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boatporn · 7 months

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Hey, that’s kinda a good idea.

#climate action #conservation

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boatporn · 7 months

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#boatporn #sailing #35mm

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boatporn · 7 months

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What happened to Eleonora?

Essentially a very, very expensive three point turn gone wrong.

#boatporn #herreshoff #sailing #Eleonora #schooner

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boatporn · 7 months

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RIP Eleonora 🥲

#boatporn #sailing #schooner #j class #eleanora #lionheart #big boats #regatta #herreshoff #starling burgess #Olin Stephens

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boatporn · 7 months

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Just guys peering through tubes 🥰🔭🥰

The Captain and his First Lieutenant

#sailing #age of sail #master and commander #aubreyad

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boatporn · 7 months

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Setting a new record in polar circumnavigation 🤝 gathering data while doing it

Australian world record solo sailor Lisa Blair has revealed the shocking extent of microplastic pollution in the Southern Ocean in the most comprehensive data collection achieved with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), recorded during her non-stop record winning race around Antarctica in 2022.

She set a new world record, becoming the fastest person in the world to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica and the first women to do so. Lisa completed the journey in 92 days in 2022, taking 10 days off the previous record set by Fedor Konyukhov in 2008.

Working in partnership with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and supported by the Integrated Marine Observing Systems (IMOS), she was able to complete the first near-continuous microplastics survey in Southern Ocean waters. A total of 178 seawater samples were collected from the sub-surface of the Southern Ocean and 83 samples have been processed and analyzed.

“While I was expecting to find some plastic in the Southern Ocean, I wasn’t at all prepared for every sample collected to have microplastics present,” she said.

This finding confirms that like other oceans, the Southern Ocean is similarly broadly contaminated with microplastics regardless of proximity to land sources and at Point Nemo, Blair was in the most isolated place on earth.

Across all samples, the average concentration of microplastics collected was equivalent to 58,500 particles per an average Olympic size swimming pool.

Microplastic concentrations even around Point Nemo, were around the average, indicating that ocean currents are likely to be influencing the levels of contamination rather than proximity to anthropogenic activity areas.

#conservation #sailing #microplastics #how many people are going to unfollow me for this one?

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boatporn · 7 months

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Skylark out of the water. #woodenboat #boat #sailing

#boatporn #woodenboat #autumn #October

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boatporn · 7 months

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It’s that time of year, folks.

Phoenix (by lollopins)

#boatporn #sailing #woodenboat #dark harbor 17 #bb crowninshield #Maine #autumn #October #new england

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boatporn · 7 months

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I feel like pendulum implies that you’re suspended from something; this feels more like a metronome to me.

sail handling; the royal and the top galant.

#boatporn #tall ship #sailing #age of sail

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boatporn · 7 months

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I think it’s hilarious when people unfollow boatporn - like, what? Were the boats not lusty enough for you? Are you upset? What were you expecting? Why did your needs change?

Anyways, here’s Columbia.