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Yes, we take work placements! 🛠️

Ed (Marine Science, University of Exeter) and Marc (traditional boatbuilding, Les Ateliers de l’Enfer) each spent a week on our 41ft wooden catamaran build. Marc has since come back for more.

Placements run from 1 week to 1 month, supervised by Angie or Remy with guidance from Pascal, who has 50 years of boatbuilding experience. We’re insured, so we can sign off your placement. Both hulls are now in assembly, so it’s a great time to join.

👉 Visit floatingstorieslab.org (link in bio) and email us to find out how to apply.

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Oui, nous accueillons des stagiaires ! 🛠️

Ed (sciences marines, Université d’Exeter) et Marc (charpenterie de marine traditionnelle, Ateliers de l’Enfer) ont chacun passé une semaine sur le chantier de notre catamaran en bois de 41 pieds. Marc est même revenu depuis.

Stages d’une semaine à un mois, encadrés par Angie ou Remy, avec les conseils de Pascal, charpentier de marine depuis 50 ans. Nous sommes assurés et pouvons signer votre convention de stage. Les deux coques sont en cours d’assemblage : c’est le bon moment pour nous rejoindre !

👉 Rendez-vous sur floatingstorieslab.org (lien en bio) et écrivez-nous pour savoir comment candidater.

#WorkPlacement #Stage #BoatBuilding #ConstructionNavale #Bretagne

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Something’s in the post. ✉️

We’re starting something a little old-fashioned: SLOW Footprints ‘Snapshot’, a printed newsletter from the Floating Stories Lab, sent by post.

Inside the envelope: an A4 doubled sided letter from the Breton coast, citizen science and boat build news, a riso-printed postcard stamped by an artist, and a small sheet of custom-made stickers.

It’s our thank-you to members who support us at the €50 and €150 tiers.

The first issue goes out this autumn.

Want one in your letterbox? Become a member through the link in bio.

Already a member on one of those tiers? Check your inbox: we need your postal address.

#OceanStorytelling #Risograph #SnailMail #Bretagne #CapSizun

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Hi, I’m Angie, co-founder of the Floating Stories Lab, a non-profit association hand-building a 41ft Polynesian-inspired catamaran for ocean-centric research, storytelling, and citizen science.

My husband @remsrd and I co-founded FSL and are passionate about bringing community together throughout the build process. We welcome volunteers, host residencies, and created a membership program - once the boat launches, we’ll embark on a circumnavigation inviting our members as well as folks like researchers and creatives to join legs of the voyage along the way.

FSL leads a UN Ocean Decade Citizen Science Initiative ‘Regenerative Tides:Sailing for Solutions (ReTISS) engaging communities in data collection mapping end of life boats and analyzing their impacts on aquatic ecosystems.

We document everything as an open-source knowledge exchange - YouTube, Substack, our website - and as an academic researcher, I have some research coming out about regenerative creative practice centered around the project.

FSL is a fun, inclusive space to learn about working with your hands, materials, each other, and the living systems we’re all apart of.

If you’re passing by Finistere in Brittany, come pop in.

If you’re curious about how to contribute to citizen science from your own coastal community, check out all the resources on our website or get in touch.

www.floatingstorieslab.org
@floatingstorieslab
@fslcitizenscience

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🇫🇷 Audierne, Brittany. 18-19 July.

Les Rendez-vous de la Mer. I will be there next week contributing with @fslcitizenscience. Ocean art, citizen science, biodiversity kayaking up the Goyen River, and a gathering of Wharram catamarans including the 63ft Spirit of Gaia. Free tours on board.

@wharramcatamarans

@RedSeal.Sailing 🦊 stays in her berth this time.

See you on the quay. 🌊

More info in the link in the comments.

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Guess the question 💩

I asked people from two nature-loving communities the same question. This is what they have to say 🤸🏾

#NatureWellbeing #DeepListening

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⛵️RÉSINE, FIBRE DE VERRE… LES CIMETIÈRES A BATEAUX POLLUENT⛵️

L’épave a des allures de carcasse où seules la colonne vertébrale et quelques côtes subsistent. Le goémon qui la recouvre indique qu’à marée haute, le squelette est entièrement noyé. Partout autour, sur un lit de vase aux allures de sable mouvant, des dizaines d’autres embarcations plus ou moins en voie de décomposition gisent elles aussi, l’air apparemment inertes. Mais en laissant traîner un peu l’œil sur ce cimetière de bateaux, situé dans l’estuaire du Goyen, entre les communes d’Audierne et de Plouhinec (Finistère), un autre décor apparaît : le site est pollué.

« Tout ceci, ce n’est pas du patrimoine. Ce sont des déchets et de la pollution », déplore Angie Richard. Avec son association Floating Stories Lab (@floatingstorieslab @fslcitizenscience), la réalisatrice de documentaires veut alerter sur la pollution des cimetières à bateaux. Perçus comme un patrimoine à valoriser pour le tourisme, ces cimetières ont pourtant un fort coût environnemental. Au fil du temps, des résidus se détachent des coques, polluant l’eau et les animaux.

Un papier à lire sur @reporterre_media 🚤

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Groundbreaking research from University of Brighton is helping drive global action on hidden marine pollution 🌊

Research from marine biologist Dr Corina Ciocan, who teaches on Ecology and Conservation and Environmental Sciences at Brighton, is uncovering how microscopic fibreglass pollution is entering marine ecosystems through shellfish 🔬

Now, that research is inspiring international action through a new UN-endorsed citizen science project led by Angie Richard and @floatingstorieslab 🌍

Bringing together scientists, students and coastal communities across the UK, France and Portugal, the project is turning research into real-world action for ocean health 🌍

Read the full story – link is in the bio! 🔗

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Join the Community!
Become a member from 20€ per year and enjoy priority access to residencies, workshops and join legs of the global circumnavigation.

www.floatingstorieslab.org/support

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What sounds connect us to the ocean?

Some people hear waves in the distance.
Others hear seabirds, pebbles rolling on a shore, or the quiet beneath the surface.

Listening is one of the ways we begin to understand a place.

So now I’m curious…

What sounds connect you to the sea?

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FSL Citizen Science Creative Residencies bring artists together in Brittany, France, to immerse in the local coastal ecosystem and partake in our ReTISS initiative researching marine pollution from end-of-life boats while inspiring the development of artistic responses.

2025 participant @nathan_myers produced this video from our October residency 💙🌊

Watch the full video on YouTube and check out future open calls on floatingstorieslab.org

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Discover immersive art x science residencies with Floating Stories Lab as we explore ocean-centric themes and dive deeper in to our citizen science initiative mapping end-of-life boats in Brittany, France 🇫🇷

Become a member of FSL to be the first in the know for future experiences.

Undergraduate and postgraduate placements are also available. Get in touch to learn more.

🎥 @nathan_myers

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What mapping Bad Boats for our ReTISS citizen science initiative looks like from the field.

What do you guys think, romantic ghost ships or straight up marine pollution?

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