fibre, with a nomex honeycomb interior. Her new Hall Spars rig and North 3Di sails are of the highest quality. She has to be seen to be believed. No expense was ever spared on deck hardware (Harken and Karver) and nav equipment (B&G). She has all the luxuries, with an options list as long as your arm including air-conditioning, electric winches, cork deck, hard-top biminis, leather interior cushions, custom sumbrella exterior cushions, electric flush heads, Sonos sound system with multiple speakers and woofers, etc.. Attention to weight and quality was meticulous at every step, down to the aircraft grade drawer latches and sliders. Contact me via [email protected] if you are interested. This really is an opportunity not to be missed.

Le Breton Yachts is looking for a junior project manager for a new cat project in the Netherlands. Please message me if you are interested via [email protected]

What an awesome machine - pictures from the SIG45 in Greece

The SIG45 in cruising mode

Some more awesome pics of our rocket ship

RBBS 2012 San Francisco

Check out these stunning photos of the SIG45 in SF (credit Sharon Green). The SIG45 has reached 29.3 knots in the bay with a reefed main and Code 0. But steady 26-27 is commonplace. It's easy to forget that there's a luxury interior hidden in there!

Take a look at this great video - really gives a sense of much fun it is to sail the amazing SIG45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1qiqh6gIzU

Le Breton Yachts SIG45 Fast 45ft Cruising Sailing Catamaran An illustration of the features of the SIG45 performance catamaran

A great little film about the Oceanvolt hybrid-electric propulsion unit on the SIG45. Enjoy!

Oceanvolt SEA System The SEA in Oceanvolt SEA® stands for Silent Electric Autonomy. Oceanvolt SEA® is a complete electric motor system for monohulls and multihulls between 20-60 ...

A Sail Geek’s Guide | Loïck Peyron

After becoming acquainted with Bruno Peyron in our March 2014 newsletter, we now want to zoom in on his equally iconic yachtsman brother, Loïck Peyron. Loïck first became famous in the 1990s sailing his trimaran Fujicolor (See picture below). He won the ORMA Championship four times in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2002, the STAR Transatlantic Race three times, the Transat Jacques Vabre twice and he is the current Jules Verne Trophy holder.

In 2010, Loïck acted as advisor and occasional helmsman in the Swiss Alinghi team in the 33rd America's Cup. Alinghi were defeated by the American challenger BMW Oracle Racing, with their more powerful trimaran. Many argued afterwards that it was Oracle’s 70m tall solid wing that clinched victory, reducing both air drag and rig loads aboard the boat. That incredible machine reached just over 30 knots of speed in 10 knots of wind.

In early 2012 Loïck won the Jules Verne Trophy, circling the globe in an astonishing time of 45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds, breaking Franck Cammas´ record by 2 days. This is 35 days faster than his brother’s first successful attempt in 1996 – an incredible leap in performance. 2014 was to bring a very different challenge: for some years, Loïck had wanted to do the mythical Route du Rhum (a solo race from Saint Malo to Guadeloupe) in an alternative way. He refitted a small yellow trimaran called 'Happy', designed by Walter Greene, a sister ship to Olympus Photo, which Canadian Mike Birch sailed to an enthralling victory in the first Route du Rhum in 1978. That little yellow trimaran's victory against Michel Malinowski aboard his giant monohull, with a difference of just 98 seconds separating the winner from his runner-up, has gone down in history. "To get these boats into shape shows a good example; to respect the past allows us to rethink the future".

But his plan turned out differently when he was asked to step in on Banque Populaire VII as relief skipper just weeks before the race, when original skipper Armel Le Cléac’h damaged his hand. The outcome was a fairytale result. Thirty two years after the first of his seven attempts on the Route du Rhum, he won it in a record time. The lone skipper of the 31.5m (103ft) trimaran Maxi Solo Banque Populaire VII completed the 3,542 miles course in 7 days 15 hours 8 minutes 32 seconds, beating the previous record by less than two hours. Loïck’s route resulted in him sailing 4,199NM at an average of 22.93kts. Alone.

In four years’ time, Loïck will be back to do the race in that little yellow trimaran of his. He will not be gunning for line honours for once...