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Norwegian Boat Found in Vatnsflói - Snæfellsnes
On May 23, 2025 MatthÃas Alfreðsson found boat #5222 at Vatnsflói - Snæfellsnes, Iceland. This was the 23rd boat of the 500 that were...
arcticfloatboat
May 25
Vacationers Find Boat in Grettislaug, Hvammur, Iceland
Boat #230429, that originally was decorated in Seattle, Washington was found in Iceland on May 18, 2025 by Sarah Deglau from Hamburg, Germany.
arcticfloatboat
May 20
Young Girl Finds Boat in Faroe Islands
Families from the village of Hvannasund went on a boat trip to ViðvÃk beach and 8 year old ArnfrÃða found boat #5444 as she was playing on the large rocks at the bottom of the beach.
arcticfloatboat
May 18
German Family Finds Seattle Boat in Rifstangi, Iceland
A small wooden boat decorated by University of Washington's Aquatics and Fisheries Sciences department during a 2023 open house community event was found and reported in Rifstangi, which is at the northernmost point of Iceland. It was deployed at the North Pole alongside its parent buoy by the Le Commandant Charcot on August 17, 2023 and drifted on the Track Taken North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre through Fram Strait south to Iceland.Â
arcticfloatboat
May 8
Deploying Eckstein Boats in Utqiagvik, Alaska
Jessica Levine, Eckstein Middle School teacher deployed her students' wooden boats on the Arctic sea ice off the north slope of Alaska in April 2025.
arcticfloatboat
Apr 30
Found Boat After Surfing Near Sandvik Beach, Iceland
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. Sif left it behind and Andrzej found it again.
arcticfloatboat
Apr 29
Some Exciting Recoveries!
6th Graders in CHESPAX environmental education program experience Arctic through PolarTREC educator Tom Harten and Float Your Boat
arcticfloatboat
Apr 22
City Garden Montessori Students Set Sail on a Journey of Polar Literacy
St. Louis elementary students designed and decorated wooden boats, embedding their knowledge of the Arctic and Antarctic into both the visual storytelling and scientific purpose of the project.
arcticfloatboat
Apr 15
Boulder Boat Found in Akranes á Mýrum Iceland
Guðmundur Örn Sverrisson discovered a small wooden boat in Akranes á Mýrum, Iceland on March 16, 2025. Akranes is a port town and municipality on the west coast of Iceland, around 50 km north of the capital ReykjavÃk. The area where Akranes is located was settled in the 9th century; however, it did not receive a municipal charter until 1942. This boat, # 232396 was originally decorated in Boulder, Colorado at Centennial Middle School with teacher Bill Schmoker during the 2022
arcticfloatboat
Mar 20
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