Junovia is a Pearson 422 cutter-rigged sloop crewed by Nat and Kendra Powning. She is currently plying waters in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Junovia is equipped with a Class B+ AIS transponder which regularly broadcasts information over VHF radio to other nearby vessels and land-based receiving stations. The transmitted data includes her identification, position, heading, course, and speed. Click here for a good write-up about the Automatic Identification System if you would like to learn how it works at a high level.
Two systems that make AIS data available over the internet are MarineTraffic and VesselFinder. Below are embedded maps from each of these sites showing Junovia's location the last time one of their stations received up her signal. They each have different coverage in different areas so you'll often see a more recent position on one than the other. Here are live maps from each site:
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