Brave Puffin


Brave Puffin is a small autonomous, solar powered, long range boat. It is 1.9 meters long, weighing 35 kg. Brave Puffin is designed to compete in the annual Microtransat Challenge in the non sailing, fully autonomous class - that is, to cross the Atlantic Ocean by itself.

Track Puffin’s “Gulf of Maine 2025 Tour” test mission

Brave Puffin 2024

Puffin 2024 is a younger, bigger brother of Puffin 2020, which was launched in July of 2020 and went MIA 2 months later.

Latest Post

  Portable thruster efficiency tester and first results

  🎉 Brave Puffin is back! (2024)

  2020 attempt: Brave Puffin is MIA