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When a fourth grade class from Charleston, South Carolina, launched a boat into the Atlantic Ocean in May 2015 as part of a school project, they only expected it to sail down the coast and eventually wind up in Florida.
Instead, it wound up in Bermuda, and then rerouted further east across the Atlantic Ocean to the western coast of Wales, where a family discovered it on a trip to the beach earlier this month.
Altogether, the little boat's trip was 4,000 miles, the Post and Courier newspaper reported.
Once the class from St. Andrews School of Math and Science confirmed the boat’s final destination, students reached out to Welsh harbor workers to find out if their boat had been detected, according to the BBC.
It turns out the boat had been recovered by mom Helen Hinks and her 3-year-old son William at Borth Beach.
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Hinks told the BBC that she normally took her son to the beach while they waited for her two other children to get out of school.
“We were looking across the waves when it literally sailed right to us,” she said. “It was magical.”
Hinks said she did not realize where the boat came from until reading about it in the news a week later.
Her family contacted Saint Andrews on Feb. 10, and found they were “really excited" to hear of their little boat's big adventure.
“My children’s school is hoping to relaunch it back to America,” Hinks said.
BuzzFeed News has reached out to Saint Andrews for more details, but according to ITV News, the South Carolina class plans to send over the necessary tools for the Welsh class to repair the boat and send it back home.
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