Found Boat After Surfing Near Sandvik Beach, Iceland

Photo submitted by Sif Hjaltdal Pálsdóttir

Andrzej Wroz was on the Sandvik Beach on the Southern Peninsula in Iceland after a surf session on April 25 and noticed a small wooden boat. This was boat 234202 that was originally decorated by students of teacher Adam Smith at Hood River Middle School in Hood River, Oregon USA during the 2022-2023 school year. The boat was discovered and reported a week earlier on the same Sandvik Beach by Sif Hjaltdal Pálsdóttir on April 18, 2025. Sif left it behind and Andrzej found it again on April 25, 2025.

The small boat was deployed by a team of scientists onboard the Polarstern icebreaker in September 2023 from the North Pole on the Transpolar Current, and then south to Iceland (view current map). 

Boat Number	234202
Date Found	April 18th and then again on April 25, 2025
Place Found	Sandvik Beach, Southern Peninsula -Iceland
Found By	Andrzej Wroz
Date Deployed	September 13, 2023
Who Deployed	Polarstern
Deployment Location	North Pole! 89.83/-2.9
Track Taken	North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre through Fram Strait
Decorated by	A student at Hood River Middle School, Hood River, Oregon USA

Photo submitted by Sif Hjaltdal Pálsdóttir