in the last video, the RC boat has a solar panel on it. does the boat operate on solar power ? because if not, and that panel is there without giving power to the motors, then you are a LIAR !
It should be noted too that the points that other people (perhaps rather rudely) brought up about the boat shape were actually validated by your experiences on this trip. Ok, not the offroading experience. That was an unexpected adventure. The bit at the end with all the wind. You have a tall boat with a low wetted surface ratio and no keel at all. When you calculate the stability on this kind of design you get a result known as "Negative GM" in the boat design world. This means that it will always be very unstable and very susceptible to wind effects, as you saw. You had to essentially massively overpower it and utterly abandon the idea of efficiency in order to defeat the wind. Even then you simply could not get the little boat to point upwind. It just kept "falling off" the upwind course, turning back and then falling off in the other direction, zigging and zagging it's way to shore. This was entirely due to the design of the boat. I know you and others have made the comparison to cargo ships. But you are forgetting that scale and proportion matters. Your boat is smaller, but the water isn't less dense to allow your boat to sit lower. So it pops up like a cork on the surface showing massive amounts of freeboard to the wind, even with insane amounts of ballast. Also, the proportions of your boat are nothing like those of a large cargo ship. They are much more like those of a world war 2 "Liberty Ship" or a tramp steamer or fishing vessel. But none of those have flat bottoms. All are traditional compound curved displacement hulls with at a minimum a vestigial keel to help maintain course and hold ballast. This is what the other people were trying, in a very rude way, to tell you. While this is a design that you can "make" work, it isn't a design that is inherently "good" and it needs significant assistance to get to the level of function you want. At minimum, a heavy metal keel bolted securely to the bottom (Literally just a strip of 1/8" x 1.5" mild steel bar) will dramatically improve the straight line performance of your boat. However it won't solve the overall "cork" design problem you have going on. That will take a total redesign of the boat hull. On the off chance you haven't seen this one, here's a short course on ship hull geometry from the Naval Engineering Education Center: th-cam.com/video/Iml-lynj3bM/w-d-xo.html It's pretty basic, so I hope you don't take offense to my offering it. But it's a good starting point. They have extensive (and increasingly complex) videos on offer on their channel. Obviously it is oriented towards large naval ship design, so some of what they discuss won't apply, but the overall principles will. Lastly, don't let criticism get you down, and don't take it personally. While I can't speak for anyone else, I love the crazy stuff you are willing to do, and my criticism is offered purely in the spirit of being constructive. I want to do what little I can to help you make better and cooler stuff. I can't wait to see what you come up with next! EDIT: As requested by the community, Daniel's Sponsor: Visit SimpliSafe.com/rctestflight to learn more and to get at least 30% off your SimpliSafe security system!
That gate you reached was for a VOR station. They are used throughout the globe for areal navigation. It stands for Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Radio Range. It shoots out radial beams that indicate which bearing you are travelling through compared to it. If you know which bearing you are passing through, and your distance to the station (displayed on instruments) you can find you position in relation to it.
I couldn't go to sleep until I finished this video. Congratulations for finishing the long trip. As a R/C boat lover I would like to share some tips. One of the best greases for filling the shaft tubing is Molykote 33. It has a very light base oil that doesn't cause much drag when motor is spinning. Being a silicone grease it's extremely water resistant. You can also redesign the propeller shaft tubing by attaching a stuffing box at one end of it and inside the boat. The tubing doesn't need to be filled with grease in this case, but the stuffing box needs to be filled with a mixture of grease and cotton/some other fiber. Then you add a lid to it, the lid can move along the shaft. The you install a l spring or clip that pushes the lid towards the stuffing when loaded, the lid will in turn squash the stuff and keep it tight around the shaft. This sealing can stay water tight for the whole day letting in absolutely no water. EDIT: Forgot to mention the dust part. What an adventure through such a horrible "road". I guess that fine dust is from those broken rocks ground by the water of the lake/river millions of years ago. I may not dare to even go there. Looking forward to more your adventures.
Can we all appreciate the huge effort, pain, naked Daniel and adventure into this episode? What a day! Hands down the best yet, you out-do yourself man! Best channel in TH-cam. Also, kudos for the great songs xD We surely can expect a Bannana liquid fuel rocket in orbit in one or two years
This has been a tough journey for you on this build. I'm glad you stuck with this build/test trial until the end, and you didn't call it quits.. Getting stuck and all of the shenanigans made the clip more interesting to watch...sometimes, the worst trials make for a better story in the end.
I watched this video a year ago despite having no ambition to build a boat or using Ardupilot. Now I do and I rewatched it and am again totally fascinated about what adventure this mission turned out to be. It has everything, beautiful scenery shots, the suspense of getting life signs, off-road car drama, awesome drone footage. I will recommend this video to everyone even remotely interested in RC anything.
Bro this was like a Lord of the Rings level quest... got stuck in Mordor, went through the Shire, even had a Golem appearance at 19:53 😂 totally legendary!
For those that are curious: what you got stuck in is known as bulldust in australia, or silt here in North America. Key is lots of floatation. Wide tires, low pressure, decent wheel speed, if you start sinking stop.
It's incredible to me that it just works. Not just the robotics, but the software, it doesn't crash, it always accepts a connection, it doesn't leak memory; and the radio, it doesn't go wrong, and you can reconnect whenever. What an incredible adventure that was.
Your journey has been very inspirational. I've recently dug out my (very) old RC car and sailboat and Arduino and who knows where this will go. Your cross country trip reminded me of the pain of my helium balloon recovery mission north of Ellensburg five years ago. Excellent work!
Is it just me or was the 4x4 adventure more interesting than the autonomous mission ??? Awesome video, enjoyed every second of it... More 4x4 adventures!!! PS: You should always have a shovel, rope and basic tools in your pick up. I recommend you change the engine air filter, it must be full of dust.
@@LydellAaron Also air down the tires to 18lbs/sq inch to lengthen the footprint in soft sandy silt.... You will need to carry a small 12 volt air pump to air up the tires after the soft stuff....
@@JohnSmith-yv6eq thanks John Smith for the low pressure tire advice. For inflation, I'm proud of my 12V ViaAir pump good flow and 100% duty cycle. Rides with me all the time. 💪
@@LydellAaron Thanks for the prompt reply (or any reply) We call people who don't air down tires in sand members of the 40psi club. See BOGGED ACTION on YT for some club member action......
24:56 ... "I am just a nerd" ... most of what I do falls into that category too :-) but your projects are much more demanding in every aspect - great job, congratulations!
Me and my dog ( pictured) watched the whole thing. I gree up making boats out of old sea foam and old fishing line. So this brought back some fond memories of boats and seaside adventures.
Relocated from Seattle back to Eastern Wa town I had grown up in to raise my children. It's roughly 40 miles from the location you were high centered in, "Moon Dust" (is what we call it). It's unfortunate that no one was willing to give you advice on how to remove yourself from being high centered. It's learning curve, but theres not much else to do other than 4x4 out here, and an experienced driver could have removed your truck with ease. Next time you desire a boat adventure in Eastern Wa, theres a very large, unique lake near there named Omak Lake. It's alkali water and is genuinely one of the most beautiful locations you'll ever visit. This coming from someone that despises the desert. Even I can appreciate it's unique beauty. While visiting If you get stuck again the bois and I will point and laugh, then help. Lol
What an adventure, we call that dust "bull dust" in Australia, people will put a positive pressure fan in their campers to keep it out as they travel, it gets into everything
Or turn on your a/c to outside air and high speed fan...does the same thing to the cab......will pressurise the back if you have a window through to the camper...
I came in expecting an RC boat video, but this ended up being a drama filled survival movie and I loved it. Sorry for your hardships, but it made great content haha!
You should really get a new or clean your cars airfilter as it's going to be really dirty with all the dust and its not good for the engine. And maybe invest in some new tires and maybe even in a lift kit. Greetings from Sweden :)
@@stutterpunk9573 as an AI... I agree it would be nice... as a bird, I'm not sure how I feel about consoling a furry... but I'm proud of you for persisting through the hate... as a girl... I hope you're not the kind of furry that isn't safe for work...
What a great boat! Time for some movies like “Banana Slug Boat Goes To: The Pacific”. I envision a BIG OL speaker on it to pull up to boaters and be like “WHADDUP! IM BANANA SLUG! Just out here on mission!” 🐌
12:21 - Turkeys and deer often feed together. Turkeys have insanely good eyesight and color perception while the deer have great hearing and movement sight. Peacocks are just assholes. 13:49 - we call that sugar sand in the south.
@@trey1531 Cold also get a ham radio license and use 10w+ on the 900mhz telemetry with all that battery capacity. But RF engineering is a whole other beast
I couldn't resist saying this but I think your boat is beautiful in its own way. Lovely bright colors and lights that needed for obvious reasons of course. Such a wonderful achievement and you have every right to be proud of yourself for it. Some great filming too. Thankyou so much.
Just a bit of helpful advice from an avid off-roader. Before your next off highway adventure, pick up the stuff on this list and you should be good to go. 1) set of maxtraxx recover boards. 2) tire valve stem deflators. 3) high volume air compressor Airing down to about 15psi will help a bunch in that talcum powder type sand. Without the valve stem deflators,it takes forever to let the air out on all four tires. A company called Morrflate makes a kit that allows you to air UP all four tires at the same time. Great channel. Keep up the awesome videos.
The cool cliffs you were seeing are carved into layer after layer of volcanic rock; the whole area was covered with flood basalt, with the total thickness of all the flows getting up to 3 miles deep in some places, and 2+ miles deep for a lot of the area. It's also part of the reason why the floods from glacial lakes were able to carve so deeply into the rock, since it was relatively easy to pry away at loose fractures and such, and the reason why the nearby Snake River was able to carve the deepest river gorge on the continent (deeper even than the Grand Canyon).
