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CRUISING

If you’re interested keep your eye on this page to keep abreast of the latest moves

The main aims are to help new and established cruisers to sail in company and safety for the good of both clubs. With a friendly atmosphere

Unfortunately the cruising section is still in dock at the moment due to the poor weather over the last two years or so  that has rather scattered the fleet hopefully only temporarily. We are in need of a fleet skipper to round them up, organise them and take them to exotic places in the East, West and South of Plymouth and encourage them to explore the local hostelries and restaurants at their destinations and produce a log to win the DPC trophy for the best log..

A reminder that there is a trophy ( The DCP cup ) for the best log presented through the Year. ( put pen and pictures to paper and win this years pot.)

PLASTIC The progress of mankind has wreaked havoc on the environment in many ways, but few as depressing as revealed this year in the form of this image of an albatross carcase found in the Pacific Ocean. Mother birds fly to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - an enormous floating vortex of plastic debris that has been brought together by ocean currents - and bring back what they think is food for their young. The chicks, which cannot digest the plastic, often starve to death. About 80 per cent of plastic debris in the ocean is discarded on land, and kills more than a million seabirds each year. The total global production of plastic reached 260 million tons this year, up from 150 million in the mid-1990s.