Browsing Category Cruising Green
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Solar-Assisted, Volcanic-Composite Sailboat Navigating World’s Toughest Waters
Carbon fiber has established itself as a wonder material in vehicle construction, with its mix of low weight and high strength being prized for many of the world’s ...
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First Scientific Stop In The Azores For The Race For Water Odyssey
Having left Bordeaux (France) on March 15, the “Race for Water Odyssey” scientific sailing expedition, which aims to protect the oceans from plastic pollution, arrived in the Azores ...
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Sailors for the Sea Launches New Magazine
Sailors for the Sea recently launched a new online magazine called Ocean Watch that aims to inform readers about the issues facing the waters where they sail and ...
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Show the Ocean Some Love
This Valentine’s Day, leading conservation organization Sailors for the Sea is asking millions of U.S. boaters and others to show the ocean some love in celebration of Valentine’s Day, February ...
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Become a Citizen Oceanographer: Help Scientists Close the Data Gap
Planning an open ocean cruise? If so, you are the key to helping scientists better understand the health of the world’s oceans. When we look across the limitless ...
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VOR Sailors See Disturbing Amounts of Pollution in Asia
Bouwe Bekking, skipper of Team Brunel, is not impressed with what he has seen in Asian waters. His focus is the amount of garbage witnessed during the Volvo ...
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Study Says 270,000 Tons of Plastic Floating in Oceans
A new study estimates nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world’s oceans. That’s enough to fill more than 38,500 garbage trucks. The plastic is broken ...
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100 Trans-Atlantic Sailboats Rally for Science
Before the new year, crew members from 100 sailboats are set to collect 600 ocean water samples from a 602,000-square-nautical-mile area in the Atlantic Ocean for ASC’s microplastics ...
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Our Oceans: Why we should care?
Who doesn’t love a good info graphic these days, click on it to enlarge… ...
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30 Days on the Bay with the Ocean Research Project
In case you thought a leisurely, month-long sail from Norfolk to Annapolis in Chesapeake summer sounds like fun, let’s examine Exhibit A: Matt Rutherford, who spent 30 days ...
