Humpback Whales, Plastic Pollution, Sailors For The Sea (videos)

#RaisingTheBAR: Protecting the Environment

Published Apr 13, 2017: The humpback whales have arrived in Bermuda! We are #RaisingTheBAR and protecting our pitch with the help of Team 11th Hour Racing by saying NO to single use plastics.

Sailors For The Sea - Talking Trash

Video above published Apr 4, 2017: As many sailors know, our oceans, lakes, rivers, and coasts are littered with plastic. In fact, 8 million metric tons of plastic enters the ocean from land every year. That’s enough to cover every coastline on earth and is equal to 1.5 million cars. Plastic pollution also creates 13 billion dollars of damage to marine ecosystems in the U.S. alone.

BUT don’t get overwhelmed by the statistics. There is a way you can help fix this mess. Sign up now: http://sailorsforthesea.org/plastic-pollution --Be the solution to plastic pollution!

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Quantum Key West Race Week, January 17-22 (video)

Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 UPDATES:



Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 - Thursday Sailing Highlights -Another great day on the water with most classes getting in three races. Highlights from all Divisions. Published on Jan 21, 2016


UPDATE: Quantum Key West 2016 - Division 2, Day 3 video


Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 - Wednesday Sailing Highlights - Jan 20, 2016: With a big change in the weather perfect sailing conditions returned with most classes getting in three races.


Monday and Tuesday at Quantum Key West Race Week, which has a new look with Storm Trysail Club's management.

UPDATE: Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 - Division 3, Day 1 video - (Published Jan 19, 2016):

UPDATE: Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 - Monday Highlights - 18 Jan 2016 - 

Monday lived up to KWRW standards with big breeze.


Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 Storm Trysail Club Key West, FL, USA January 17-22, 2016

Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 joins Clean Regattas Program --"The Storm Trysail Club is proud to announce that Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 is doing its part to restore ocean health by participating in Sailors for the Sea’s Clean Regattas Program. Organizers at the Storm Trysail Club, which took over management of Quantum Key West Race Week last year, will implement several measures at this year’s regatta with the goal of achieving “Bronze Level” Clean Regattas certification.“All responsible sailors should do their part to make as little impact as possible on the environment,” said John Fisher, chairman of Quantum Key West Race Week 2106. “The Storm Trysail Club believes strongly in the Clean Regatta Program and is committed to doing everything possible to minimize the environmental footprint of our events.”   The Storm Trysail Club embraced the Clean Regatta Program this past year by bringing the 50th anniversary edition of Block Island Race Week into compliance. The club unanimously agreed it was a positive step in the right direction and wanted to extend the initiative to Quantum Key West Race Week. “Storm Trysail is proud to host this largest and most diverse international regatta in North America,” said Commodore Lee Reichart, “and we are embracing the program for the first time in this event’s long history. We are committed to work towards higher levels of certification in the future since this is an important alignment with the principles of our permit to respect the ecosystems in the waters of the National Marine Sanctuary off of Key West.” more info: Quantum Key West Race Week, Key West, FL, USA and keywestraceweek.com/2016blog/

Results: Quantum Key West Race Week 2016 on Yacht Scoring

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Sailing In Pollution Fight, Sailors for the Sea, 11th Hour Racing

“It’s way worse than any of these people imagine,” said Ian Walker, the British skipper and former Olympic silver medalist who won the Volvo Ocean Race in June on Abu Dhabi. “People think the pollution in Rio’s in the harbor, and it’s fine out at Copacabana and on the open sea. But I remember sailing in from the ocean, and when you are about 50 miles out, you hit the stench and the changing color in the water. So even the people who go in the water swimming off Copacabana beach every day are basically swimming in filth, but they don’t realize it.” (source: NYTimes, infra)

In Pollution Fight, Sailing World Has Just Scratched Surface - The New York Times: “We need a leader like Sailors for the Sea or other organizations to help get us all together,” he said as he prepared for his second Sydney-Hobart."

Environmental groups linked closely with the sport of sailing are already focused on ocean health. Those include two based in Newport: Sailors for the Sea, founded by David Rockefeller Jr., and 11th Hour Racing, co-founded by the philanthropist Wendy Schmidt and her husband, Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, via the Schmidt Family Foundation.

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Rocking the Boat and 11th Hour Racing -
Published on Dec 17, 2015 - Short video highlighting 11th Hour Racing's grantee Rocking the Boat.

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