Notes on the Ocean

 As Sailors, we try not to dump anything in our seas. Common sense, right, and not all that hard if we put our minds to it. But there’s one yearly ...

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

  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...

  Chartering a boat is one of the best ways to holiday (we think!). Whether exploring a new coastline, swimming off the side or getting to grips ...

Sailors, for those of us who own boats, we understand full well the time and energy that goes in to priming, protecting and scrubbing our bottoms...

'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...

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 ‘...

  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 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, ...