An incident report described the boat as a metal frame with enclosed buoys, manually powered by running.
Mr Baluchi told CNN that he set out from St. Augustine on Friday and planned to make his way out to the Gulf Stream, which would help propel him up the East Coast to New York.
He said he was making the trek because he wanted to raise money for first responder charities.
Mr Baluchi decided he had to turn back because he was having problems with his tracking system and his backup device was missing.
He ended up on the Palm Coast beach about 35 kilometres south of where he started, saying he could get new equipment in that location.
Adventurer s plan to walk on water to New York in a floating bubble ends on a Florida beach
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