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    YOURCRUISING COMMUNITY

    Sep 16, 2021 4 minutes

    Send your sailing gossip, diary dates, cruising news and club or owners’ association updates to Laura Hodgetts laura.hodgetts@futurenet.com

    Disabled sailor celebrates £10k for charity

    In a year when charities have struggled with fundraising due to COVID-19, one determined sailor and her family are celebrating raising £10,000 through a transatlantic adventure.

    Natasha Lambert, 23, who has quadriplegic athetoid cerebral palsy, successfully crossed the Atlantic in a Nautitech Open 46 catamaran, specially adapted by her dad Gary.

    Its unique sip and puff system, which enables Natasha to use her breath to steer the boat and trim the sails, uses Open Source software, a series of switches, a

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