DIY Airboat Build In 3 Days For £26
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2024
- Simon & Robbo build an airboat using only scrap and an old microlight with only a £50 budget set by the wife!
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Simon, need another two rudders, to give you more thrust and control through turns, just link one on each side of the exiting rudder. you won't believe the difference it will make.
agreed. The other two rudders can be on simple pivots and linked to the center. Smaller diameter tires
I went for an airboat ride and looked at the photos. It had two rudders, and the engine was further astern. However, the engine being further back may have been due the need to balance the weight of the passengers. Anyway, AWESOME JOB!!!
Simon you’re a pretty sharp guy and I’m sure you’ve thought of some ear protection. Might have on insert plugs. All the best.
Next time taking the engine off, turn the boat around, so it will roll out of the garage. The stern is lower than the bow. Or lower the front end of the trailer. Great fun Simon ❤
100%, it will greatly increase control. Also, to trim the bow he needs to bring the nose of the aircraft up, not down.
I honestly believe Simon is a MAD DOCTOR of some kind!😂
Wonderful! Gemma buy him some welding goggles for Christmas! Blessings on you both!
I have weird dreams, but none so weird as seeing a sort of vessel I associate with the everglades and alligators gallivanting past Sarinda, in Wales. You two make even weirder dreams come true.
Safety belt? Think sudden stop, like on a sand bar. I believe that’s what they use in the Everglades. Helmet for the operator wouldn’t be amiss.
Looks like a fun ride.
Don’t ruin this with safety gear 😂
Next stop - hovercraft. No worries about hidden mud.
You need to add horizontal stabilizers along with the vertical stearing so you can adjust according to the frontal weight like when you are carrying a person or material.
Love it. Gems let Simon release his Florida man side.
Boat yard hey Simon here the perfect boat to use as a barge to be able to haul all your stuff to and from your boat Simon takes it home immediately turns it into an airboat lol
Making hauling the stuff even faster
Simon and Robbo demonstrating boys and their toys. All work and no play etc. Brilliant fun video. A classic, loved it.
Brilliant!! Like the T shirt says 'I shouldn't be left unsupervised'. 😂 Cobble up a muffler for the exhaust, keep the native happy.
Most of the noise is the prop
Try moving the whole mount one foot to the rear to improve balance for a start and two rudders about two feet apart to give more air flow over the rudders for low speed control. Google fl. Air boat designs. From a fl. Native good luck!
Simon is one clever bloke the best kind of clever i.e. practical
Pure unadulterated genius.
well said sir, these two are just a great pair.
Brilliant Simon! You look as happy as pig in muck!
I love it you all have a second channel. I have only started watching you 9 months ago. I love all your content. I never miss a show now.
Mike from Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada
I built a hovercraft with a big fan on the back. That was loads of fun. I also owned and flew a microlight, like your donor. I enjoyed both, but the hovercraft was much less formal (no licence needed) and heaps of fun.
You crack me up Simon
Your laugh is the best !
Anyway well done haha
Oh and that music at the end ….. hilarious.
Omg! Just saw the bleepers at the end end !
Absolutely fantastic! Genius stuff! Noise? You will be gone before anyone knows you are there!
You Sir were one very happy chappy. Having the time of your life on your homemade airboat.
Not common in the UK but always look so much fun on calm water.
Might want to give your prop a good inspection after it's little bounce at the end. I cringed so hard when that happened. Hope damage wasn't too bad.!
Great content as always from you guys here and on the main channel. Thanks for being yourselves and just enjoying life as much as you can. Your energy really makes every video that much more engaging, makes us all feel part of your little happy Ship Happens family.
It handles far better than I thought it would.
Well done .
By jingos I enjoyed that….outstanding mate, just sheer joy. Thank you both.
Bloody fantastic. Fun boat as well as a workboat.
You amaze me every time I watch the two of you. Two rudders plus just move the engine back a foot should help with the bow.
Absolutely brilliant,well done,cheers Roly🇬🇧.
Boys and toys, love the airboat Simon.
Simon… you are a nutter in the best kinda way! 🇨🇦
Simon now you need get a roll of slick bottom and screw it to the bottom. It will protect the bottom as well as make it easier to go across wet grass ect.
That was a blast. I think I grinned the whole way through that.
I know it wasn't the end that you were going for. But man was it funny. Hope you didn't damage the prop. It amazes me what you build, and it works.
