Princess Eugenie and singer James Blunt were in Windsor Great Park on Tuesday September 17 to start a London-to-Monaco bike ride. 

After 900 kilometres, the 66 cyclists arrived in front of the Oceanographic Museum on Tuesday, greeted by the entire Foundation team and tourists amused by the event. An arrival worthy of the greatest champions attests the bottles of champagne sabred.

As an innovation designer at the Dutch superyacht builder Oceanco, Wim Verhoeff works on many of the largest and most expensive superyachts in the world. In fact, Oceanco’s most recent builds—Bravo Eugenia, Black Pearl and DreAMBoat—have already won critical acclaim and become some of the most recognizable yachts in the world…

Now that the London to Monaco charity bike ride just kicked off for the fourth year in a row to raise funds for the Blue Marine Foundation, a stir is being created in the lead up to the show because of the prominent members of the superyacht community who not only say they care about preserving the world’s oceans, but also are cycling to the Monaco Yacht Show from the UK (over 700-miles from Windsor Castle) to raise real money to do something about it!

With just a month to go until the London - Monaco Cycle Ride, we bring you five reasons to support the teams behind this fundraising event.

This week the Blue Marine Foundation started their London to Monaco ride. Starting in Windsor Park, we had the privilege of sending our marketing manager, Adam Glew, to join them on stage one of their fundraising ride from London to Portsmouth.

Rivergate Marina & Shipyard Director, Tom Hill will once again take part in the London to Monaco Ride, 17 to 24 September, cycling more than 1,000kms to raise funds for Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) and support its conservation efforts around the world.

There’s a lot more to the superyacht community than glitz and extravagance. In fact, not many people know just how dedicated, passionate and financially committed many superyacht builders, designers, owners and brokers etc. are to protecting the world’s oceans.

The annual London to Monaco bike ride in aid of the Blue Marine Foundation has announced that 2018 was its largest event to date. 120 riders took part in the various stages of this year’s cycle, which crossed eight countries and totalled 1,000 kilometres, ending at the Prince’s Palace in Monaco on September 26 to coincide with the Monaco Yacht Show.

Last Tuesday at high noon, September 25, 2018, a blue wave of a hundred solidarity cyclists, participating in the charity race organized by the Blue Marine Foundation lead by Clare Brook, rolled into the Prince’s Palace Square in Monaco.