'Magical': Norway 6th-grader finds Rye students' mini boat launched in 2020

[demmiblue]

RYE — After a group of Rye Junior High School students built a roughly six-foot-long miniature boat and filled it with gifts in late 2020, they set it out in the Atlantic Ocean, hoping it would eventually wash ashore and be opened by someone across the globe.

While some students wished for it to drift to Europe, then-sixth grader Solstice Reed wasn’t as convinced the voyage would be successful. “Honestly, I thought it would sink,” she admitted.

Fortunately, to her and her peers’ pleasant surprise, Reed’s initial skepticism turned out to be unfounded.

The Rye Riptides boat, equipped with a tracking device, spent 462 days at sea and registered its coordinates at different points throughout its journey. And this month, at long last, a curious sixth-grader in Smøla, a small island near Dyrnes, Norway, found the semi-dismantled boat, later bringing it to his school and opening it with his own delighted classmates.

https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/education/2022/02/14/rye-nh-miniboat-found-smola-norway-rye-riptides-educational-passages/6726124001/

[CrispyQ]

1. What a wonderful story! -nt

[crickets]

2. Look at all the barnacles!

So neat - it's wonderful that it was found. What a great learning experience for the students at both ends of the journey.

[patphil]

3. Perhaps the beginning of a long friendship between children in those two schools.

[greenjar_01]

4. Remembrances of Holy Days in Tarrytown and Rye

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