Some while ago I had a little rant about plastic and rubbish ‘thrown’ overboard by fellow yachting folk. I was so incensed that I dropped the editor of Yachting Monthly a letter. They responded, which is more that the commodore of my own yacht club, as far as I am aware…

See:  http://nickardley.com/rubbish-ditch-crawler-can-only-agree/

Currently I’m sailing with a sibling and two friends and all have been astounded by the amount of ‘plastic’ littering the Thames estuary seen on our passage yesterday to Harty Ferry. I begs belief, but there we are. Bottles, balloons, bags, packages galore.

It’s sad…

Photograph of the YM letter…