Thanks! The low headroom on yours was definitely part of my planning process! I'm also enjoying your lobster boat videos, I used to crew on something like that :-)
I'm in the middle of doing this with a pontoon with a collapsible roof. so far so good, I think we should be able to make just under a kilowatt at peak sun!
100% I love how almost every episode starts with a pile of non-related parts that most people would toss in the bin except here we usually end up with something pretty rad.
@@davharzin2370 No, it needs a daggerboard for stability which is why the original manufacturer of the boat provided the facility to fit one. A rudder is for steering on sailboats or with inboard motors, when you have an outboard on such a small boat a separate rudder is not required.
@DonHavjuan Nope, plenty of small single hulled boats use daggerboards. A daggerboard fits down vertically into the slot built into the hull, which is what this boat is designed to have. A centreboard is attached via a pivot near the top so it can swing backwards and up into a housing.
The Benevolent Orange Man watches in confusion from the shore as the young buck pushes off into unknown waters and wonders to himself what happens if the giant battery pack gets dunked. Benevolent Orange Man wishes him well.
If you get sick of pushing the button on the DC booster to get to level 5 on the trolling motor, you could get an AC to DC inverter or power supply and plug into the AC outlets. Since you're getting plenty of power with the solar panels, the losses due to the invertor will be negligible.
Been watching your videos for a few months now. I have a passion for radio, satilites, electronics, solar... even boating. Now I find out you're in Minnesota too? Like looking in a mirror. Wish I could make more time for the awesome projects you are doing. Keep it up!
Your wife must be quite understanding with your whole collection. You always surprise me with each video. Thank you for sharing. I learn something each time.
I found this guy recently and got immediately addicted! Love his enthusiasm and talent to convey the joy of fiddling around with junk to make something beautiful, interesting and funny... Keep up the good work!
A solar-powered boat, what a brilliant idea and a fantastic project! I really appreciate the combination of using both used and new components for the projects. And even when the sun isn't shining and the batteries are depleted, you can still sail with the boat. I find this fusion of a solar-powered boat and a sailboat to be really impressive.
Fun project, great video! 👍 I made a solar powered canoe a few years ago, but lost most of my video clips when my phone went in the lake 😂 I still managed to make summary video though. One of my more popular non-forging videos.
Great project Gabe, always fun to see someone ‘messing around’ in a boat. Glad it held together on the bone shaker roads, sounds like your roads are about as good as the majority of England’s. Best wishes
You could use a relay to seamlessly switch between the jump start booster and cigarette lighter. I think if you wire the relay to energize from the jump starter to switch the input to the motor over to it, you can press the jump start button when you want to use the higher speed, and then when the time runs out it'll switch back to the lighter port, assuming you've switched back to a lower speed at that point so it doesn't immediately cut out the power to the lighter port
for better steering, you probably need to insert an center board into the slit in the cockpit. Looks similar to the type of boat called Laser and since you are not racing or sailing for that matter, you can probably insert a water treated plywood about a meter long and that shoudl give you quite good stability in going straight and turning.
@@SvobodniyNicit stands for Department of Natural Resources. They are the people who police "Natural Resources", such as fishing, hunting, and boating. They primarily look for people breaking laws related to the outdoors basically. So if you put a boat on the water without registration they could give you a ticket
@@NarNarHDAre you required to registered any boat in USA and Minnesota specifically? Where I live you have to register only if your boat is longer than 4 meters or engine is more powerful than 10 kW. If your one is too small or not powerful enough, you can still register but it is not necessary but I'm not sure whether you have to register to access big rivers and sea.
the black thing with the button is just a reverse polarity/anti charge protection for jumping vehicles so that you dont cause a fire hooking it up backwards or if the vehicle starts and then begins charging the battery. You can just break it open and bypass it, nothing special. Maybe consider a ~70a fuse on it
Oh my god. These videos keep getting crazier and crazier. A real sense of freedom coming out of this, in a sense of a man being capable of creating everything with almost nothing. Truly a reappropriation of technology and science by the people. Similar feeling to Kevin Mitnick. Very inspiring dude!
Just my .02 worth, The drywall toggle bolts will eventually eat a hole through your fiberglass if you dont put a backing plate that is tougher than those metal wings. Dont lose your solar panels! Best wishes, love your video and it answered a few questions for me for future projects. Keep up the great work of saving things from the dump.
Thanks! Yeah that was fun, always interesting when someone recognizes me or my terrible boats. I keep meaning to get out on the lake with this more often, but we're running out of nice weather!
Yes, most impressive of all your follies! As for steering controllability how about locking trolling motor in place and adding a tiller paddle behind it for steering? I think it would provide you less drastic directional responses than turning the trolling motor.
Dear St. Paul, while worried about your cash flow in “Paul-Land” I saw you on Snail Lake with a modern electric yacht. That still you’ve been running over in Badger Land is paying generously. Keep your spirits high!
