Clean Ocean Sailing - clearing up abandoned boats on Fal and Helford Estuaries in Cornwall
The Crew at Clean Ocean Sailing have cleared over 30 wrecks from Fal and Helford foreshores over the last few years.
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5/8/20242 min read
With the help of their amazing crew of volunteers, VW Cecil's crane and a few dedicated fundraisers and donations, Clean Ocean Sailing have hauled over 30 of abandoned boats from the Fal and Helford foreshores.
Clean Ocean Sailing are raising funds to support the clearance, transport and disposal of a further 20 wrecks. It costs £500 per ton just for disposal of fibreglass.
About Clean Ocean Sailing
Clean Ocean Sailing is an award winning Cornish voluntary organisation dedicated to cleaning our coasts and oceans sustainably under sail, and raising awareness about ocean plastics. With the help of The Annette 117-year old wooden sailing vessel and smaller crafts, we sail and paddle and row to remote, inaccessible places to clean up our coast by collecting plastic from the shores and sorting, recording, reusing and recycling it.
In doing so, COS contributes to the creation of a circular economy around marine plastics, striving to raise awareness about the Ocean Crisis and its consequences for local, national and global communities. Our central message is to Rethink, Recover, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle the marine plastic devastating our marine environments. Whilst also championing research and promotion of less consumption and consumerism and finding suitable alternatives for plastics across many industries.
We work with volunteers of all ages and backgrounds. So far together, we have recovered over 70 tons of marine waste. COS activities are achievable by all, encouraging people from every walk of life to join in and empowering us to make a positive difference to marine environment and our own mental health.
Clean Ocean Sailing is a not-for-profit organisation, run by a group of volunteers, with no mainstream funding. All our clean-up activities are only possible thanks to the generosity of individuals through crowdfunding. We have the people power, the equipment, and the drive in abundance to make our Helford River and beyond free, not just of plastic wrecks, but also their toxic and far-reaching legacy if they are left to continue to degrade in the river.
