Saildrone

Here is an interesting reading about the subject

The Drone That Will Sail Itself Around the World

The Bird View of The Boat

Here is a video of the first boat test from Eric's "bird". 

SeaCharger

Apparently, the pool of crazy ideas is not infinite. Right now a solar powered autonomous boat SeaCharger is approaching Hawaii islands after making a 2000 miles passage from California. Great job guys! Good luck!

Three Boats and One "Bird"

This Saturday we tried the boat on Big Bear lake. In the test we used two kayaks, one small boat, and a quad-copter.  The boat did not do very good - it was way out of balance (huge weather helm) and steering without any feedback and any indication of the rudder position was too hard to keep the boat on course. But overall it was fun, entertaining, and useful. There are no problems we could not fix. The next series of tests will be focused on balancing the boat.

Vlad launching the boat for the first time

Eric controlling his "bird"

Beating