Rifle Colorado Library Boat Found in Iceland

While out on a dog walk on the beach north of Hjalteyri, Iceland, Lene Zachariassen found Float Your Boat #223041 on July 14, 2024. This boat was deployed at the North Pole by Le Commandant Charcot on August 17, 2023

The boat originated in Rifle, Colorado at the public library in May 2022. Sarah R. Johnson of Wild Rose Education and coordinator of the Float Your Boat program, offered Arctic Science community programs at each of the libraries in the Roaring Fork Valley including the Garfield County Libraries. Included in the program was the opportunity to decorate a small wooden boat for Float Your Boat. She also invited each library staff team to also decorate a boat.

Garfield County Library staff, Alex Garcia-Bernal coordinated the community programs and worked closely with Amy Tonozzi, the Rifle Library director for this particular evening event.

Float Your Boat 223041 decorated by Rifle Library staff awaiting to be shipped to the North Pole for deployment

Beach north of Hjalteyri, Iceland, photo by Lene Zachariassen

Boat Number	223041
Date Found	July 14, 2023
Place Found	Hjalteyri, Eyjafjörður, Iceland 65.85086092,-18.19339174
Found By	Lene Zachariassen
Date Deployed	July 17, 2023
Who Deployed	​Le Commandant Charcot
Deployment Location	North Pole
Track Taken	​North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre
Decorated by	Rifle Library staff, Rifle, Colorado USA

Float Your Boats decorated in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valleys on Arctic Ocean map. Rifle boat is located farthest in the photo at the top of the photo

Boats from Library staff in center of map. Rifle Library staff boat on Greenland (bottom right quadrant)

Rifle Library staff boat on very bottom of left stack; marked with colorful flowers