The wackiness refined! Well done! Right out of The Everglades, you will eventually need a small block Chevy! Colin Furze look out…
Hi Simon, this is the best creation ever done. Oh man, I can’t stop laughing. How good this is. Keep up the good work love it Gemma don’t be a spoilsport I love you girl Cliff from Logan city Queensland Australia. I’m on the big island
I went for an airboat ride a few years back and looked at the photos. It had two rudders, and the engine was further astern. However, the engine being further back may have been due the need to balance the weight of the passengers. Anyway, AWESOME JOB!!!
That was flippin AWESOME!! Love it!
What a fantastic project you have to be catching up ship happens subscriptions level soon !
Fingers crossed!
😂 Big kid with a new toy! Works great!
Awesome job Simon, It reminds me of Professor Pat Pending of the Wacky Races. 🤣
OMG!!! Don't break the Prop!!! LoL. Them darn things are the money! LoL. 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎
The airboat is so sweet ! What a cool channel ! Happy holidays and may your wonderful maritime adventures continue ! Now THAT IS ENTERTAINMENT !!
Put skis on the mount points and take it out to where there is snow. 🙂 Looks like it will do well on hauling stuff off of the boat.
Simon, you are just a clever man😊. To keep the locals happy. Maybe put some sort of muffler on the exhaust.
Best project so far, brilliant 🎅🎅🎅🙉😂😂
it was fun!
Simon, I was impressed with the directional stability, those things are notoriously skittish about steering. Good fun to watch. 8-)
Great little boat ! ❤❤❤
Thank you 🤗
So cool and i love it. Real boys and there real toys. Very well done.
The *Seastorm Boats* are based on a boat construction method developed (or at least pioneered) by *Pioner Boats,* another Norwegian boat manufacturer that has been making rotation molded HDPE plastic boats since 1959. I bet that every Norwegian that is a frequent boat user at some point in life has been onboard a Pioner boat, and when you know that no other country has more coastal small boats per person than Norway, EVERYBODY knows a Pioner. It's good they got competition as boat brands are extremely durable working horses made for all-season conditions.
Btw Pioner is made in Aurskog located in the deep forests east of Oslo and just a 15 min drive from where I work. At some point these boats were an inspiration for the car brand Pivco that made tiny EV car brand with HDPE bodies. Pivco was later renamed Think, bought by Ford, but is now dead. *Pivco/Think* is the only industrially based car manufacturer we have had in Norway and in many ways they revolutionized/initiated the policies why Norway is now the world's leading EV country.
Amazingly cool - Simon is a genius...
Simon giggles like a little Kid🤣😂😅😅😆
Fun Project and great innovation. Thanks for presenting.
Would have liked to see yoou and Robbo fly in microlight 🙂
Microlight flying and me don't belong in the same sentence! you seen the size of me?? 🤣
i love a scrapheap challenge - good effort Si
funny i was wondering about the para glider engine noise, they can be particularly annoying where i am, we have three swarming the sea front but only in the summer, so not so bad, but sure the exhausts can be improved (haha go electric)
love that, dropping it to the floor, 'the eagle has landed' and all you needed was an extra 6 inches (bet the Mrs says that)
and wonderful to see Robbo - happy Christmas to everyone
A man after my own heart ✊
Excellent boys toy. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year you you both!!
What a great thing, well done, Simon! Would be nice to have some adjustable pitch control/trim thing that you can adjust on the fly, with your foot or something.
Love the "safety squint". Ear defenders required also when out making noise LOL.
As I watched this, I could imagine you building a hovercraft big enough to carry a half ton of stuff plus a couple of passengers. 😂 You’d have a blast with that, too.😎
fantastic fun - pure joy to watch
😂Air Boat build 2Cool .Merry Christmas to You n Yours from East Texas USA
Happy holidays!
I have an old A drive single ignition 503 Rotax aircraft engine I was thinking about doing the same thing with. Make sure all the wood on that prop is sealed. Bugger will de-laminate, especially in your climate.
Too much fun to be legal 🙂 Great for shallow water or where there is weeds and stuff that would foul a prop.
You could put a small adjustable horizontal trim tab to move the weight balance
Simon, you never cease to amaze me, That air boat is absolutely brilliant.
So' some spoilsport made a complaint about the noise, don't other boats with engine's make a noise where you are then!.
You know the people who buy a house next to a race track and complain about noise, well you get the same at boat yards!
You guys are fucking amazing! Haven't enjoyed a video like this ever I think.
So well done, love it!
Put a screw thread on the nose so the pitch can be fine tuned for getting the trim of the boat just right. Looks fun and it's exactly what i would of done
Amazing! I wondered what you’d do with that aircraft ! Yippeeeee
A wonderful Christmas to the both of you and your family, Looking forward to the new year and your adventures.
A new direction for S.H.A. Airboats by Simon. A great use for that motor. Merry Christmas!
