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Unmanned Sailboat Traverses the North Atlantic

posted by martyb on Friday September 14 2018, @06:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the scale-it-up! dept.

MrPlow writes in with a submission (via IRC) for SoyCow1984:

Sailboats have been traversing the Atlantic Ocean since before 1592[*], sailing through sunshine, wind, and rain. The one thing that they've all had in common has been a captain to pilot the ship across this vast watery expanse, at least until now. A company called Offshore Sensing has sailed an unmanned vessel all the way from Canada to Ireland.

The ship, called the Sailbuoy, attempted the journey last year as well but only made it about halfway before the mission was abandoned. This year, however, the voyage was finally completed, and this craft is officially the first unmanned ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The journey took about 80 days using sails and a small set of solar panels to drive the control electronics.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2018/09/07/unmanned-sailboat-traverses-the-north-atlantic/

[*] I suspect they intended to refer to 1492 — Christopher Columbus' first trip to the "New World". Technically, though, the statement was before 1592 which is correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct. =) --Ed

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday September 14 2018, @08:57AM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 14 2018, @08:57AM (#734747) Journal

    Seems large enough for about 10-20 kg of high value smuggling stuff.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 14 2018, @10:56AM (4 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday September 14 2018, @10:56AM (#734769)

    Makes me think of a message in a bottle, but with higher odds.

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    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday September 14 2018, @12:31PM (1 child)

      by MostCynical (2589) on Friday September 14 2018, @12:31PM (#734801) Journal

      where the bottle knows at which beach to stop

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      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 14 2018, @01:36PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday September 14 2018, @01:36PM (#734808)

        I don't think they're this good, yet. This is the first one to make it across at all, several before it failed.

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    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday September 14 2018, @04:46PM (1 child)

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday September 14 2018, @04:46PM (#734895)

      Yep. I'm pretty sure that Japan demonstrated the ability to send vast amounts of unmanned ships and other random floating stuff across the Pacific a few years back. Lots of them made it to the West Coast as predicted.
      Best one I read about was a motorcycle in a container.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday September 14 2018, @10:42PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 14 2018, @10:42PM (#735118) Journal

        see also [wikipedia.org]

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