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Yachties Aid Haiti

From: Chris Bone
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Date: 24-01-10
Time: 08:13

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OceansWatch Haiti and Belize Projects - Aid to Haiti delivered on member sailboats...

Everyone has heard what has happened in Haiti, now it is time we do something to help out.

OceansWatch is helping to coordinate a fleet of sailing vessels to take food, medical aid, relief supplies and support to Haiti. As of today there are five boats in and around the Florida Keys and Virgin Islands preparing to depart +/- February 8 bound for Haiti. They will take as many supplies and materials as they can carry and we can get to them before they depart.

OceansWatch is working together with Seven Seas Cruising Association to help coordinate members, boats, donations, materials, supplies and crew preparing to shove off and deliver aid and lend a hand.

The 74’ Schooner “Wolf” http://www.schoonerwolf.com/ an experienced veteran at providing aid relief based in Key West, can carry 20 tons of cargo and is bound for Haiti on February 8th along with other vessels in a flotilla carrying a full cargo of aid supplies and volunteers.

Schooner "Wolf" S/V Tranquility

OceansWatch member vessel “Tranquility”, a 56’ Bruce Roberts design well found sailing workshop, http://www.worldcruisingguide.net/index.php?area_id=3608 is collecting food, supplies and donations to purchase more to deliver to Haiti in the next few weeks, and is also departing around February 8.

In Jamaica, the 52’ Ketch Karaka is organizing a flotilla of aid vessels. They were in Ile de Vache, Haiti when the earthquake stuck and retreated to Jamaica for safety due to the hoards of refugees, and also so that they could stock up on supplies for an organized return voyage with other boats.

Please help and donate in any amount or way you are able. 100% of all donations to OceansWatch for Haiti relief will be used directly for purchasing supplies to be delivered and donated in Haiti. OceansWatch has no overhead, salaries, marketing or administrative expenses, so 100% of donations will go directly to aid with none used up in administrative costs or any other non-aid expense.

OceansWatch is a 501(c)3 not profit (pending approval) so all donations are tax deductible. Please donate whatever you are able by going to the Donate Now page on our website and use the Paypal link to donate from your Paypal account or by credit card. Cash and check donations can be mailed to Haiti Relief, OceansWatch North America, P. O. Box 616, Norwalk, CT 06856 USA. Please make any checks payable to OceansWatch and put Haiti Relief on the Expense/For line.

If you have supplies of goods, food, shelter, medicines, tools, tarps, water containers, shipping containers, any items needed, that you would like to send to OceansWatch for us to get to Haiti, email us and we will send you the delivery address so we can get them to one of the boats heading that way.

If you have a boat in Florida or the Caribbean or would like to join the crew on one of the boats, please email usa-info@oceanswatch.org with your experience and skills offer and availability and we will try to hook you up to join the fleet or with a berth on one of the boats heading to Haiti.

And also, please take a moment to check out the new OceansWatch North America Blog site at http://blogs.oceanswatch.org/north-america where we are posting every day about activities from our team in Belize. OWNA Director Sequoia Sun and OceansWatch conservation biologist member Sara Aubery, along with OW members Daniel Thee, Jim Gregory and the Leslie family, are working with many Belizean organizations every day to set up conservation and educational projects that you and other OceansWatch members and volunteers can join in to help preserve and maintain the Meso American Reef, Belize Marine Reserves, World Heritage Sites, Cayes and marine habitat in Belize which is among both the most diverse and the most threatened in the world.

We are setting up partnerships with organizations all over Belize for OW members to join in on many projects: planting Mangroves, taking school children on field trips out to the Cayes and Marine Reserves, teaching young people to swim, snorkel and scuba dive, making and installing demarcation buoys for the boundaries of the Marine Reserves, installing and maintaining yacht moorings, cultivating coral polyps, monitoring fish, mammals and reef health and conditions, catching the invasive Lionfish, monitoring dolphins, and many more opportunities await any and all members who would like to come to Belize to get involved with helping to preserve the reefs, Cayes and waters.

Please email to usa-info@oceanswatch.org if you might like to join in on our next trip here in April or May and please visit the Blog site frequently and leave any comments for us to read and share.

We will be posting more info on the blog site and web site frequently to keep current with projects, plans and developments so stay tuned and track what is going on if you care and want to help.

Wishing you “Fair Winds” from Sequo

Last changed: 24-Jan-2010