
Middle schoolers launched a boat from New Hampshire in 2020. It was found in Norway 462 days later
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A miniboat built by Rye Junior High School fifth graders took to the seas on October 25, 2020. Its voyage would take 5.5-foot-long Rye Riptides over 8,000 miles from home -- all the way to the coast of Norway after 462 days at sea.
It began at Rye Junior High School, located about 50 miles east of Concord, through a not-for-profit program to spread ocean and environmental literacy called Educational Passage.

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