Welcome to the online home of Project Plastic Soup and the David Rose Offshore Solo Sailing Campaign.

I have finally decided that the David Rose Offshore campaign along with Project Plastic Soup has developed enough to warrant a voice of it’s own.

A bit of background, My name is David Rose, I’m based in Auckland, New Zealand and am currently in training and campaign and funding preparation to compete on the IMOCA Open 60 Solo sailing circuit. The heart of the campaign is a comprehensive awareness and education program around the global issue of plastics in our oceans, Project Plastic Soup.

The key sailing objectives of the campaign are to compete first in the longest race for an individual in any sport in the world, the Velux 5 Oceans, sailing around the world solo from La Rochelle, France to Cape Town South Africa, to Wellington, New Zealand, then on to Salvador – Brazil, Charleston – USA then back to La Rochelle. Then secondly become the first Kiwi on the start line and complete the hardest race in the world, the Vendee Globe, sailing no stop without assistance around the world solo from Les Sables d’Olonne – France back to Les Sables d’Olonne.

Our campaigns single organising idea is “An Inspiring Wake”

By this we mean wherever we go, what ever we do as a team we always strive to leave something behind. This is based on the very comprehensive education programme we have developed on the major environmental issue of “Plastic Soup” all the plastics in the marine environment and what it is doing to the ecology, the life chain and us as human beings, what we can do to clean it up and prevent it getting worse in the future. As a secondary value, being a successful businessman and family man aged 42, through the enormous challenges and journey I am and will be going through to compete in these events and educate on Plastic Soup I personally want to motivate and inspire people to achieve their personal goals no matter what they are.

Thank you in advance for reading this, I look forward to keeping you updated with the goings on.

Best regards,
David