Mass Kiters... please help us clean your ocean

Hello kiters,

Rachael here from Stormboarding (kitesurfing/snowkiting school on Lake Champlain in Vermont). I hope you are all enjoying the liquid water season. We are (and looking forward to the snow season as always).

We have a new project to clean up the trash in our oceans/rivers/bays and got into a funding contest. We announced it back in the spring and have been hard at work, we found an amazing boat (built in Marblehead for Dodge Morgan to sail around the world) and then realized it needs work before taking it to sea (for all the stories from our trip up the coast see rozaliaproject.blogspot.com) and now I would be grateful for help from kiters, sailors, surfers... people who love and use the water. Read on and please vote for us (and enjoy your summer on the water)...

The Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean is dedicated to finding and removing trash and marine debris from the ocean and working with waterfront groups, municipalities, non-profits, individuals, sailing centers, yacht clubs and people who want to protect the water to get cleaning and spread the word about marine debris, it's prevention and how to be part of the solution.

You can be part of the solution during the month of August by voting for us on the Pepsi Refresh Project. Once registered (they do not fill your inbox with spam), it will only take 60 seconds per day to vote for us. And if you really love your oceans clean, after you vote please spread the word to your friends on email, on Facebook, tweet it to the world, tell people on forums, stop strangers at the dock or street.... every vote counts. And the seas are connected so a vote for any clean ocean, river or bay, is a vote for your clean ocean, river or bay.

Voting link: http://www.refresheverything.com/rozaliaproject

Or text 101390 to PEPSI (which is 73774)

Check us out on www.rozaliaproject.org or join the conversation on our Facebook page (rozalia project) but most importantly, please help us take action against the garbage patches that are growing in all of our planet's oceans by voting every day of August.

Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean is a non-profit organization run by Rachael Z. Miller and James Lyne, both kiters (snow and water) who live (when not cleaning the ocean) in Vermont. Our mothership is American Promise, Dodge Morgan's famed circumnavigator, past sail training vessel for the US Naval Academy and now an ocean trash hunter. In addition to nets we use a combination of ROV and sonar to search the sea floor for trash and debris. We are dedicated to clean oceans everywhere but are operating on the Northeast coast of the US.

You can read more about us on http://www.rozaliaproject.org or on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Rozalia-Project-for-a-Clean-Ocean/2845...

Thank you kiters. Have fun out there.

Think breeze,

rzm
Stormboarding/Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean