How to win £4,000 in cash prizes

Yachting Month-to-month’s marine environmental journalism award is being launched with the help of Coppercoat, with money prizes price £3,000 and £1,000-worth of latest digital camera tools up for grabs. The Brian Black Memorial Award was established in 2021 to commemorate Brian and Lesley Black, who have been trailblazing sailors, daring small-boat explorers and passionate storytellers.

This 12 months ‘Our Altering Seas’ is the principle theme of the entries. Judges will probably be on the lookout for photographs and tales that reply the questions: How have you ever witnessed the altering marine atmosphere and climate patterns via your crusing and alongside the coast? What was driving this transformation? and How will we reply to it?

In the principle article competitors, we’re on the lookout for a narrative about crusing that you’ve got finished and that reveals one thing about our altering seas. It must be pleasing to learn, with partaking photographs that assist inform the story. You’ll be able to help your entry with video, although this isn’t important.

Ideas on what’s driving the adjustments you describe and the way we reply will be your personal or researched concepts and may embrace native or nationwide initiatives if related.

For instance, you may need seen one thing that you just have been shocked to see as a result of it shouldn’t have been the place it was, or there was one thing lacking that you’d count on to see.

Coppercoat, specialists in bio antifouling options, is sponsoring the award for the second 12 months and, for the primary time, and Canon is providing two digital camera kits for one of the best grownup and junior photographers.

For the written submission, there’s a prize of £2,000 for one of the best 1,800-word article and accompanying photographs.

There may be additionally a images competitors open to adults and juniors aged 14 years and beneath. Submissions consist of 1 photograph on the theme of ‘Our Altering Seas’ and as much as 300 phrases to provide the story of what the photograph reveals and the way it was taken, in addition to a brief biography and a head shot of the writer. The winner within the grownup class will win £1,000 and a Canon digital camera package. The junior images competitors (run in affiliation with The Week Junior) has the identical submission standards with a prize of a Canon digital camera starter package.

The profitable article and images, together with the runners-up, will probably be revealed in Yachting Month-to-month, and on Yachting Month-to-month’s on-line channels. Winners will probably be introduced on the Southampton Boat Present on Friday 19 September 2025.

The award additionally features a donation of £1,000 to the marine conservation charity, Sea-Changers, which raises funds for grassroots conservation tasks across the UK shoreline.

Marine atmosphere guide Sarah Brown, who launched the BBMA in honour of her dad and mom, stated: ‘Marine conservation is a ardour for me. I’m excited to listen to what conjures up different folks to get entangled. I’m fascinated to see what this 12 months’s submissions have to show me.’

Ewan Clark, director of Coppercoat, stated: ‘The workforce at Coppercoat is delighted to help the Brian Black Memorial Award. The idea of utilizing crusing boats to discover the pure world, and to take action with minimal influence on the atmosphere, is completely aligned with our values.’

Coppercoat antifouling has virtually no biocide leach and lasts for 10-15 years between purposes.

‘At Coppercoat, we stay satisfied that our product remains to be main the market relating to low-impact antifoul, and impartial exams have proven that Coppercoat’s influence on the marine atmosphere is nearly fully negligible in comparison with any eroding antifoul,’ added director Jayson Kenny.

Earlier BBMA winners embrace: Jon Amtrup, who witnessed the retreat of glaciers in Svalbard throughout his voyages over 12 consecutive years; Tim Linsell, who evoked his expedition from Norway to Svalbard fantastically however was dismayed by the speed of change within the Arctic; and Sophie Dingwall, who crossed the Atlantic and witnessed distant islands buried beneath ocean plastic.

The judging panel contains Chair of the World Crusing Belief Dee Caffari MBE; Vendée Globe veteran Mike Golding OBE; conservation skilled Dr Bob Brown, Sarah Brown, plus the Yachting Month-to-month workforce.Entries ought to submitted by electronic mail to yachtingmonthly@futurenet.com by 1 September 2025. 

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