Notes on the Ocean

'Bioplastics' - they are becoming pretty popular and not least due to the the need for us to be shifting away from our use of the traditional ever...

    Sailors, Whilst every day might be Earth Day over here in camp Clean Sailors, today is OFFICIALLY Earth Day - the day when we all, all ove...

When it comes to cleaning seas, there are few people who beat us to it than Yvan Bourgnon.  A talented Franco-Swiss sailor, Yvan started sailing ...

When we wash dishes, take a shower, brush our teeth and clean our boats, guess where our wastewater ends up? Yup, the sea.  So, let’s talk about ‘...

Studies show that our maritime industry emits around 940million tonnes of CO2 annually, over 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Capt. Jorne L...

  Over the last few months, we have been sharing our research on microplastics; what they are, how they get into the ocean, why they are an issue a...

For centuries, us sailors have used the power of the wind to move across waters – from small lakes and long canals to crossing our largest oceans ...

Sailors, 2020 was a lot of things – we were disrupted and shaken-up. Things changed, for our societies and importantly, for our environments. Swat...

  In our last plastics feature, we talked about Microplastics; how all plastics break down into tiny, microscopic pieces over time. Because plasti...

The best films, books and podcasts on sailing and the ocean that we've found so far!

  For hundreds of years, historians have defined periods of time by the materials and technologies that made the greatest impact on society and ...

'Microplastics'. We've all heard of them, but what do they mean for us and the waters we sail? Sailors, forget the saying out of sight, out of mi...