That's a Frankenstein Project! 😂❤
That is an absolutely great design! Well done for what you did and under budget LOL Could you put on perhaps a bigger rudder blade?
brilliant episode! couldn't stop smiling. until the end... oh welll its all about "validation testing";
Right proper swamp buggy! I suppose adding a water rudder o; the bottom of the rudder shaft would make it too twitchy?
You look to have a lot of steel bolted to aluminium there mate, galvanic corrosion will dissolve the alloy in a matter of months.
Apart from that, really cool job, airboats are great fun and you live somewhere that is perfect for them.
If you don't mind me asking, I noticed you weren't using your Yeswelder for the project. Any special reason for that? How has it been holding up as a useful welder?
Thanks mate. Love the project. Looks like loads of fun!
We were MIG welding and the Yes welder doesn’t do that, but we did use the plasma cutter on it for this project. But the yeswelder has given us no issues so far and is a great machine!
@ShipHappensAdventures Ah, cheers! Good to know. I just bought a new one from their kickstarter after seeing it on your video. I'm expecting delivery next week. I'm hoping to use it for help with aluminium and stainless. I think the one I got does MIG too (though i also have my MIG on the side). Thanks for the reply. You guys are awesome! Highlight of my week.
That looks like a ton of fun.
I miss my scrap yard 😢😂 awesome concept to completion. Great fun
Kind of reminds me of the time machine movie when the alarm went off and then the winds of change blew through the shop then into the future. Good thing the clock on the wall didn't start spinning.
That was fun!!!!
Tooooooooooooooooooooooo much fun!
MRCA MULTI ROLE COMBAT AIRBOAT Nicely done sir and what fun can we see air boat tours round sarinda or racing round the estuary. nope noise complaints stop that but jet noise is ok theres a clue there simon. have a safe and happy christmas see you on the other side
Daft bugger! As you say, it needs an adjustment to the thrust line and probably more air rudders. Not the rubbish humper I imagined! 😂
Simon you are a mad genius. Does the ecoflow genny mean your homebrew won't be installed on Sarinda yet?
Fantastic, love it, well done.
17:36 Si Just a suggestion. Might it be worthwhile fitting a couple of outrigger floats that sit about 10 inches above the water so that you won’t capsize. You just look a bit too top heavy I’d be frightened of it tipping over but if you made a cylindrical side tank float and fitted them so that they came out by say 1 m each side and sat about 10 inches above the water line. That way in theory you could fling it into a hard left or right and the side tank should only touch the water if you go too fast into a turn?
Practical for a tidal estuary (if you don't have a hovercraft!), but noisy. Can it go into reverse?
I know other people have suggested adding another silencer. May be that is the solution as you don't have to worry about the added weight like you would in the Gyrocopter?😊
"That didn't go to plan" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 No $hit sherlock!
Worked brilliantly I think - shame about the noise complaint, but could have predicted that would happen! Need to find somewhere even more desolate for the next run. Blackpool seafront maybe? I'm joking!!!!
Suggested improvements:
Multiple rudder blades - as seen on all the best Florida airboats don't you know!
Seat belt
nowt else I can think of right now!
Bloody brilliant!
Richard (no not that one!)
Woww what a supprise loved it great build you are the man with sorting stuff out well done. You stopped because of a noise complaint in the day time on the sea ???? Really try find a quieter exhaust you can play all you like then, stay safe guys have a great Christmas and new year,
Gon yersel looks brilliant fun! 🙏
Good work and play!
Can Simonne and Colin Furze please have a play date? The two of them building something would be fantastic. Of course I live in the states no clue how close you live to each other.
Just realized I spelled Simon wrong. My mother’s name is Simonne. lol
Noise Complaint,.... To the complaintant, get a flipping life.......... That looked like a heck of a lot of fun...xx
Another great storey for the kids huh 👏👏👏
Well done, angreat craft
Proper fun, that!
That airboat looked like one hell of a lot of fun Simon adjust prop pitch and move weight to stern and she will fly along mate, pity about the noise complaint though 👍.
one thing for sure , they will hear you coming a mile away !!! , this is cool !
So you're be showing this of at Southampton boat show next year, you never know you might get some order's. 😎👍
IT"S A RUNNER!!!
well that was impressive fun, shallow draft ,so when the marsh gets covered on a spring tide I bet you could go right across no problems, I want one, just one question, why did you go for a timing separation of engine to ali-punt without at first giving yourself a plan of action by a few trial runs then record, LOL oh yeah and tell our Gemma not to be so tight with her money lol
Whats a few teething problems, once you perfect the quick change rig, you'll be well away, all prototypes need refinement! Very impressive and great fun.
Amazing job.