{"id":9492,"date":"2016-10-04T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2016-10-04T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:05:42","slug":"tiny-unmanned-sailboat-makes-it-across-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/tiny-unmanned-sailboat-makes-it-across-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Unmanned Sailboat Makes It Across The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny sailboat built by a high school senior from Waterford, CT has successfully traveled thousands of miles from the coast of\u00a0Cape Cod across the Atlantic to Ireland.<br \/>\nWaterford High School student Kaitlyn Dow built the boat last spring as a project for her marine science class filled with memorabilia from her school and the state of Connecticut. Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution released the sailboat into the waters above the North American continental shelf in May, The Day\u00a0reports.<br \/>\nFour months later, it washed up in Ireland. It was discovered by 8-year-old M\u00e9abh N\u00ed Ghionn\u00e1in, a resident of Droim, Leitir M\u00f3ir, Connemara, Co. Galway.<br \/>\nThe boat was still intact and had only a few scratches on the school logo of the Waterford Lancers painted on its side and about an inch of water in its hull. It had landed on a beach close to M\u00e9abh&#8217;s house.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the middle of the day we went walking by the sea, and then we saw this white thing,\u201d said M\u00e9abh. \u201cWe went down to it and it was the boat.\u201d<br \/>\nAll summer long, Dow and her science teacher, Michael O\u2019Connor, had tracked the boat&#8217;s GPS coordinates. As they watched the boat approach the west coast of Ireland, they started trying to contact anyone\u00a0and everyone they could think of who might pick it up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/culture\/travel\/tiny-unmanned-sailboat-makes-it-across-the-atlantic-from-cape-cod-to-ireland\">(Read more.)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny sailboat built by a high school senior from Waterford, CT has successfully traveled thousands of miles from the coast of\u00a0Cape Cod across the Atlantic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,614,9,11,609],"tags":[582,44,738,739,737,740],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns-blogs","category-cruising-news","category-current","category-current-issue","category-electronics","category-featured-news","tag-atlantic","tag-bluewater-sailing","tag-cape-cod","tag-ireland","tag-unmanned-sailboat","tag-waterford-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}