This was up there with your lost Skyhunter in the mountains video from a few years back. Absolutely compulsive viewing. Thanks again for a brilliant adventure!
Loved it. And didn't even have clickbait. Could you imagine, "RC boat 30 mile mission GONE WRONG". This man is passionate about what he does and doesn't need clickbait to get there.
You need to rig a sail on it so that it can, autonomously of course, utilise the wind for additional propulsion, expandig it's useful range! It's the next logical step, surely?
It'd probably be significantly easier to make an autonomous sailing ship using a flettner rotor rather than a conventional sail but I'm not sure if it would work well at this scale. Also, to make a sailing vessel of any kind, he's going to need a much more stable hull design.
@@The_Seeker It would be really cool with a folding sail rig that only popped up under the right conditions. It might not be able to power the vessel alone, but add some energy, under the right conditions, without weighing too much.
Oh shit I literally just commented the same thing without realising that someone already had the idea! I’ll leave my comment up just so he has a greater chance of seeing!
Great adventure, that makes best memories! Nextime take the protein shake and wine sugar with you. Drink at least 2 doses protein thru the day and the wine sugar everytime you have taste for it. It helps a lot to keep your energy for long day like this. We using beef jerky as well, mostly if we cannt bring protein with us (because of limited weight).
I'm sorry, but you getting stuck and looking like you came out of the sahara desert was utterly hilarious, I continued giggling up to long after you showed the aftermath of the inside of the car 😂
so helicopters that fly in jungle environments have blades that help cut any vines that may get close to the blades. A lot of off roaders have cables that go from the roof to the front of the hood for the same reason. Perhaps you could try fitting something similar around the props of your various nautical projects to prevent any seaweed buildup.
Did you ever thought of extending your telemetry signal in the air (drone or something)? This would give you temporarily access to telemetry data. You could also equip a drone (not the mavic ;)) with a hook or something to lift the HHS Banana out of the water if there are any problems. I was following the project quite a while, definitely making progress, congrats!
rctestflight: "I'm making an autonomous boat out of Tupperware" Internet: "awesome!!" rctestflight: "I'm making the hull for this autonomous boat I'm building" Internet: "THAT'S NOT A REAL BOAT!!!" Thanks for this video, loved every second even though I felt your pain. Keep up the quality content.
"I've never been so happy to see an inanimate object. No, don't stop! I don't want to get wet." LOL. This has to be one of your most entertaining videos ever. Great job.
20:02 Filming Daniel: I'll get a shot of the mission planner and where the boat says it ended up. Editor Daniel: Well that didn't exactly work out in my favor.
I’ve been watching your channel when you were just starting to build your own quads. I knew then that there was much more to you than just a kid into RC’s. I expect to see great things come from you. Keep up the good work and I love your content! You have a lot of heart!
You going though all that crap with the truck then swimming naked to avoid a swamp, only to get a shot of your junk on the pc screen made this the best video of yours, the editing is pure comedy gold at that point. I'm sure it will all be worth it on the long run.
2:38 A few nights ago when I was heading somewhere, don't really remember (it was a family dinner or something), we could see the beacon of a airport over the treeline as well. It was pretty cool.
Exiting! Pinned to the screen all the way trough. You have the skills to make these videos interesting and exiting without dead points. Maybe Discovery Channel or Netflix will contact you:-)
WOW! YOU ARE A GENIUS! YOUR TALKING ABOUT ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY STUFF LIKE ITS NORMAL! I WISH I COULD LEARN HOW YOU DID ALL THIS! IT JUST LOOKS SUPER COMPLICATED. GREAT WORK MAN!
Loving the videos! How about an R/C automated Yacht, complete with wind sock, self adjusting sails and rudder. Hell, you could even put some cannons on one side. I believe you could make it pick its own mini way points so it can tack up wind to your destination.
Seeing as you have a good means of control authority....how about putting a sail on it as well so when it is windy you can go to sail power instead of prop power?
Hey man very cool !! I can't believe it made it !! I laughed at you when you got stuck in the dust from hell and when you had to go slinking through the mud to rescue it off the shoreline . I laughed and also related to your journey. I fly syma 50 to 100 dollar drones and I've spent actual days looking for these things when they go missing. I have spent 20,000 thousand dollar flying wrecking and loosing cheap drones since I've started flying the things. 20 years and alone of happy and unhappy happy trails from bush with Mosquitoes and ticks Black flies and other weird bugs . Been on roof tops of fancy hotels and all kinds of places to retrieve these things back. Met a lot of people that weren't willing to help, phoned the cops on me and got way to many stories to tell but I ain't gonna bore ya . Thats my relating to your experience and 20 years of flying in a nutshell . Cheers brother and remember to keep it shiney side up, keep your stick on the ice and don't do anything i would or you'll end up in jail !!
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You got my like anyway.
what's the range max?
in the last video, the RC boat has a solar panel on it. does the boat operate on solar power ? because if not, and that panel is there without giving power to the motors, then you are a LIAR !
