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Mooring buoys to protect precious coral reefs By Lee Mylchreest, 7:38 AM Sun 21 Oct 2012
Mooring buoys are being acknowledged around the world as the best way to preserve our coral and sealife in popular sailing and anchoring areas. Now another Florida area is moving to copy the world trend. Is the coral in your precious cruising grounds similarly protected? Or are sailors still destroying the coral with every sinking anchor? ...[more]

World's largest solar boat sails into climate change project By Nancy Knudsen, , 6:17 PM Sun 14 Oct 2012
She has circumnavigated the world in a demonstration of the efficacy of solar power, she has made a triumphant tour of the Mediterranean, and now she is about to help the cause of climate change science by monitoring the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean. It's Turanor, PlanetSolar, the gigantic strange craft which is the world's largest solar sailer. ...[more]

Plea to sailors of the world: It's not too late to save the ocean By Nancy Knudsen/Sailors for the Sea, 7:25 PM Sat 13 Oct 2012
'I spent two months sailing in the Baltic a couple of years ago,and I was struck by the virtually complete lack of sea life.In 64 days of sailing,we didn’t see a single marine mammal of any sort. They have nothing to eat. There are practically no fishing boats to be seen in the Baltic and no seagulls.' The words of Dr Ned Cabot, who lost his life overboard last month, doing what he loved, sailing ...[more]

Sustainable sailing - Eight tips about what you can do By Katie Jewett for Sailors for the Sea/Sail-World, 5:23 PM Thu 27 Sep 2012
With the world's oceans in crisis because of increasing pollution, acidification and over-fishing, the problem seems so large it can be daunting for any individual sailor. But there ARE things you can do, and here Katie Jewett, writing for 'Sailors for the Sea', tells: ...[more]

Superyachts lobby for access, changed rules on Barrier Reef By Des Ryan, 6:04 PM Mon 3 Sep 2012
Superyacht Australia has declared that their main task is providing 'superyachts with a possibility to cruise in the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef.' ...[more]

Another Solar Odyssey - around the USA's 'Great Loop' By Des Ryan, 9:43 AM Tue 31 Jul 2012
Just as Swiss/German inspired spectacular-looking Turanor PlanetSolar has completed the world's first ever circumnavigation on a craft powered by solar alone, a new venture now traversing the entire 'Great Loop' of the United States in a very different-looking solar craft, called Ra. Just now, it has had to put into the dock after hitting an underwater crab cage ...[more]

Change in salinity detected in the world’s oceans By CSIRO, 9:51 AM Thu 21 Jun 2012
In a paper published in the journal Science, Australian scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, reported varying patterns of salinity in the global ocean during the past fifty years, marking a clear fingerprint of climate change. ...[more]

Tres Hombres sailing cargo ship arrives, no room at the inn By Sail-World Cruising, , 2:01 PM Wed 23 May 2012
An engineless sailing ship with a charismatic cargo load of chocolates, rum, coffee, wine and cocoa beans has arrived in Portsmouth after a Transatlantic voyage seeking to make the point about sustainable transport, (See Sail-World story) but there was 'no room at the inn'. ...[more]

Tres Hombres - another sailing cargo ship By Nancy Knudsen, 7:08 AM Tue 8 May 2012
Along with the large-scale desecration of the planet in so many spheres are signs that aware activists are making small inroads into how to live sustainability - and getting back to sailing is part of the plan. One of these is a sail cargo company that has been operating out of Den Helder in Netherlands for the last 3 years - The Fair Transport company and their sailing ship the Tres Hombres. ...[more]

Another Solar Odyssey - around the USA's 'Great Loop' By Cirina Catania, Technorati/Sail-World, 7:29 AM Mon 7 May 2012
Just as Swiss/German inspired spectacular-looking Turanor PlanetSolar has completed the world's first ever circumnavigation on a craft powered by solar alone, a new venture is being prepared to traverse the entire 'Great Loop' of the United States in a very different-looking solar craft. ...[more]

