In 2024, Hospice Cup earned its first ever platinum clean regatta certification from Oceana’s Sailors for the Sea. The prestigious certification from sustainable boating’s recognized governing body capped a year of dramatic progress: zero-waste efforts, a volunteer-powered Green Team, locally sourced food and composting strategies, and the elimination of single-use plastics across both land and sea elements of the event.

Building on its recent success, Hospice Cup introduced several new initiatives in 2025 to deepen its impact including enhanced crew communication and new education and programming for competitors. Together alongside registered clean regattas in more than 50 countries, we are working hard to do our part to eliminate single-use plastic and protect our waterways from waste that’s harmful to our wildlife and shorelines.

We have more to do and we’re looking forward to keeping up our momentum. Take a look through this year’s 2025 Hospice Cup Sustainability Report to see how we did.