09-22-2015, 12:21 PM
VIDEO: Students seek help in recovering self-steering sailboat
It’s the kind of science project any nautically minded middle-school student would love: Launch an unmanned “drifter” vessel, then track its progress as it crosses the Atlantic, gathering data. In June 2012, students at John Winthrop Middle School in Deep River, Conn., launched a 5-foot, 45-pound, self-righting, self-steering and self-tending sailboat and research vessel to...more
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It’s the kind of science project any nautically minded middle-school student would love: Launch an unmanned “drifter” vessel, then track its progress as it crosses the Atlantic, gathering data. In June 2012, students at John Winthrop Middle School in Deep River, Conn., launched a 5-foot, 45-pound, self-righting, self-steering and self-tending sailboat and research vessel to...more
http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/2015/09/vi...-sailboat/