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Thank you Hiaoos.eu for collaborating with buoy and wooden boat deployments!

300 Little Boats, One Big Arctic Journey: Tracking Student Art Across the Ice Could a little wooden boat decorated by a fifth grader end up in the Mediterranean? 🛥️ Maybe! Float Your Boat deployed 300 student-decorated boats onto the Arctic sea ice. Track their scientific drift alongside research buoys and explore ocean currents. A cool way to bring science to life! →

Here's the story to accompany this awesome photo! https://www.floatboat.org/post/300-little-boats-one-big-arctic-journey

We are thrilled to have a collaboration with the Swedish Oden icebreaker team Polarforskningssekretariatet!

Swedish Icebreaker Oden Deploys Boats The Icebreaker Oden reached the North Pole on August 16, 2025, as a part of the Canada-Sweden Arctic Ocean 2025 expedition. After mooring the boat to the ice, they deployed 450 boats from from 13 institutions and an Ice Ball buoy. The boats were decorated by kids from several US schools, as well as....

Celebrating! and inviting educators to apply to participate!

Celebrating Impacts Through Stories and Data: 2024-2025 Discover how the Float Your Boat program connected over 4,000 learners to the Arctic Ocean this past year! Our annual report highlights the exciting hands-on science, climate change awareness, and real-world impact achieved through our wooden boats, igniting STEM interest across the globe. And, it's...

https://www.floatboat.org/post/found-while-bicycling-hei%C3%B0arh%C3%B6fn-langanes-iceland

Boat Found While Bicycling in Heiðarhöfn, Langanes, Iceland Boat #230756, that originally was decorated in Seattle, Washington was found in Iceland on July 3, 2025 by Karina Strømmen while out biking near her family farm.

https://www.floatboat.org/post/boat-reported-from-r%C3%B8rvik-norway

Boat Reported from Rørvik, Norway Edgar Sørø-Lona reported a found boat near Rørvik Norway while out on a boat. While the specific coordinates were not sent in, this area is in central Norway on the coast.

https://www.floatboat.org/post/boat-reported-from-s%C3%ADlal%C3%A6kur

Boat Reported from Sílalækur in Northern Iceland Gudrun Emilsdottir reported boat 230580 from the beach in northern Iceland on June 20, 2025. The boat was decorated by Le Commandant Charcot cruise ship passengers and was deployed by August 2, 2023 at the North Pole.

https://www.floatboat.org/post/boat-reported-langanes-iceland

Boat Reported from Langanes, Iceland Michael Birkner reported a found boat in north east Iceland in the Langanes area. This boat, # 232220 was originally decorated in December 2023 by a participant in Polar Science Day at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington USA. It was then deployed via the Le Commandant Charcot on August...

Fun news for VilVite from Iceland!

Hiking Group Finds Boat in Breiðavík in East Fjords 24th boat of the 500 that were sent to the North Pole from VilVite, Bergen Science Centre found and reported!

Great story from a group of families

Young Girl Finds Boat in Faroe Islands On May 16, 2025 five families from the village of Hvannasund went on a boat trip to Viðvík beach. They spent all day at the beach, playing in the sand, the river and in the sea and had a great time. 8 year old Arnfríða found boat #5444 as she was playing on the large rocks at the bottom of the b...

Fun update: this boat was taken to the Baltic by its finder, released and then last week found in Rostock Stadthafen Germany - read the updated blog.

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 Co...