Notes on the Ocean

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 ‘...

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...

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 suncream... The go...

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...