A kooky suggestion would be to run the motor up through the daggerboard slot, perhaps widening the base of the thruhull space so you can raise the prop high enough to not damage it on the trailer/shore. Then you could steer with your feet while facing forward with the overall boat staying more horizontal. Though cleaning prop of vegetation might be a difficult task.
There are usually a few cheap/free boats on Craigslist / FB Marketplace, usually in the spring when people are cleaning up, or in the fall after the boating season. If you can get one with a trailer, that's always a plus! Usually need at least *some* repairs and cleaning, but that's part of the fun :-)
im sure with not a lot of hackery you could get that jump start lead to be a permanent on adaptor, that lead probably shuts the connection when the alternator spins up and starts charging. all that shouldnt be needed for your less than 20 amps your pulling. great video would love to see a part 2!
I find these electric motors fun and practical on short ranges. I've been gliding around the lake using one. They are also comfortably silent. I've had 1 issue with the ergonomics of the steering/control rod. It consistently remains at an awkward angle, positioned behind my back, leading to discomfort while trying to manage and steer on a little bit longer distances. Your boat seems to have a greater distance between the motor and the sitting position. Compared to my experience using these on a standard rowboat, where the control rod passes right by your armpit when you're sitting right next to the motor.
I grew up driving outboards, so I actually prefer the tiller steering! This one has the weird foot pedal (which I'm using as a hand pedal since the cable isn't long enough). I could probably modify this to a steering wheel pretty easily, but the pedal works for now.
That type of connector is called EC5, you can buy one and solder it directly or modify the one you have for jumpstarter, just bypass the relay inside the black box
An idea, replace the power bank with leisure batteries, a solar charge controller and you can run your outboard straight from the batteries, a small inverter can be clamped on the batteries for mains charging
I was seriously thinking that, I wonder if anybody's actually tried that, never seen it, so just assumed there was a reason. Or maybe this is how Florida man kills so many manatees...
Outstanding work 😁.... Even if you're not an R/C guy, you would still likely dig RC Test Flight on YT . The dude is a legend amongst us interdisciplinary tinkerers 😅😊.
you only need a 30ah battery to work with your solar charger to put out enough amps for your small troller if your panels are otherwise generating the juice you are needing. even a 30ah battery might never gets depleted. my 30lb troller consumes about 165 watts,.
great video i believe the output from your battery uses an XT90 connector, if you built a custom cable you wouldn't have to hit the boost button. also this looks very similar to RCFlightTest's boat, the only difference is he has built anautopilot and custom motor/props.
Connect it to a 100ah lifepo4 battery and a NOCO GC018 female 12 volt plug and you’ll be set, the lifepo4 battery has a 100 amp BMS. The price has come way down on the lifepo4 batteries.
Great project! My biggest concern is having AC outlets near the water. In case of an emergency, does this battery pack have some protection to shut down if water is spilled?
I'm not an expert, I sure don't claim to be one, but I /believe/ those floats are actually drop tanks from aircraft, they would be hooked up to mounting points under the wings to give the plane more range, and would be well, dropped in flight to save the extra weight, that's my theory at least.
Put a potato cannon on that craft and you'll have a navy. Together with your potato cannon tank you'll be ready to conquer the world! Just kinda slowly...
Struth, if you could buy a kit to build something like this, with BYO DIY as much as you like, it would be smashing. Open source, community project, anyone?
make an adapter for the booster output with the same connector (might be xt type). you want a nice fuse in there...quick and easy and you'll make this in no time :D
I would like to see you add a faster prop to this boat see if you can get it to atleast 20 miles per hour and maybe make a canopy or enclosed seating area that you could open up maybe detachable walls and permanent canopy.
fantastic project! much roomier than putting panels overhead (I would know!)
Thanks! The low headroom on yours was definitely part of my planning process! I'm also enjoying your lobster boat videos, I used to crew on something like that :-)
shade is underrated!
I'm in the middle of doing this with a pontoon with a collapsible roof. so far so good, I think we should be able to make just under a kilowatt at peak sun!
This sort of excellence in jankiness is what I keep coming back for.
I do not think this word 'jankiness' means what you think it means.
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100% I love how almost every episode starts with a pile of non-related parts that most people would toss in the bin except here we usually end up with something pretty rad.
Never before have I seen a TH-camr I want to hang out with more
A dagger board would keep the boat going straighter, and being less spinny… great project, and it looked like it was fun to make.
dagger would help very little... need a rudder, even if its a fixed rudder
@@davharzin2370 WAIT. Thats just a daggerboard
@@davharzin2370 No, it needs a daggerboard for stability which is why the original manufacturer of the boat provided the facility to fit one. A rudder is for steering on sailboats or with inboard motors, when you have an outboard on such a small boat a separate rudder is not required.
Daggerboards are for cats. This needs a centerboard
@DonHavjuan Nope, plenty of small single hulled boats use daggerboards. A daggerboard fits down vertically into the slot built into the hull, which is what this boat is designed to have. A centreboard is attached via a pivot near the top so it can swing backwards and up into a housing.
Glad to see the solar panels in use! Perhaps I'll get around to building something from the Apollo100 one of these days 🤔
Thanks again, this was a fun project!
