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# Navigation performance of the SailBuoy

In this document, the navigation performance and characteristics are reported from a trial conducted in summer 2011 when the SailBuoy travelled a 1000-km-predefined course between Bergen (Norway) and Scotland in one month, from the 22nd of June to the 22nd of July 2011.

Click the link below to read the full article on how the SailBuoy is paving the way for future ocean observation.

 

[https://sailbuoy.azurewebsites.net/files/CMR-12-A10266-RA-1-rev-00-Navigation%20performance%20of%20the%20SailBuoy.pdf](https://sailbuoy.azurewebsites.net/files/CMR-12-A10266-RA-1-rev-00-Navigation%20performance%20of%20the%20SailBuoy.pdf)

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