They send a tiny sailing boat to chase hurricanes. We wanted to know what that takes.

The company's micro-vessel sails itself across the ocean on wind and sun, into weather that sends everything else back to port. It has to survive the storm it is hunting, with nobody aboard to fix anything.

Power, monitoring equipment and sensors all compete for the same hull, the same deck and the same weight budget. Sensors have to sit where they read properly. Weight has to sit where the boat still sails.

The boat has one hull for everything, so we treated the electrical systems and the mechanical layout as one problem. Power and monitoring were redesigned alongside the internal packaging, the sail and deck integration, sensor positions and weight distribution, so every change was checked against the others.

A reworked power and monitoring system, revised internal packaging, sail and deck integration, and new sensor positions and weight distribution.

Every system on board now shares one hull, one deck and one weight budget, placed so the sensors read properly and the boat still sails.