How You Can Help

Equipment and materials:

  • Sailboats (purchased, gotten at auction, donated, borrowed, or built).
  • Bike carts (folding and nonfolding).
  • Bicycles (folding and nonfolding).
  • Electric bicycles.
  • Electric outboard marine engines.
  • Diesel outboard engines.
  • Skiffs, kayaks, lifeboats.
  • Wind-power generator for sailboat.
  • Solar panels for sailboat (foldable on awnings as well as panels).
  • Sails, rigging.
  • Navigation instruments.
  • Tools for repair and maintenance tasks.
  • Charts and books.
  • Foul weather gear.
  • Safety equipment.
  • Fire wood for onboard wood stoves.
  • Veggie oil for diesel engines.
  • Diesel engines.
  • Alcohol fuel for cookstoves.
  • Seeds for planting more food.
  • Farming implements.
  • Fishing poles, tackle, nets.
  • Water filters and steel water-containers or tanks.
  • Water quality testing devices including measurement of plastic debris.

Work or contributions of time:

  • Crew on sailboats.
  • Biking crew, cart pedalers.
  • Photographers, video/filmmakers.
  • Journalists embedded.
  • Coordinating connections between farmer or processor, neighborhood garden, and customer.
  • Certification development (using terms "Sail Transported" and "Sail & Pedal Power Transported" and "Pedal Power Transported" perhaps with logo, on goods' packaging for customers and on shippers' or farms' websites or catalogs, and even restaurant menus).
  • Publicizing activities for recruitment and awareness-outreach.
  • Event organizing (benefit concerts, dinners of non-trucked produce and drink).
  • Advisory roles (technical-engineering, food, climate change, sustainability, legal, etc.).
  • Fundraiser or Development Director.
  • Activism director (campaigns, anti-plastics action or reseach on river or ocean, etc.).
  • Marine work (woodworking, fiberglass mending, hauling out vessel, painting, rewiring, plumbing, diving service, mechanic, sailmaker).
  • Long-voyages research (setting up deliveries from tropical ports to U.S. coasts, for example).
  • Online match-making for sailors, passengers, captains, CSA subscribers, farmers.
  • Barter coordinator (e.g.: food in exchange for a keg of beer, or delivery-service done in exchange for some favor or object).
  • Farmers, depavers, vendors (for our own Farmers Markets stalls if necessary)
  • Community and Regional support (Portland E.A.T.S., Food Not Bombs or other services).

Cost items having monthly payments:

  • Rent for slips. (alternative: anchoring)
  • Insurance costs. (Boats that don't go into marinas do not have to be inspected or insured. Boats that have no engines don't even have to be registered, in some countries.)
  • Utilities. (can be minimized as to shore power and buying propane, for example, by using home-made rocket stoves, fueled with twigs and driftwood.)