Checking In

Clean Up Sound and Harbors (CUSH), a Stonington, CT-based non-profit organization with a mission to clean up and protect Fishers Island Sound and its coves, inlets, bays, rivers and harbors, has a number of volunteer opportunities. These include: Oyster shell collection from local restaurants: Research viability of collecting shells for possible introduction into local estuaries to create new bottom structure for aquaculture or wild set oysters Oyster gardening: Research viability for growers to set oysters under docks…

US Sailing, the National Governing Body of the sport, and TropicSport, an industry leading skin care and sunscreen brand, have developed a partnership to better educate the sailing community on how to protect their skin from the harmful effects of the sun using eco-friendly products. TropicSport is a complete skin care system that includes reef-friendly mineral sunscreens and after-sun face and body cleansers and moisturizers. Made in the USA from natural ingredients, TropicSport was formulated to work…