Yaquina Neversink

The Oregon Coast STEM Hub started working with the Lincoln County School District in the summer of 2024. The crew working on the project described their miniboat name’s meaning as follows: “Our team built the boat at Hatfield Marine Science Center, which is situated along Yaquina Bay on the central Oregon Coast. Yaquina Bay is named for this area’s first inhabitants, the Yaquina, Yacona, or Yaqo’n Indians, so the first name of the boat represents our bay and honors the Native Americans whose land we now live on. We chose ‘Neversink; because we are confident that our boat will long be seaworthy.”

September 14, 2024 Update

September 17, 2024 Update

September 21, 2024

Yaquina Neversink was set to sea on September 21, 2024. We received the following note from the crew of the R/V Shimada that launched her: “It’s been a beautiful, sun-filled day with low swell so a great day to start its journey!! The vessel it was deployed from was the R/V Shimada. We’ll send a folder of photos/videos when we get them pulled together later.”

Stay tuned…

Data from the Sensor Pack:

The location reports from the main GPS will show on the map at the top of this page here (which updates hourly with new positions if available). Here below is where you can see the data reporting from the second GPS which is connected to a custom sensor package. In addition to reporting location with a secondary GPS tracker, this system is also collecting air temperature, water temperature, and orientation of the boat. Please note that the map below will only the last 7 days of data and may include invalid points and data. If you are interested in looking at the data in a different format from the whole voyage, contact us.

There is also a camera on deck. We have taken only test pictures so far: