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PODCAST | Sutton Hoo, Ghost Boats & Ocean Care
In this episode of Fire Pit Talks, Angie Richard sits down with anthropologist, experience designer and storyteller Lisa M. Rose, MPA for a conversation that travels from the Great Lakes to Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon longship reconstruction to the Isle of Wight and today’s global crisis of abandoned “ghost boats” and marine pollution.
From Pilot to Platform: ReTISS Concludes the IMPETUS Accelerator
We are proud to share that the EU Horizon-funded IMPETUS Accelerator phase of ReTISS has officially concluded, and the results have exceeded every expectation.
Video | Boat Build Series: Episode 5
In this episode, Simone and Remy show us the process of scarfing and then rounding the edges of the Movingui timber sheer stringers for our 41ft wooden catamaran.
End-of-Life Boats, Living Waters: What Europe’s Circular Economy Debate Is Still Missing
As Europe debates circular solutions for end-of-life boats, emerging science shows that fiberglass pollution is already entering marine food webs.
Floating Stories Lab at the Royal Yacht Squadron Sustainability Symposium
On 17 January 2026, we will be heading to the Isle of Wight to take part in the Royal Yacht Squadron’s 3rd Sustainability Symposium.
Video: Art x Science From the Field
The Floating Stories Lab Citizen Science Creative Residencies brings artists together in Brittany, France.
New entries to our Bad Boats Map in North Finistère, Bretagne, France.
Citizen scientists add new entries to our Bad Boats Map in an estuary in North Finistère, Bretagne, France.
Cutting Movingui Legacy Hardwood Planks
Our latest video in the Boat Build series shares the experience of cutting our Movingui legacy hardwood planks, which was no easy feat!
Mapping End-of-Life Boats, November Update
Citizen scientists in Brittany (France) and the Isle of Wight (UK) have mapped almost 100 boats as part of our ReTISS citizen science initiative. Here are some important data points thus far.
Between Wind and Will, Interview with Maya of Sailing Magic Carpet
In the most recent episode of Fire Pit Talks, we meet Maya — musician, filmmaker, sailor, and boat builder, perhaps known to some of you as one half of the phenomenal YouTube channel Sailing Magic Carpet.
🔴 LIVE: Citizen Science Webinar with Dr. Corina Ciocan & Angie Richard
Join Dr. Corina Ciocan and Angie Richard for a live conversation on the Regenerative Tides initiative — where citizen science, art, and policy meet to tackle fiberglass boat pollution.
Microplastic and Fiberglass Pollution Research in Gill Samples of Oysters and Mussels in the Goyen River-Estuary, Brittany, France
Our citizen science work with students from Collège du Bois de Locquéran along the Goyen River-Estuary in Brittany, France, continues, with further evidence documented of fiberglass and microplastics ingestion by locally gathered oyster and mussels.
Video: Lofting the Boat & Materials Testing
Join us lofting our Wharram Narai Mk IV Wooden Catamaran plans on to drawing plywood, then testing European Maritime Pine and the Australian produced Change Climate 100% Bio Epoxy Resin with surprising results!
Citizen Science on the Mudflats
Our second citizen science visit at the local middle school turned out shocking discoveries in native populations of European Oyster and mussel gill analysis.
Collège du Bois de Locquéran (Bretagne) x FSL Science Citoyenne
Initialement Publié sur le Site Web du Collège du Bois de Locquéran
Dans le cadre du projet que mène le groupe de 4e Euro, une enseignante de l’Université de Brigthon est intervenue vendredi 26 septembre au collège.
En ce début d’année, le groupe mène un projet de Sciences participatives en lien avec l’Université de Brigthon. Angie Richard, à la fois mère d’un élève du collège, et, fondatrice de « The Floating Stories Lab », est à l’initiative du projet.
Young Breton Citizen Scientists of the Goyen
Dr. Corina Ciocan joined Angie to visit Collège du Bois de Locquéran in Brittany. Over the next year, the middle school students will contribute to important research, mapping end-of-life boats in their local village, collecting and analyzing bivalve samples for fiberglass pollution, and creating a short video to communicate their school’s participation in the project.
Meet the ReTISS Citizen Science Creative Residency Artists
A selection of international artists will gather in Brittany, France, for a Citizen Science Creative Residency exploring the deep connections between people and the ocean. Meet the eight participants.
Phthalates, Fiberglass Boats, and Our Beating Hearts: From Mussels to Mortality
From mussels to humans, phthalates in fiberglass boats link marine pollution to heart disease and occupational health.
Drawing the Lines
Milestone moment with our boat build, drawing the lines of our Wharram wooden catamaran.
The Flooring is Built
We opted for a minimalist, inexpensive flooring with the objective of having a level, clean and dry base atop which to spend the next two years building FSL’s 41ft Polynesian-inspired Wharram Designs wooden catamaran.