PlanetSolar - she's arrived! First around the world on solar energy By Sail-World Cruising round-up, 6:22 AM Sun 6 May 2012
On Friday 4th May, after precisely 32,401nm, the MS Tûranor PlanetSolar arrived back into the Hercule Harbour in Monaco, thereby achieving the first around-the-world voyage with solar energy! ...[more]

The Waterfront Challenge - calling all sailors By Home Port Marketing/Sail-World, , 7:54 AM Sun 29 Apr 2012
The Waterfront Cleanup Project Awards, sponsored by Interlux in the USA is a program that many other countries, who don't yet have such a program, could emulate. The USA-based 2012 Interlux Waterfront Challenge is underway and community organizations should apply now. ...[more]

Bottom paint matters - San Diego waterways get a thumbs-up By Taylor Hill, The Log/Sail-World, , 10:24 AM Fri 27 Apr 2012
If you ever feel irritated by the fact that your anti-fouling doesn't work like it used to, be reassured by how much you are helping sealife to survive. In San Diego, California, new studies have found that using non-toxic bottom paint is actually having a marked effect - more than anticipated - on the sealife of the area. ...[more]

Solar-powered yacht's circumnavigation - in the home stretch By Sail-World Cruising, 10:41 AM Wed 18 Apr 2012
Turanor Planet Solar, the largest solar yacht in the world, has conquered the Red Sea and the Suez Canal and arrived in the Mediterranean. With the threat of pirates keeping all prudent sailors away from the Gulf of Aden approach to the Red Sea, theirs is not only a solar power triumph but also a pretty unusual voyage. ...[more]

Royal Yacht Squadron leads the armada against windfarm plan By Telegraph/Sail-World Cruising, 6:59 AM Mon 9 Apr 2012
Britain's most prestigious sailing club, the Royal Yacht Squadron, is orchestrating a campaign against the largest wind farm ever planned in the world, off the south coast of England. It fears the Navitus Bay wind farm could impact on the main sailing route from the Isle of Wight to the south west, including the Fastnet Race, which starts in Cowes and finishes in Plymouth. ...[more]

Where the whales are By Nicholas Woods, , 5:10 PM Fri 6 Apr 2012
There are patches in the ocean where right whales congregate to feed. Nobody knows how these patches form. But understanding why they do would certainly help design policies to conserve marine animals - and perhaps help cruising sailors to avoid contact. Nicholas Woods, in this Oceans Watch Essay, here describes an expedition into an Atlantic Ocean patch, located in the 'Great South Channel': ...[more]

GreenBlue wants a report card By Emma Slater/Sail-World, 10:53 AM Mon 19 Mar 2012
The UK division of GreenBlue wants a report card from the British sailing fraternity. Emma Slater writes:Take part in The Green Blue Survey 2012 and tell us what you think about the work of The Green Blue and you could be in with a chance of winning two fabulous directors chairs from Reefer Sails ...[more]

Sailing ketch Irene - goodbye billionaires, hello cargo! By Sail-World Cruising round-up, , 3:45 PM Sun 18 Mar 2012
Last month the British sailing ship Irene, a 1907 West Country trading ketch bought and restored by owner Dr Leslie Morrish in 1965 and restored again after a fire in 2003, set off from Plymouth on what may turn out to be an historic attempt to set the model for the return of sail power for cargo transport. ...[more]

Climate Change misconceptions and realities - an Ocean Watch Essay By Ocean Watch/Sail-World Cruising, 10:24 AM Wed 14 Mar 2012
The issue of climate change has received so much attention in recent years that it has become difficult for interested policymakers to separate facts from fiction, let alone the cruising sailor. But the natural world and its health is vital to the world of the cruising sailor, so we reprint this Ocean Watch Essay ...[more]

Gulf of Aden crossing and a pirate rendezvous - PlanetSolar By Raphaël Domjan, 9:23 AM Tue 6 Mar 2012
The crew of Turanor PlanetSolar, the largest solar-powered yacht on the planet and aiming to be the first to complete a circumnavigation, now break their radio silence to give the story of their trepidatious journey through the Gulf of Aden. Here, Raphaël Domjan, co-founder and expedition leader, tells the story: ...[more]

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