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Eckstein Middle School teachers Jessica Levine and Sara Hoofnagle will be connecting 350 of their students to the Arctic Ocean by participating in the 2022 Float Your Boat program. Thank you for participating in the 2021 Float your Boat as well as the upcoming 2022 field program. You can see some of their students boat art work at this Youtube video.
On August 6, 2021 Healy deployed boats and an Iridium tracker at 76.505450° -140.116667°. Photos of the boats deployed can be seen in this Google Photos Gallery.
On September 7, 2021 the cruise ship icebreaker Commandant Charcot deployed boats and an Iridium tracker at the North Pole. Photos of the boats can be seen in this Google Photo Gallery.
On October 1, 2021 the Russian Icebreaker R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov deployed boats and an Iridium tracker at 78.586103°N 173.015728°W. Thanks to Jon Pazol and the Polar Trec program for taking the lead on the ice deployment. You can read his journal online at this link. Photos of the boats can be seen in this Google Photo Gallery.
You can track the boats as they drift with the Arctic Ice at this website.
A total of just over six hundred boats have been distributed to Teachers at three Seattle Public Schools as well as the National Nordic Museum. These boats will sail North on the USCGC Healy in July 2021 and will be set on an ice floe North of Alaska by mid August. The boats can be tracked at this website once they are on the Arctic sea ice.
Thanks to Dunn Lumber for donating the cedar 2×4’s for the boats and the Center for Wooden Boats for cutting, branding and numbering the boats.