La traversata atlantica di una barca giocattolo

Un’altra traversata atlantica inusuale, stavolta da ovest verso est, dall’America all’Europa, e senza equipaggio a bordo. Ad aver compiuto l’ardua impresa รจ Carolina Dreamer, una barchetta giocattolo di 5′, costruita in vetroresina dagli studenti di una scuola elementare di Charleston, in Sud Carolina, Stati Uniti. La classe stava studiando gli oceani, e il progetto proposto dall’insegnante รจ stato quello di mettere in mare una piccola barca con una vela, per vedere dove andava a finire. A bordo solo una scatola con i pensieri dei ragazzi e un GPS, per poter seguire la rotta di Carolina Dreamer.

Messa in mare in Carolina del Sud nel maggio 2015, l’imbarcazione รจ approdata a Bermuda dopo meno di una settimana di navigazione. Da lรฌ ha ripreso il largo ed ha continuato a navigare nell’Atlantico del nord per nove mesi, sempre seguita dalla classe “armatrice”, finchรจ il GPS ha smesso di funzionare qualche settimana fa. Era probabile che l’Atlantico distruggesse la piccola barca, e la sorpresa di vederla in foto, approdata sulle coste del Galles deve essere stata tanta. A trovarla รจ stata una madre che passeggiava con i propri figli in spiaggia: guardando il mare uno di loro ha visto la barchetta arrivare solitaria dall’oceano, portata a riva dalle onde, in un momento che la famiglia descrive come “magico”.

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Da quando il segnale GPS era stato perso, i ragazzi statunitensi stavano contattando tutti i porti e le guardie costiere dell’altro lato dell’Atlantico, il tam tam ha funzionato e cosรฌ i pezzi della strana storia sono stati messi insieme. Carolina Dreamer รจ stata strapazzata un bel po’ dall’oceano: ha perso la sua vela e appare un po’ mal messa, ma ha percorso comunque le quasi quattro mila miglia che separano la Carolina del Sud dal Galles. Il piano adesso รจ quello di rimetterla in sesto e farle fare il percorso inverso, da est verso ovest.

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