Boats decorated by visitors to Vilvite, in Bergen, Norway, continue to be found on the beaches of the North Atlantic. In 2022 Float Your Boat collaborated with Vilvite which is a science museum in Bergen, Norway. Vilvite cut and branded hundreds of wooden boats and had them decorated in various learning programs. These boats found in early 2024 were deployed by Le Commandant Charcot at the North Pole in summer 2022. Since May of 2023, there have been have been more than a dozen boats found from that deployment.
Boat 5358
This boat was decorated by visitor at at Vilvite science museum in Norway. The finder Guðjón was walking on the sandy beach in Klaufinn on New Year's Day. January 1, 2024 with his grandson Maximus Snær Jónsson.
Date Found | 01/01/2024 |
Place Found | Klaufinn Vestmannaeyjar Iceland |
Found By | Guðjón Egilsson |
Date Deployed | July/August 2022 |
Who Deployed | Le Commandant Charcot |
Deployment Location | North Pole |
Track Taken | North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre |
Boat 5376
This boat was decorated by a Vilvite visitor. It was found on the Sólheimafjara beach on the south central side of Iceland by Ragnar.
Date Found | 03/02/2024 |
Place Found | Sólheimafjara Beach, Vestur Skaftafellssýsla, Iceland 63.459209, -19.407941 |
Found By | Ragnar Óli Snorrason |
Date Deployed | July/August 2022 |
Who Deployed | Le Commandant Charcot |
Deployment Location | North Pole |
Track Taken | North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre |
Boat 5320
This boat also decorated by a visitor at Vilvite, was found in the Shetland Islands of the United Kingdom by Ann Marie.
Date Found | 03/23/2024 |
Place Found | Whalsay, Shetland, United Kingdom 60.3755210, -0.9690643 |
Found By | Ann Marie Anderson |
Date Deployed | July/August 2022 |
Who Deployed | Le Commandant Charcot |
Deployment Location | North Pole |
Track Taken | North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre |