WHAT IS TEAM VMG?Team VMG is the Butler family [Paul, Claire, Luke and Adam], who sail fast boats as fast as they can!
Years of doing this enable us to offer the following; Supply of the F-22 Trimaran We are UK agents for the F-22 by Farrier Marine Catamaran Coaching; Beginners to National youth squad level All types of Cat/Tri Race Officer; Experience to National Championship level Boat Building; Repairs Custom composite parts Farrier trimaran build, parts and repair To contact us ; teamvmg.f32@ntlworld.com 
Jules Verne Trophy
We thought it a good idea to try out our new wet-weather gear so took a flying visit to see Banque populaire come home from their round-the-world record run.
The French certainly get behind their sailors and put on a good show. How do you get a 14 meter mast in the back of a van?
Not much to it is there!
Thats my Christmas sorted - I'm off to the shed. More gear on the lawn!
Looking like a proper boat now, the F-32 has emerged into the sunshine
Training with Oman Sail
Adam was part of a team of UK cat sailors that were invited out to Oman to train with the Omansail Multihull squad A big thank you to them for sharing their hospitality, culture and country. Cowes week
Thanks to Grant for letting Paul out of the boatshed to sail on Freebird for the weekend of Cowes week.
Ben made the change from his Raider cat to do his first race on a Trimaran and was surprised how fast they tack in light airs - so much so that went over the back beam and into the drink on the first one! Once we stopped laughing, we got on with the race and managed to beat both Seacarts to the first windward mark and only had one just in front at the second. 2 Races - 2 wins. Very nice SL 16
Adam and Nikki are getting to grips with the SL16 again after a break of 2 years
Nice Colour! 
The Hobie 16 has gone to a new youth team in Denmark.
Adam and Nikki are now training and racing on the Spitfire 
Adam and Nikki Boniface won the 2009 Hobie 16 national Champs hosted by the Hobie Centre in Poole
Datchet SC open
Adam and Nikki have won the first Spitfire open of the year at Datchet Water.
Super sailing in the rain on Saturday, a bit fickle on the Sunday. All the fleet are getting on well together and making these weekends a bit of fun too. Come and join us! 
Adam Piggot and Luke at the 2009 F18 World Champs in Belguim
|  F-22 in the UK
EXCITING NEWS
Team VMG have been appointed as UK agents for the F-22 trimaran. The main mission at the moment is to channel information out to all those sailors that are enquiring and then to help Farrier Marine clear the backlog of orders once production starts. Ian Farrier visit
Ian and Alicia called in during their UK visit
Ian seemed to approve of my efforts to date I am always a little bit wiser after these visits - he just saved me a lot of effort and money in my mast building TEXEL
Is it ever calm in Texel?
The fleet took a right battering in the Dutch open, but the boys did well to come out of it 11th. They started the big race well, but pulled out after a damaging capsize VMG F18 Team!
Despite sailing on cats since their pre-teens, their outing at the Hobie 16 nationals was the first time that Luke and Adam have sailed together in competition.
They must have felt some potential in their teamwork because they took the plunge - and a Wildcat has arrived in the garden! A bit of tweaking over the winter then roll on spring! Hobie 16 nationals
The team defended our Hobie 16 national title - good work Adam and Luke
It was a breezy weekend with some really close racing. The VMG crew needed to win the last race to be sure to take the title, they crossed the line first - to silence........ They were OCS! They had to sit and watch the finishers behind them to see how things panned out. But by staying in the top 3 for all the races, they had done enough. RegFest 2010
Thanks to Will for the use of the Shockwave.
A great first day - 2nd in the F18s Then Luke's flue kicked back in and shortened the teams weekend ISAF Youth Worlds
Adam and Nikki lost the tie break for the bronze medal and finished 4th!
The bigger the event, the more that admin seems to take over from decent sailing. This event was really well run and the sailors had a great time. The sailing was 'Not the best' to put it mildly, going on late in the day to find any sort of breeze with courses very close inshore. Should there be raw sewage bobbing around in the launch area of ANY sailing event? Well done to the team - what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger! Youth National Champions!
Well done to Adam and Nikki Boniface for blitzing the fleet at the Volvo RYA Youth nationals.
They have also been selected for the GBR Team for the ISAF youth world championships this summer in Turkey. Time to get your heads back around sailing a SL16 guys 
Luke and Paul have been racing on Ben's Raider 30 cat in the MOCRA fleet.
They won the winter series |
