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The Ocean's Sailing Heroes In Summer Sailstice

June 5, 2014 by jarndt
The Ocean's Sailing Heroes In Summer Sailstice

As we all know, if you're a fish, human activity has made life in the oceans much more difficult over the last century.  If you're a human, the changes in the oceans are having an increasing negative impact as well.  For sailors planning to sail in the Olympics on Guanabara Bay in Brazil the impact could practically be life threatening (Read more at Sailors for the Sea).

Thankfully numerous organizations, individuals, sailors and Summer Sailstice participants are stepping up to address the crisis on behalf of future generations of sailors and the fish.  Below is a list of some Summer Sailstice participants making an impact:

- You and Sailors for the Sea!  Many are joining with the Sailors for the Sea fundraising circumnavigation to sail a collective 26,000 miles.  Learn more and add your email to contirubute.

- Rozalia Project.  Based aboard Dodge Morgan's record-breaking circumnavigating sloop 'American Promise', Rozalia Project spends all year on ocean plastics and conservation and, on Summer Sailstice, will be hosting an event in Portsmouth, NH

- SEA Semester. This 40 year old organization takes students on education trips to learn ocean biology and more.  Both of their sailing ships are participating for Summer Sailstice, the SSV Robert C. Seamens in the Hawaiian Islands and the SSV Cornwith Cramer on a trans-Atlantic perhaps near the Azores on June 21.

- Ocean Research.org. Matt Rutherford and Nicole Trenholm are sailing trans-Pacific aboard the Schock Harbor 29-1 'Sakura' to study ocean plastics under sail.  Matt was also the guy who sailed singlehanded around the Americas from Annapolis to Annapolis aboard an Albin Vega 27!  Where are Matt and Nicole now?  Check their map here.

- Sail Drone.  If all goes well the next generation of Sail Drone will begin testing on Summer Sailstice as it prepares to do autonomous ocean research under sail.

- Ocean Sampling Day.  There are trillions of microbes in the ocean and only hundreds of ocean microbial scientists to study them all.  They'd love some help from sailors.  June 21 is also Ocean Sampling Day and sailors can become citizen scientists to help.  Read more here.

Again, you can help too by joining out collective circumnavigation with a contribution sail for Sailors for the Sea.  Sign up here.

Windpowered sailing is a generally benign way to enjoy the world's waters but, working together, we can all make it a force for cleaner waterways!  Come on aboard.

Saildrones will be doing ocean research under sail soon.  But it will take people too.  Sail the Sailors for the Sea Circumnavigation!

Rozalia Project's 'American Promise' will be open for tours.

 

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