Following its launch last year, the non-profit Water Revolution Foundation is focusing attention on five key activities. The organization believes these will make a positive difference for the yachting industry’s environmental footprint. Established last fall, Water Revolution Foundation aims to change yachting’s image. It’s an initiative for the yachting industry, by the yachting industry. The Continue reading
Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary effort. That characterized the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which saw historic damage throughout the Caribbean. Thankfully, it saw an equally historic response. YachtAid Global, which organizes disaster relief and other aid to global coastal communities, helped mobilize nearly four dozen yachts, and nearly 1,000 crewmembers. With the Atlantic hurricane season Continue reading
Exactly one month ago, Irma made landfall on Barbuda as a Category 5 hurricane. Adding insult to injury, Maria came through the Caribbean, also as a Category 5, on September 19. Barbuda, Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, Turks and Caicos, and both the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, among others, are struggling to rebuild. As much Continue reading