Sustainable Sailing Go Green When You Cast Off

by Loibner, Dieter

• ISBN13: 9781574092844
• ISBN10: 1574092847
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Sheridan House

Summary

Sailing is by nature a sustainable activity, but polluted waters and crowded marinas, boatyards, and anchorages are signs that problems must be addressed in order to keep it that way. Sailors pump sewage overboard and burn fossil fuels that pollute water and air. They use toxic paints to retard marine growth and stuff their boats with gadgets that devour electricity, which often comes from coal-fired power plants. And where do all the plastic boats go once they have reached the end of their useful life?

Author Biography

Dieter Loibner, an editor and boating writer, holds a PhD in journalism. He has written hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles about sailing for publications around the world and collaborated with many of the world's most successful sailing photographers. His international sailing and racing career spans more than 30 years. He is the author of The Folkboat Story (Sheridan House).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Pollution is personal	p. 3
How green is sailing?	p. 6
People, planet, profit	p. 9
Sizing Up the Issues	p. 13
The value of green	p. 15
Sailors for sustainability	p. 19
Small steps in the right direction	p. 20
More People, More Sailors?	p. 23
The curve of consumption	p. 25
The cost of fuel	p. 27
Climate Change 101	p. 30
Fingerprinting the causes	p. 32
Warmer water, weirder weather	p. 33
Sea levels rising	p. 36
Loss of biodiversity	p. 38
Deliberations of Design	p. 40
Lighten the load	p. 45
The proper prop	p. 47
Sustainable from scratch	p. 50
What else is outside the box?	p. 53
Fossil-fuel Propulsion	p. 57
Solving one problem by creating a new one	p. 58
Cleaning up diesel	p. 60
Gasoline engines	p. 64
Choosing an outboard	p. 69
The Fuss over Fuels	p. 72
Biodiesel	p. 72
Ethanol	p. 75
Using less but going farther	p. 78
Fuel and oil spills	p. 80
Oil change	p. 85
Preventive care	p. 86
Calculating the carbon footprint	p. 88
Alternative Propulsion	p. 91
Diesel-electric propulsion	p. 92
Serial hybrids	p. 95
Regeneration	p. 96
Parallel hybrids	p. 99
Electric propulsion	p. 103
Renewable Energy	p. 109
Solar power	p. 110
Wind generators	p. 114
Tow generation	p. 116
Fuel cells	p. 119
Heads or Travails?	p. 126
Turds vs. turdes	p. 128
The law and the Y-valve	p. 129
A greener solution	p. 132
Maintaining the Edge	p. 135
Clean and green	p. 135
The copper conundrum	p. 138
Clean marinas	p. 144
The Plight of Plastic	p. 150
From plastic to Plastiki	p. 155
It lasts a lifetime (or two)	p. 159
Other forms of plastic	p. 167
Sick Oceans, Sick Planet	p. 171
Building awareness	p. 172
Conservation education	p. 175
Miscellaneous Virtues	p. 180
Folding a bike	p. 182
Fractional ownelrship	p. 186
Reviving tattered sails	p. 188
LED lighting	p. 192
Sustainable Cruising	p. 195
Preparing for an ocean crossing	p. 196
Living with limitations	p. 197
Keepers and castaways	p. 198
Index	p. 203
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