VIDEO: Students seek help in recovering self-steering sailboat

Published September 21, 2015 | By

By Richard Armstrong It’s the kind of science project any nautically minded middle-school student would love: Launch an unmanned “drifter” vessel, then track its progress as it crosses the Atlantic, gathering data. In June 2012, students at John Winthrop Middle School in Deep River, Conn., launched a 5-foot, 45-pound, self-righting, self-steering and self-tending …read more