I've often eyed the Saildrone craft (which they are using) when heading out to the Alameda ferry dock area. Pretty cool looking devices.

https://www.saildrone.com/

Same here. It's cool to see them being towed out of the bay to go who knows where.

Congrats to Saildrone! I am surprised that the article did not discuss the dramatic force structure re-evaluation that needs to be going in light of the Ukrainian non-navy dominating the Black Sea, instead of the framing of Russian incursions in the Baltic Saildrone type assets seem well poised to be a part of that small, distributed, networked type of sea control.

In 2016 the autonomous Solar Voyager tried to cross the Atlantic. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/solar-voyager-hmc...

There might be a space for remote boating with very small toy boats that are incredibly durable.

Especially now that Starlink supposedly can be used on boats.

That's f*king pretty cool was my first, and lasting, reaction.