Clean Ocean Sailing

Join us! We are on a mission to remove marine pollution from the hard to reach parts of our shores. 

We founded Clean Ocean Sailing with the
aim of cleaning our coasts and oceans sustainably under sail, and raising
awareness about ocean plastics. We are restoring our 115-year old sailing boat The Annette - mothership of Clean Ocean Sailing. 

 

We are <ul><li>Sailing, rowing and paddling to
inaccessible places to collect marine litter</li><li>Running workshops on repurposing and
recycling marine litter</li><li>Raising awareness in our community about
the amount of plastic waste in our marine environment and the damage it does</li><li>Inspiring a wider audience to join the
fight against plastic pollution by organizing shared events and experiences</li><li>Restoring ‘The Annette’ as a craft with an environmental mission</li></ul>

 

We have owned our beloved boat The Annette for just
over 15 years now. She is a gaff-rigged schooner, 66 foot,
55 tonnes, extremely strong carvel oak planked on oak frames. She was
built to sail in the harshest conditions and is, to this day, extremely
seaworthy. 

 

For her 110th birthday we are giving her a vital new
purpose. She is going fishing again, but this time not for fish - for marine
plastic! 

 We started weighing, counting and recording
the amount of marine litter that we collected on our cleanups in December 2017.
Since then, we have collected over 55 tons of man-made rubbish from the
sea. 

More than 200 volunteers have joined us,
lending a hand in their various areas of expertise to help us make the movement
work in bigger scale. They help us on cleanups, in restoring The Annette, with
social media, office work, graphic design, making videos, writing articles,
talking to and helping businesses to become plastic free, coordinating events
and motivating us to continue to carry on with our vital mission. 

 

We are very grateful and happy to have
this amazing team of volunteers on board with us at Clean Ocean Sailing. We
wouldn’t be able to achieve any of this without volunteers, partners and our
financial supporters! 

Let’s create a bigger community to
continue looking after our marine environment on a wider scale. The ocean is
huge, and we are just tiny fish swimming in it. We are committed to doing our
best to clean up the horrendous amount of plastic litter that humans
are putting in to the rivers and ocean each moment, and we’d love to have you
on board. 

 

You can be part of Clean Ocean Sailing
right now. 

 

Become our Patron. 

 For more details visit <a href="http://www.cleanoceansailing.com">www.cleanoceansailing.com</a> or follow us on social media.  WE ARE NEW ON PATREON, OUR PAGE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS! :) Please feel free to comment, lend us your advice and your expertise: what are we missing, what we could change etc. We love to hear from you! And we would love YOU to become our patron.

Free

Thank you for choosing to support our mission! 
 
We’ll thank you on our website and social media. We will keep sending you videos, pictures and articles about our ecological sailing adventures.
 
 For every $2 we can pick up a handful of deadly marine rubbish.

You are on board

On any water we cross, you are sailing too!
 
Your name will be burned into the wood on our mothership, the 110-year-old wooden boat The Annette  (Plus You are on board tier all included).
 
For every $10 we can find and support new volunteers for our cleanups.

Your name will sail with us

Welcome to our pirate fan club!
 
Every once in a while you will get a random surprise one creations we do on the side (Plus Your name sailing with us tier all included).
 
As little as $20 donation clears one mile of coastline.

You are a proper pirate!

You can sign up for a prize draw!
 
Every 6 months we will organize an event to invite you to one day’s sailing adventure. (Plus Your name sailing with us tier all included)
 
For every $30 donation we can collect 30kg of marine litter from inaccessible beaches.

Adventure with Clean Ocean Sailing 

You’ll get a treat from one of our local partners in Cornwall: options include the Seal Sanctuary, Budock Vean Hotel and many more (Plus your name sailing with us, all included).
 
For every £50 donation we can afford life jackets for the kids who volunteer with us.

You are our great local patron!

You are investing in the future of a historic sailing boat with a great environmental mission!
 
You are always welcome to meet us on board our beloved boat (Plus Your name sailing with us tier all included).
 
For every £100 we can caulk, sand and paint one square meter of the boat.

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