WOULD B COOL IF U SPLIT THE SCREEN THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE VIDEO OF U AND THE BOAT
I dont know of you read comments but my going to be try something like the banana slag but i was wondering can you try one with bow thrusts
Came for the autonomous boat, stayed for the crazy offroad quicksand naked Daniel adventure
I mean, I initially thought he'd just taken his shirt off. Then the blurred-out shots turned up and I realised ah, he's actually naked.
I one day he spent $300, chased on a autonomous boat, got naked, skinny dipped, got stuck in quicksand, and rescued about.
@@Vousie But in later shots he got some swimming trunks, so why didnt he use them earlier?
Haha yeah slav sitting in front of the computer, nuts dangling in the wind, had me rolling
@@wChris_ Maybe he didn’t want to go back to truck
bro the things this dude does for his lil boat. Respect
Even went skinny dipping. Well he's gut the body...
@@cptfrecell I wasn't expecting to see a nekid guy...
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Bro wrote a love song about his little boat
What an adventure man! enjoyed every second of it
Great to see you here!
Thanks Ramy!
Ramyyy
@@rctestflight are you using VHF band wave to control at a long distance like that, at what frequency is your receiver and your transmitter set?
Me too
I never expected that I would see so much of the wilderness in a "nerdie" technical video! Man, you're dedicated!
Those are rare
That's what I come here for 😊
There are a lot of outdoorsy nerds in WA
You're going to be the first with an autonomous boat across the Atlantic, aren't you?
I'll be here to see it! Great job.
Haven’t that already been done?
@@alexlandherr Not that I know of.
It has been done. There is a contest every year called The Microtransat Challenge for autonomous boats to cross the Atlantic.
@@Travelinmatt1976 why am I watching this then? 🤣😂 thanks for the info
as a fellow pacific northwester id say too far for him to travel with a device like that
The adventure, the drama, the song, the Jeff, it's all so magnificent!
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As much as I enjoy the RC content of this channel. I deeply enjoy the adventures you are willing to go on to provide us content. Thank you!
This is really what makes this watchable.
Maybe I enjoy the adventure more then the boat itself, although they are both interesting.
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It should be noted too that the points that other people (perhaps rather rudely) brought up about the boat shape were actually validated by your experiences on this trip. Ok, not the offroading experience. That was an unexpected adventure. The bit at the end with all the wind.
You have a tall boat with a low wetted surface ratio and no keel at all. When you calculate the stability on this kind of design you get a result known as "Negative GM" in the boat design world. This means that it will always be very unstable and very susceptible to wind effects, as you saw. You had to essentially massively overpower it and utterly abandon the idea of efficiency in order to defeat the wind. Even then you simply could not get the little boat to point upwind. It just kept "falling off" the upwind course, turning back and then falling off in the other direction, zigging and zagging it's way to shore. This was entirely due to the design of the boat.
I know you and others have made the comparison to cargo ships. But you are forgetting that scale and proportion matters. Your boat is smaller, but the water isn't less dense to allow your boat to sit lower. So it pops up like a cork on the surface showing massive amounts of freeboard to the wind, even with insane amounts of ballast. Also, the proportions of your boat are nothing like those of a large cargo ship. They are much more like those of a world war 2 "Liberty Ship" or a tramp steamer or fishing vessel. But none of those have flat bottoms. All are traditional compound curved displacement hulls with at a minimum a vestigial keel to help maintain course and hold ballast.
This is what the other people were trying, in a very rude way, to tell you. While this is a design that you can "make" work, it isn't a design that is inherently "good" and it needs significant assistance to get to the level of function you want. At minimum, a heavy metal keel bolted securely to the bottom (Literally just a strip of 1/8" x 1.5" mild steel bar) will dramatically improve the straight line performance of your boat. However it won't solve the overall "cork" design problem you have going on. That will take a total redesign of the boat hull.
On the off chance you haven't seen this one, here's a short course on ship hull geometry from the Naval Engineering Education Center: th-cam.com/video/Iml-lynj3bM/w-d-xo.html
It's pretty basic, so I hope you don't take offense to my offering it. But it's a good starting point. They have extensive (and increasingly complex) videos on offer on their channel. Obviously it is oriented towards large naval ship design, so some of what they discuss won't apply, but the overall principles will.
Lastly, don't let criticism get you down, and don't take it personally. While I can't speak for anyone else, I love the crazy stuff you are willing to do, and my criticism is offered purely in the spirit of being constructive. I want to do what little I can to help you make better and cooler stuff.
I can't wait to see what you come up with next!
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You deserve more likes man
Way more likes.
Gracious and constructive feedback, love it. I for one enjoyed learning from his design and hope he makes a new version to test out!
This is the sweetest comment and it's very well written
The main thing I've learned from this comments section is that the world apparently has a lot of marine engineers in it.
That gate you reached was for a VOR station. They are used throughout the globe for areal navigation. It stands for Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Radio Range. It shoots out radial beams that indicate which bearing you are travelling through compared to it. If you know which bearing you are passing through, and your distance to the station (displayed on instruments) you can find you position in relation to it.
