The 20-foot-tall craft is scheduled to set sail from Victoria later this month. After being recovered by a research vessel from the University of New Hampshire, UBC Sailbot members took it apart to study what went wrong, and why. © CBC Raye is set to sail from Victoria to Hawaii, a distance of more than 2,500 km. "She demonstrated incredible innovation and persistence," the UBC Sailbot website says about Montague, who died in 2018. In the craft's six years of planning to building, more than 200 UBC students were involved, the team said.

Source: CBC News August 22, 2022 03:43 UTC