Nice to see you guys actually cruising and just chilling out. Enjoy your channel. As far as the jiu jitsu, I can just visualize a family out for a peaceful walk and see you guys rolling around off in the distance. I can see the mom telling the kids to cover their eyes, lol. Fan from the US.
Apart from the risk of crashing into others, or bridges, that must be so relaxing. Hell I find it relaxing to watch these videos! Random question, but can boats like yours be powered by an electric engine? (Powered by solar panels) Always wondered about that.
Hi Adam, thanks, glad you find the vids relaxing! To answer your question, yes indeed there are electric boats. Usually they have ten batteries and many more solar panels. They’re getting more popular, but are still much more expensive. I would like to see a day in which there are electric hookup points all over the canal network and incentive schemes for everyone to convert their boats to electric on the cheap 🤔
@@FloatingStranglers Yea I remember seeing videos of hybrid canal boats, which use both electric and the regular diesal?. The diesal part was used to provide extra power and to charge the batteries, where as the motor itself was electric. Speaking of batteries, I wonder how viable it would be to install someting like a tesla powerwall battery (or equivalent) on the boat? given that they're oblong shaped and quite slim, you could in theory slap it on the side of the boat lol Granted it might, if it's heavy, make the boat list a bit, so you'd need to counter balance that weight, or just get two! :) Another thing you could try also, adding framework to your existing solar panels, so you can tilt them towards the sun.
@@averyvaliant Interesting, yeah not sure about the powerwall idea, as you don’t want anything on the outside that could get damaged in a crash. Perhaps they’ll get smaller though to the point you could fit it in the engine bay. The hybrid sounds like a good idea for now, as it provides a means of getting hot water (batteries and solar alone can’t do that), while cutting down on diesel use through electrifying the motor
@@FloatingStranglers Another option might be to lay it on the roof, then put a solar panel on top. Assuming it'll fit under the bridges! Did some searching for electric motor kits and it seems to be "starting from" £15k, oof! :P
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I am enjoying the references to Joe’s mum. The book of knots is wonderful!
Thanks for watching Jim!
Nice to see you guys actually cruising and just chilling out. Enjoy your channel. As far as the jiu jitsu, I can just visualize a family out for a peaceful walk and see you guys rolling around off in the distance. I can see the mom telling the kids to cover their eyes, lol. Fan from the US.
LOL that vision of a traumatised family was too much 😂 Thanks for watching, great to have a fan across the pond 👋 🇺🇸
Summer cruising must be the best! Great video guys. Hopefully
See you soon.
Thanks for watching Kris!
Apart from the risk of crashing into others, or bridges, that must be so relaxing. Hell I find it relaxing to watch these videos!
Random question, but can boats like yours be powered by an electric engine? (Powered by solar panels)
Always wondered about that.
Hi Adam, thanks, glad you find the vids relaxing! To answer your question, yes indeed there are electric boats. Usually they have ten batteries and many more solar panels. They’re getting more popular, but are still much more expensive. I would like to see a day in which there are electric hookup points all over the canal network and incentive schemes for everyone to convert their boats to electric on the cheap 🤔
@@FloatingStranglers Yea I remember seeing videos of hybrid canal boats, which use both electric and the regular diesal?. The diesal part was used to provide extra power and to charge the batteries, where as the motor itself was electric.
Speaking of batteries, I wonder how viable it would be to install someting like a tesla powerwall battery (or equivalent) on the boat? given that they're oblong shaped and quite slim, you could in theory slap it on the side of the boat lol
Granted it might, if it's heavy, make the boat list a bit, so you'd need to counter balance that weight, or just get two! :)
Another thing you could try also, adding framework to your existing solar panels, so you can tilt them towards the sun.
@@averyvaliant Interesting, yeah not sure about the powerwall idea, as you don’t want anything on the outside that could get damaged in a crash. Perhaps they’ll get smaller though to the point you could fit it in the engine bay. The hybrid sounds like a good idea for now, as it provides a means of getting hot water (batteries and solar alone can’t do that), while cutting down on diesel use through electrifying the motor
@@FloatingStranglers Another option might be to lay it on the roof, then put a solar panel on top. Assuming it'll fit under the bridges!
Did some searching for electric motor kits and it seems to be "starting from" £15k, oof! :P
@@averyvaliant That could work! Yeah those conversion kits aren’t cheap…