I couldn't go to sleep until I finished this video. Congratulations for finishing the long trip. As a R/C boat lover I would like to share some tips.
One of the best greases for filling the shaft tubing is Molykote 33. It has a very light base oil that doesn't cause much drag when motor is spinning. Being a silicone grease it's extremely water resistant.
You can also redesign the propeller shaft tubing by attaching a stuffing box at one end of it and inside the boat. The tubing doesn't need to be filled with grease in this case, but the stuffing box needs to be filled with a mixture of grease and cotton/some other fiber. Then you add a lid to it, the lid can move along the shaft. The you install a l spring or clip that pushes the lid towards the stuffing when loaded, the lid will in turn squash the stuff and keep it tight around the shaft. This sealing can stay water tight for the whole day letting in absolutely no water.
EDIT: Forgot to mention the dust part. What an adventure through such a horrible "road". I guess that fine dust is from those broken rocks ground by the water of the lake/river millions of years ago. I may not dare to even go there. Looking forward to more your adventures.
I love how much "I'm just a nerd" smooths over sceptical reactions!
the blurred out parts of this video give a whole new meaning to the boats namesake "banana slug"
The spam reply to this comment is very relevant lol
Yeah, of course, and thanks for the 18+ spam.
Can we all appreciate the huge effort, pain, naked Daniel and adventure into this episode? What a day! Hands down the best yet, you out-do yourself man! Best channel in TH-cam. Also, kudos for the great songs xD
We surely can expect a Bannana liquid fuel rocket in orbit in one or two years
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This has been a tough journey for you on this build. I'm glad you stuck with this build/test trial until the end, and you didn't call it quits.. Getting stuck and all of the shenanigans made the clip more interesting to watch...sometimes, the worst trials make for a better story in the end.
I watched this video a year ago despite having no ambition to build a boat or using Ardupilot. Now I do and I rewatched it and am again totally fascinated about what adventure this mission turned out to be. It has everything, beautiful scenery shots, the suspense of getting life signs, off-road car drama, awesome drone footage. I will recommend this video to everyone even remotely interested in RC anything.
Bro this was like a Lord of the Rings level quest... got stuck in Mordor, went through the Shire, even had a Golem appearance at 19:53 😂 totally legendary!
Woohoo!!!! It's finally here! The boat content that *literally* everyone wants. Gone are wheels, foresaken are wings... Go into the water.
his ground effect airplanes are awesone
Preach.
No the plane projects are what people want. Good video tho
Is that a Dethklok reference?!
I vote for a flying submarine next.
That was a brutal road you were traveling through. I've never seen a road like that. Very kind of them to help you out.
i mean $300 but yeah it was nice
I've been thru worse, and yes in the state of Washington. Some of the roads up to the mountains are purely imaginary.
That was amazing! I feel tired for you. After all of that, the truck being stuck was almost the failure mode, of all things. Time to beef it up.
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The fact that you even compose little songs to entertain us while watching the drone footage is just fantastic! Many thanks for that!
For those that are curious: what you got stuck in is known as bulldust in australia, or silt here in North America. Key is lots of floatation. Wide tires, low pressure, decent wheel speed, if you start sinking stop.
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Fascinating comment! There’s so much I Don’t know about 4-wheeling.
Ok, and thanks for the 18+ spam.
as someone who also does a bit of offroad and knows what it's like to get stuck in powder. this entire episode was a joy.
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Hope to see transatlantic mission in the future, that would be soo cool :D
lmao you need to bounce the signals off the ionosphere for that one.
@@cezarcatalin1406 or just wait a couple of months and see if it arrives
He's on the west coast. Trans Pacific, Seattle to Sydney!
Check out The Microtransat Challenge, there are autonomous boats on the Atlantic every year.
It's incredible to me that it just works. Not just the robotics, but the software, it doesn't crash, it always accepts a connection, it doesn't leak memory; and the radio, it doesn't go wrong, and you can reconnect whenever.
What an incredible adventure that was.
Your journey has been very inspirational. I've recently dug out my (very) old RC car and sailboat and Arduino and who knows where this will go. Your cross country trip reminded me of the pain of my helium balloon recovery mission north of Ellensburg five years ago. Excellent work!
Is it just me or was the 4x4 adventure more interesting than the autonomous mission ??? Awesome video, enjoyed every second of it... More 4x4 adventures!!! PS: You should always have a shovel, rope and basic tools in your pick up. I recommend you change the engine air filter, it must be full of dust.
Excellent point about the engine filter!
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Also air down the tires to 18lbs/sq inch to lengthen the footprint in soft sandy silt....
You will need to carry a small 12 volt air pump to air up the tires after the soft stuff....
@@JohnSmith-yv6eq thanks John Smith for the low pressure tire advice. For inflation, I'm proud of my 12V ViaAir pump good flow and 100% duty cycle. Rides with me all the time. 💪
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Thanks for the prompt reply (or any reply) We call people who don't air down tires in sand members of the 40psi club.
See BOGGED ACTION on YT for some club member action......
