Help Send Me To The Atlantic Gyre

by **tippy toes** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:28 pm

best of luck in the sea my friend. we will be thinking of you and hoping for a safe journey.
xo

by **Lil' Snowy Plover** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:56 am

Just got back, will share some stories soon. Sailing across the Atlantic in winter is heavy. Cheers all, voyage of a lifetime. Oh, and I did find surf in my new favorite place on earth, The Azores.

by **Spider** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:14 pm

great - can't wait for the stories.

by **Lil' Snowy Plover** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:31 pm

Here's a little one.

http://www.wendmag.com/greenery/2010/02 ... age-patch/

by **bluesilver** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:59 pm

not working

by **Lil' Snowy Plover** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:42 am

700 miles SE of Bermuda---

by **pra_ggresion** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:38 pm

You went 700 miles SE of Bermuda and that's all you found!?

by **Lil' Snowy Plover** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:59 am

Not exactly--- Think of it this way, 72 feet, 15 wide, in the vast wilderness of the ocean. You're moving. And then you come across a bunch of garbage. You pick up what you can with three pool nets in the space of twenty minutes. Then you move on. That's the big stuff, and we had countless instances of coming across it. The science part was dragging a trawl every 50-100 miles over a 3000 mile transect. The trawl is designed to pick up plastic fragments. In each of the 37 trawls, we found plastic fragments. Everytime.

by **pra_ggresion** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:09 pm

Sounds like a much better use for a trawl then factory fishing away every critter on the bottom of the sea.

by **Wilbur Kookmeyer** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:59 pm

I could find twice that amount walking down the beach here and it ouwl dnnot have costed 10 grand to get there and back.

You better come heavier than that man....

by **riverjetty** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:31 pm

pra_ggresion wrote:Sounds like a much better use for a trawl then factory fishing away every critter on the bottom of the sea.

No doubt, plastic tastes awesome deep fried with chips.

by **pra_ggresion** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:41 am

I feel obliged to point out that fish can be caught without the use of a factory trawler and would be better for local economies and the ocean if small crew operations did all the catching.

I could find twice that amount walking down the beach here and it ouwl dnnot have costed 10 grand to get there and back.

You better come heavier than that man....

I don't think the purpose was to just look at it.

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