We shared our story and plans with the members of the Bluewater Cruising Association in Currents Magazine this month.
There’s a heated debate ensuing on the deck of Freeranger. The point in question is whether we should be using ‘the big’ or ‘the small’ weight to maximise our chance of success. Around us other boats aren’t waiting around. Bobbing away in the midday sun, whoops of glee and calls of “fish on” can be heard as everyone makes the most of the newly opened Coho season. The fish are biting. The FOMO is real. But we’re not there for the fish. We’re figuring out how to take a depth reading for the Secchi Disk citizen science project – a study of phytoplankton changes in the world’s oceans – and our Secchi Disk won’t sink properly thanks to the current.
“We could just get fishing and tell the Department of Fisheries about the size of anything we catch for their study instead” says our seven-year-old eyeing up his rod and lucky lure hopefully. But conditions are otherwise perfect, and we’re keen to take our first Secchi depth reading as one of many citizen science projects we’ll be contributing to on our world voyage....
- READ the full story here!
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