Genuinely appreciated the single minded dedication you have to your missions Daniel, that was a great video.
24:56 ... "I am just a nerd" ... most of what I do falls into that category too :-) but your projects are much more demanding in every aspect - great job, congratulations!
Me and my dog ( pictured) watched the whole thing.
I gree up making boats out of old sea foam and old fishing line. So this brought back some fond memories of boats and seaside adventures.
Relocated from Seattle back to Eastern Wa town I had grown up in to raise my children. It's roughly 40 miles from the location you were high centered in, "Moon Dust" (is what we call it). It's unfortunate that no one was willing to give you advice on how to remove yourself from being high centered. It's learning curve, but theres not much else to do other than 4x4 out here, and an experienced driver could have removed your truck with ease.
Next time you desire a boat adventure in Eastern Wa, theres a very large, unique lake near there named Omak Lake. It's alkali water and is genuinely one of the most beautiful locations you'll ever visit. This coming from someone that despises the desert. Even I can appreciate it's unique beauty. While visiting If you get stuck again the bois and I will point and laugh, then help. Lol
You sound like a nice guy
And that's really cool
What an adventure, we call that dust "bull dust" in Australia, people will put a positive pressure fan in their campers to keep it out as they travel, it gets into everything
Or turn on your a/c to outside air and high speed fan...does the same thing to the cab......will pressurise the back if you have a window through to the camper...
Ay driving to darwin we noticed dust filling up behind the speedometer 😯
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I came in expecting an RC boat video, but this ended up being a drama filled survival movie and I loved it. Sorry for your hardships, but it made great content haha!
I had visions of you having to call Matt's Off-Road Recovery during those off road excursions :)
So, we got a call
i just watched Matts last video right before this 1
@@joecroucher that's next in my queue :)
didn't expect to see a comment about Matt's channel :D
We'll get em out
Your persistence is inspiring, i feel like if i was as stuck and as dirty that would’ve been the end of the mission🤨
At first step I was thinking I won't watch 27 mins of a boat but that was so enjoyable and I watch it until the end
Nice mission, keep up
Im loving these autonomous long range missions, and the way you combine RC stuff, adventure, and great locations. Well done, Keep it coming.
You should really get a new or clean your cars airfilter as it's going to be really dirty with all the dust and its not good for the engine. And maybe invest in some new tires and maybe even in a lift kit. Greetings from Sweden :)
"maybe they'll stop judging and let you live" - that would be nice in general lol
That what everyone wants really.
Yep, i'm tried of being judge after i say my dream is to become serial killer.
I have always liked the banana slug...
as a furry.... yes that would be very nice
@@stutterpunk9573 as an AI... I agree it would be nice...
as a bird, I'm not sure how I feel about consoling a furry... but I'm proud of you for persisting through the hate...
as a girl... I hope you're not the kind of furry that isn't safe for work...
It is fun to see someone not fall apart when shit goes wrong. No antics. Just need solutions. Very level headed.
What a great boat! Time for some movies like “Banana Slug Boat Goes To: The Pacific”. I envision a BIG OL speaker on it to pull up to boaters and be like “WHADDUP! IM BANANA SLUG! Just out here on mission!” 🐌
can’t imagine seeing a naked guy squatting in front of his laptop in the dunes 😂😂😂
We’ve reached peak technological progress.
... with a boat camera and a handheld on himself... xD
"Oh sorry man my autonomous boat washed up on shore while i was getting my truck unstuck" No one would believe him if it werent on video.
12:21 - Turkeys and deer often feed together. Turkeys have insanely good eyesight and color perception while the deer have great hearing and movement sight.
Peacocks are just assholes.
13:49 - we call that sugar sand in the south.
SUGAR SAND
yuck, no wonder dust balls used to be a problem.
In Australia, it's called "bull dust".
Sometimes it swallows a Toyota - entirely. He will definitely need a new air filter after that, fer shur!
I'm surprised you haven't tried to put a telemetry signal repeater on the mavic and get it halfway out to extend your range, haha.
could get a Ham radio license and use APRS on a 5 watt radio
@@trey1531 Cold also get a ham radio license and use 10w+ on the 900mhz telemetry with all that battery capacity. But RF engineering is a whole other beast
i like your brain
@@LegendLength I like your brain too
@@richhandler2621 Are you sure you dont have some zombie in you?
I couldn't resist saying this but I think your boat is beautiful in its own way. Lovely bright colors and lights that needed for obvious reasons of course. Such a wonderful achievement and you have every right to be proud of yourself for it. Some great filming too. Thankyou so much.
Just a bit of helpful advice from an avid off-roader. Before your next off highway adventure, pick up the stuff on this list and you should be good to go.
1) set of maxtraxx recover boards.
2) tire valve stem deflators.
3) high volume air compressor
Airing down to about 15psi will help a bunch in that talcum powder type sand. Without the valve stem deflators,it takes forever to let the air out on all four tires. A company called Morrflate makes a kit that allows you to air UP all four tires at the same time. Great channel. Keep up the awesome videos.
