The Floating Stories Lab

The Floating Stories Lab (FSL), a non-profit association (Association Loi 1901), is a community of volunteers creating a research and storytelling vessel, a 41ft Polynesian-inspired wooden catamaran that will become a collaborative base for research, storytelling, and community engagement. Fundamentally multidisciplinary, the Floating Stories Lab is dedicated to making ocean knowledge more accessible, building bridges between communities, researchers, creatives, and policymakers, and inspiring regenerative solutions to the ecological and social challenges of our time.

Through our citizen science initiative ReTISS (Regenerative Tides: Sailing for Solutions), we work with volunteers, schools, researchers and local authorities to map abandoned and end-of-life boats and study the pollution they release into aquatic ecosystems. ReTISS began as an EU Horizon Europe-funded pilot (IMPETUS) and is a UN Ocean Decade Action under the Global Estuaries Monitoring Programme. Our partners include the University of Brighton, Cranfield University, CNRS / Université de Bretagne Occidentale and the Cap Sizun – Pointe du Raz Community of Municipalities. Explore our live Bad Boats map.