Fundraising & Recruitment taught the same question a maritime lawyer asks about a flag registry; does the paperwork match the practice? A charity’s annual report and a ship’s MLC compliance certificate are the same genre of document, both can be entirely valid and entirely insufficient at the same time. That gap, not the sea itself, is what this project is actually about. the sea is where the gap is easiest to see and AbeySea is about bringing these aspects, through stories, alongside and aboard.