A winch is always a good addition also.
The cool cliffs you were seeing are carved into layer after layer of volcanic rock; the whole area was covered with flood basalt, with the total thickness of all the flows getting up to 3 miles deep in some places, and 2+ miles deep for a lot of the area.
It's also part of the reason why the floods from glacial lakes were able to carve so deeply into the rock, since it was relatively easy to pry away at loose fractures and such, and the reason why the nearby Snake River was able to carve the deepest river gorge on the continent (deeper even than the Grand Canyon).
Wow what an adventure!
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This was up there with your lost Skyhunter in the mountains video from a few years back. Absolutely compulsive viewing. Thanks again for a brilliant adventure!
Loved it. And didn't even have clickbait. Could you imagine, "RC boat 30 mile mission GONE WRONG". This man is passionate about what he does and doesn't need clickbait to get there.
New air filter for your truck! Good thing it's a Tacoma, those are solid trucks. And super cool adventure!
"What college is this for?" Uhm, no college, i'm just a nerd 😂 Amazing video once again, kudos you have amazing dedication and its lovely to watch
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You need to rig a sail on it so that it can, autonomously of course, utilise the wind for additional propulsion, expandig it's useful range! It's the next logical step, surely?
It'd probably be significantly easier to make an autonomous sailing ship using a flettner rotor rather than a conventional sail but I'm not sure if it would work well at this scale. Also, to make a sailing vessel of any kind, he's going to need a much more stable hull design.
Next logical step is a submarine.
@@The_Seeker It would be really cool with a folding sail rig that only popped up under the right conditions. It might not be able to power the vessel alone, but add some energy, under the right conditions, without weighing too much.
I am all for the sailboat conversion! Hoist the jib!
@@The_Seeker he could base it off of a Chris White mast foil catamaran design
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You’re spoiling us with these uploads! Also: I love this boat 😜
I don't remember ever using emojis lol. I'lm so confused.
This was better than a movie, excitement, drama, food and a happy ending. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Make sure you change your truck's air filters (engine and cabin) after that journey!! Awesome video
I really want a sound file of Daniel saying "flipping into auto mode" to put on my transmitter 😎
How about a telemetry data repeater placed in a plane or quad to get some altitude?
a repeater in an autonomes plane that is flying along with the boat would be awesome
@@crazyphil3000 or atleast one he can use on the pitstops, a plane won't have the endurance of the boat
Unless it's a solar plane maybe : )
Oh shit I literally just commented the same thing without realising that someone already had the idea! I’ll leave my comment up just so he has a greater chance of seeing!
I was thinking the same thing
What you do with RC and autonomy is amazing. One day you'll make it across the Pacific/Atlantic. This is your most high adventure mission. Cool 👍👍
Autonomous mission to Alaska. Go go go!
@@EFCasual Autonomously follow a cruise ship that rctest is onboard for the week. Seattle to Alaska and back.
Be sure to plot a course that avoids off-shore kelp beds! They're prop-fouling hell!
Great adventure, that makes best memories! Nextime take the protein shake and wine sugar with you. Drink at least 2 doses protein thru the day and the wine sugar everytime you have taste for it. It helps a lot to keep your energy for long day like this. We using beef jerky as well, mostly if we cannt bring protein with us (because of limited weight).
Great work mate ----scale up the Boat size as you progress with AUTONOMOUS missions
Maybe you could try different propellor designs that won't catch weeds in them. Or maybe try making water jets?
That would work, but would it suck up the weeds. And it’s probably not as efficient as propellers.
Impeller maybe great
Or motor with 10 wide but short oars attached each
@@andrewcuzzolino8277 then make metal ones with sharp edges, maybe they would get chopped up
or also have people send Daniel propeller designs like "fan showdown" (Major Hardware)
@@MrGuliton true, but it could rap around the rod connecting it to the boat like weeds sometimes do with a weed eater.
That was an awesome adventure. Nail-biting finish. Long live the HMS Banana Slug!
I'm sorry, but you getting stuck and looking like you came out of the sahara desert was utterly hilarious, I continued giggling up to long after you showed the aftermath of the inside of the car 😂
so helicopters that fly in jungle environments have blades that help cut any vines that may get close to the blades. A lot of off roaders have cables that go from the roof to the front of the hood for the same reason. Perhaps you could try fitting something similar around the props of your various nautical projects to prevent any seaweed buildup.
This was an epic to rival Jason and the Argonauts :D
Well done for sticking with it!
Awesome video, had everything! Tears, laughter, roller-coaster of emotions and a happy ending! Congrats on finishing the mission!
Did you ever thought of extending your telemetry signal in the air (drone or something)?
This would give you temporarily access to telemetry data.
You could also equip a drone (not the mavic ;)) with a hook or something to lift the HHS Banana out of the water if there are any problems.
I was following the project quite a while, definitely making progress, congrats!
Triangulation. Not a bad idea. A repeater of some sort. Have the boat connect to something on the drone and repeat the signal to the computer
Came here to ask that too. Have a plane go out on runs closer to the boat to get telemetry. Having it lauder above for various portion of the mission!
