January-February 2012

There are lots of interesting and exciting things happening for sailors in the Northeast in the upcoming year. As we looked back upon 2011 in the December issue, we are looking ahead to 2012 in this issue.

By SAILORS FOR THE SEA Sailors for the Sea has written a lot of about plastics on our website, and we have more than once highlighted the concept of the ocean gyres, where so-called “islands of trash” float, trapping fish, choking birds, and growing larger with the passage of time. Despite widespread concurrence on the subject, confusion remains, due to the fact that these gyres are not actually floating mats of garbage the size of entire states, an image fostered…