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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.
This is one of those posts that I’m simply compelled to write. I can’t tell you why. All I can say is this: After literally riding THOUSANDS of miles over the last four years in the London to Monaco ride to help the Blue Marine Foundation draw attention to the crisis our oceans are facing, and more importantly, to help them raise an enormous amount of money to help protect a significant portion of the world’s most fragile ocean habitats, I could not think of a more worthy ocean-centric charity to support.
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.
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.
“Here we go!!!!” he captioned the snap. “The start of the London – Monaco for the @Bluemarinef. Sure it will be fun!!!”
The Queen’s granddaughter and her husband pedaled the first leg of an event supporting the world’s oceans. Zara and Mike Tindall hopped on to bicycles to launch a charity ride raising awareness and funds for ocean conservation.
The Queen’s granddaughter and her husband pedaled the first leg of an event supporting the world’s oceans
"Going into the ride the first time I didn't know I had a blood disease,” says Tom, who has represented Australia in swimming and cycles 350km every week.
"I knew I had an issue, but I didn't know what it was. I would wake up in the morning and feeling like I'd just done 1000 lunges.”
The couple set off on the first leg of the London-to-Monaco cycle ride, pedalling from Herne Hill Velodrome in south London to Dover. They joined more than 100 cyclists who are taking part in the seven-day ride
As CEO of the Blue Marine Foundation, Clare Brook is tasked with a monumental challenge: trying to slow and effectively stop industrial overfishing on a worldwide scale. Blue Marine has been making headway. Over 1.5 million square miles of ocean are now protected—from Ascension Island, in the middle of the Atlantic (and a favorite nesting place of sea turtles), to St. Helena, off the coast of lower Africa. But there’s still much more work to be done.
Exceptionally active, prior to 2016 Tom would cycle on average 350km a week. Then, suddenly during the inaugural London-to-Monaco ride in 2016, an unexpected storm dropped the temperature causing Tom’s knee to swell taking him out of the race and straight to Monaco to receive treatment. After being bedridden for 8 months and a slew of tests, Tom discovered that he has a rare and aggressive form of arthritis eating away at his bones, muscles, and ligaments.
Sara-Jane Skinner of the Blue Marine Foundation has invited all members of the COCC to participate in the final day of this year’s London to Monaco 2018 Charity ride