I thought the same thing, do a jump from transmitter to receiver to receiver, I don’t know about the hook though, he said it was like 40 lbs
rctestflight: "I'm making an autonomous boat out of Tupperware"
Internet: "awesome!!"
rctestflight: "I'm making the hull for this autonomous boat I'm building"
Internet: "THAT'S NOT A REAL BOAT!!!"
Thanks for this video, loved every second even though I felt your pain. Keep up the quality content.
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"I've never been so happy to see an inanimate object. No, don't stop! I don't want to get wet." LOL. This has to be one of your most entertaining videos ever. Great job.
Our one boat has a built in builge pump. Windshield sprayer motor. We had to put it in due to our lowest battery shorting across the terminal.
14:29 Daniel, while chasing his boat, somehow gets lost on Mars. Mark Watteny unable to come to the assist
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Filming Daniel: I'll get a shot of the mission planner and where the boat says it ended up.
Editor Daniel: Well that didn't exactly work out in my favor.
Lol “google says it’s a road”. Reminds me when Michael Scott drove into the lake.
Hey, at least it’s not Apple maps.
This felt like a movie, fantastic video
I’ve been watching your channel when you were just starting to build your own quads. I knew then that there was much more to you than just a kid into RC’s. I expect to see great things come from you. Keep up the good work and I love your content! You have a lot of heart!
You should do a telemetry relay drone to send out when it's far away.
Good idear
You going though all that crap with the truck then swimming naked to avoid a swamp, only to get a shot of your junk on the pc screen made this the best video of yours, the editing is pure comedy gold at that point. I'm sure it will all be worth it on the long run.
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Good job as always! Maybe a try would be rotate the propellor the other way to get rid of the seaweeds
2:38 A few nights ago when I was heading somewhere, don't really remember (it was a family dinner or something), we could see the beacon of a airport over the treeline as well. It was pretty cool.
thats called dedication when you get up a 4:30 am for a tiny rc boat, i fide your content so amazing, keep it up!
Exiting! Pinned to the screen all the way trough. You have the skills to make these videos interesting and exiting without dead points. Maybe Discovery Channel or Netflix will contact you:-)
Incredible! It was like a Greek epic we would read in English class
I think a better name for that boat would be "Banana Barge ", it is amazing! I am always impressed by your projects like this.
WOW! YOU ARE A GENIUS! YOUR TALKING ABOUT ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY STUFF LIKE ITS NORMAL! I WISH I COULD LEARN HOW YOU DID ALL THIS! IT JUST LOOKS SUPER COMPLICATED.
GREAT WORK MAN!
its been a very long time since ive been here. good to see youre still going and what a cool project! 🤘🍻
Fun fact: Banks Lake is the reservoir filled by the Grand Coullee dam powering massive pumps to irrigate a big chunk of E. Washington.
lol peacocks, those are definitely turkeys - hens specifically :)
Loving the videos! How about an R/C automated Yacht, complete with wind sock, self adjusting sails and rudder. Hell, you could even put some cannons on one side. I believe you could make it pick its own mini way points so it can tack up wind to your destination.
Excellent adventure 🍌🐌 👍🏻
So what's next????? Sea trip?.
Would a directional antenna help with telemetry signal?.
Great videos, thanks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love the long range waypoint missions.
Seeing as you have a good means of control authority....how about putting a sail on it as well so when it is windy you can go to sail power instead of prop power?
Every video of yours is always so damn inspiring. I love how this series has come along!
Keep up the great content! Love your dedication 😂
I think that your doing something with RC boats that are definitely at a level I never heard of. Your videos are inspiring.
Hey man very cool !! I can't believe it made it !! I laughed at you when you got stuck in the dust from hell and when you had to go slinking through the mud to rescue it off the shoreline . I laughed and also related to your journey. I fly syma 50 to 100 dollar drones and I've spent actual days looking for these things when they go missing. I have spent 20,000 thousand dollar flying wrecking and loosing cheap drones since I've started flying the things. 20 years and alone of happy and unhappy happy trails from bush with Mosquitoes and ticks Black flies and other weird bugs . Been on roof tops of fancy hotels and all kinds of places to retrieve these things back. Met a lot of people that weren't willing to help, phoned the cops on me and got way to many stories to tell but I ain't gonna bore ya . Thats my relating to your experience and 20 years of flying in a nutshell . Cheers brother and remember to keep it shiney side up, keep your stick on the ice and don't do anything i would or you'll end up in jail !!
Dude, autonomous rc boats and offroad adventures? Hella sick! You totally deserve huge props (:p) and I cant wait to see what you do next.
"I'm driving through 4 feet tall grass, there's no road here. Oh there's the road." Classic 🤣
Have you ever thought about a water jet powered boat would love to see it 👍
27:08 - never heard Type 2 fun mentioned in the wild outside of an REI blog and from my friend saying it lol. I love it, awesome work.
i searched REI out of curiosity what you meant, got some unexpected results.