Here is a blog to give you hope, plus a campaign to join if you are concerned about the amount of plastic in our oceans. Not only will you read below about new inventions and people literally pushing the boat out for the environment but also the Marine Conservation...
We want your opinion about holding tanks! Should they be compulsory in British waters? Or should sailors be allowed to put black and grey water into the sea? Below you will find a survey about holding tanks and if they should be compulsory in UK waters. Once we have...
As part of our survey about holding tanks, and if they should be made compulsory in UK waters, we’ve come across the locations of all the coast pump out stations. This information was originally gathered by The Green Blue who have also collated the details of...
In our series of Eco Blogs, First Class Sailing is discovering a variety of issues that concern people who use the seas. In the previous blog we highlighted Ecover's new bottle of which 10% of the plastic is reclaimed from the sea. We didn't realise that...
Ocean plastic has become, in recent years, an ever-growing and serious problem for our planet. The ocean’s ecosystem is very delicate, and is being severely damaged by the abundance of plastic waste being dumped into the seas. Thousands of creatures are being...
There’s a storm brewing in the waters off the South Coast... Navitus Bay Wind Park, a proposed wind farm off Dorset and the Isle of Wight, has submitted alternative plans to the Planning Inspectorate which includes less turbines spread across a smaller area, and...