Float Your Boat

08/16/2026

Love this museum! They cut most of our blanks boats.

The center provides free or inexpensive water access to thousands annually and is one of the few institutions nationwide that teaches wooden boatbuilding.

10/17/2025

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10/13/2025

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

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! →

10/13/2025

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

09/30/2025

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

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....

07/31/2025

Celebrating! and inviting educators to apply to participate!

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...

07/30/2025

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

07/28/2025

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

07/26/2025

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

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.

07/24/2025

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