Miniboat Program News Today

Featuring our new shipwreck exhibit: a journey into the ”Graveyard of the Pacific”.

At just 5-feet long, the Miniboat Inspiration is a humble vessel. But the uncrewed boat, launched 100 miles off the coast of Rhode Island last Saturday under sunny skies and over rolling swells, has begun a journey that may span the Atlantic. ...

Visiting Japan is likely a distant dream in most of our minds, but for one miniboat, designed and built by a class of Columbia City 5th graders, hitting Japan’s coast is in its near future. An educational program out of the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, simply dubbed the “Miniboat Program,” is working with students at Columbia City Elementary to send a miniboat across the Pacific to a sister school in Japan, and students in Japan will also be sending a boat to Oregon...