Notes on the Ocean

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

  Sailors, one of the best things about sailing is that we get to traverse the entire watery world on this planet we call home . Exploring new and ...

  Through August 2021, Clean Sailors lead, Holly Manvell, has been sailing the Azores with Dr. Roman Lehner and our partner, Sail & Explore A...

    Much like spring meadows and the grassy fields we see on land, there are similar areas underwater made up of seagrasses. Underwater gardens fi...

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 ‘...

  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...

Meet the worlds most littered item and the biggest plastic contaminant of our oceans - cigarette butts. Cigarettes are still very popular things, ...

Heard about how our usual sunscreen is damaging our marine life and coral reefs? Sailors, it's time for us to seek reef-safe, ocean-friendly sun...

The first in our series on plastic, we've pulled together some of the top, simple things we Sailors can do to help limit our single-use plastic imp...