Boat Details - Mike Kidd 2015
- Team Name: Mike Kidd
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Boat Name: Adventure
- Intended Route: West to East
- Class: Sailing
- Division: Autonomous
- Length: 1.37 m
- Weight: 23 kg
- Beam: 0.3 m
- Draft: 0.53 m
- Hull type: Wooden keel, styrofoam body, fiberglass shell.
- Rig Design: Cat rig with a single unstayed aluminum mast.
- Power source: 6x 3 watt peak solar panels (18 watt total), arranged in three redundant pairs
- Sail type: 0.42 sq m sail made from 3 oz white dacron
- Actuators: Firgelli Automations linear actuator for mainsail control. Small electric motor with worm gear for wind vane angle control.
- Sensors: MTK3339 GPS, LSM303 compass, camera.
- Communications: Rockblock Iridium Satellite Modem
- Computers: Arduino Mega
- Other Interesting Information: The boat steers via a computer-adjusted wind vane. Electronics are powered off 99% of the time, waking up only once every one to six hours. The camera will transmit back low resolution images over the Iridium modem and store them to an SD card.