There was a spectacle of sailing boats leaving the dockside at Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort as the second Ocean Cruising Club (OCC) ‘Suzie Too Rally’ departed from Curaçao in late November. After weeks of preparation, the first 40 boats from nine different countries gathered together for the launch, excited to be on their way…
Around the world, sailors and other seafarers, including Ocean Cruising Club (OCC) members, are lowering round, 30cm white disks into the sea from the sides of their boats to study the oceans’ phytoplankton. The disk the seafarers are using is called a Secchi Disk and it is named after the Pope’s astronomer who invented it…
The new event is organized by Ocean Cruising Club member Suzanne Chappell and billed as “more like a big buddy boating rally, where everyone has freedom to hop in and hop out at any time visiting Cuba and then the Bahamas.” In information sent to All At Sea, Suzanne and her husband David said they…
The SeaBC Sea Bird Count is a citizen science project organized by a volunteer group of nine long-distance birding sailors from around the world. Themission of SeaBC is to benefit seabird conservation by mobilizing the worldwide boating community to document ocean bird sightings, providing critical and seldom-recorded data on seabird abundance and distribution, as well…