Can't wait for part two for the satellite dish addition. lmao
Fantastic! Use what you got. Thx to Norvin for the battery. Eric.
Other than the unwarranted, brutal attack on the milk crate manufacturers, this is one of my favorites yet.
The Benevolent Orange Man watches in confusion from the shore as the young buck pushes off into unknown waters and wonders to himself what happens if the giant battery pack gets dunked. Benevolent Orange Man wishes him well.
If you get sick of pushing the button on the DC booster to get to level 5 on the trolling motor, you could get an AC to DC inverter or power supply and plug into the AC outlets. Since you're getting plenty of power with the solar panels, the losses due to the invertor will be negligible.
Yep, that's an option I considered. A little inefficient but the solar panels were making plenty of juice even early in the morning with the sun low.
writing without watching. A paddlewheel design will be a chef's kiss level of satisfying
Been watching your videos for a few months now. I have a passion for radio, satilites, electronics, solar... even boating. Now I find out you're in Minnesota too? Like looking in a mirror. Wish I could make more time for the awesome projects you are doing. Keep it up!
lol these videos have slowly shown up in my feed over the last few weeks. Same. Also same. Living in LA but mostly grew up in MN.
Stick the daggerboard in to make steering a bit more reasonable
Don't think I have one for this, although I might have a spare for my little sailing dinghy that might fit.
This man is living a childhood dream! Bravo!
Your wife must be quite understanding with your whole collection. You always surprise me with each video. Thank you for sharing. I learn something each time.
The ultimate eco boat project: electric and repurposing a hull. Kudos!
Nice project - a paddle will get you through those weeds
I found this guy recently and got immediately addicted! Love his enthusiasm and talent to convey the joy of fiddling around with junk to make something beautiful, interesting and funny... Keep up the good work!
A solar-powered boat, what a brilliant idea and a fantastic project! I really appreciate the combination of using both used and new components for the projects. And even when the sun isn't shining and the batteries are depleted, you can still sail with the boat. I find this fusion of a solar-powered boat and a sailboat to be really impressive.
Fun project, great video! 👍
I made a solar powered canoe a few years ago, but lost most of my video clips when my phone went in the lake 😂 I still managed to make summary video though. One of my more popular non-forging videos.
Sounds fun, I'll check it out :-)
Great project Gabe, always fun to see someone ‘messing around’ in a boat. Glad it held together on the bone shaker roads, sounds like your roads are about as good as the majority of England’s. Best wishes
Well that was a cool little project and a very good hull choice to make it all work!
You could use a relay to seamlessly switch between the jump start booster and cigarette lighter. I think if you wire the relay to energize from the jump starter to switch the input to the motor over to it, you can press the jump start button when you want to use the higher speed, and then when the time runs out it'll switch back to the lighter port, assuming you've switched back to a lower speed at that point so it doesn't immediately cut out the power to the lighter port
Came here form your satellite videos and was reminded what youtube should be like. Thank you!
Im just so glad it doesnt look ridiculous.
This guy is living the life I want, this is my reaction every time I see your videos, support from China.
for better steering, you probably need to insert an center board into the slit in the cockpit. Looks similar to the type of boat called Laser and since you are not racing or sailing for that matter, you can probably insert a water treated plywood about a meter long and that shoudl give you quite good stability in going straight and turning.
"The Minnesota DNR would like to know your location"
What does this mean? DNR?
@@SvobodniyNicit stands for Department of Natural Resources. They are the people who police "Natural Resources", such as fishing, hunting, and boating. They primarily look for people breaking laws related to the outdoors basically. So if you put a boat on the water without registration they could give you a ticket
@@NarNarHD Okay, Got It!
@@NarNarHDAre you required to registered any boat in USA and Minnesota specifically? Where I live you have to register only if your boat is longer than 4 meters or engine is more powerful than 10 kW. If your one is too small or not powerful enough, you can still register but it is not necessary but I'm not sure whether you have to register to access big rivers and sea.
@@pavuk357 Non-motorized watercraft 10ft or less do not require registration.
The chaos, yet very nice plan and execution in your videos makes you just so sympathetic :D
Nice Project, love your videos!
Congrats on the success of the project.
All it's missing is a weather satellite receiver/decoder setup, since you have so much excess power it should be no problem to run that!
I love how in the first painting shot, you had a red shirt and the boat was white. Then the boat was red and you had a white shirt.
Ha, I didn't even notice that!
the black thing with the button is just a reverse polarity/anti charge protection for jumping vehicles so that you dont cause a fire hooking it up backwards or if the vehicle starts and then begins charging the battery.
You can just break it open and bypass it, nothing special. Maybe consider a ~70a fuse on it
Oh my god. These videos keep getting crazier and crazier. A real sense of freedom coming out of this, in a sense of a man being capable of creating everything with almost nothing. Truly a reappropriation of technology and science by the people. Similar feeling to Kevin Mitnick. Very inspiring dude!
Good deal, always fun to have a successful first run!
Just my .02 worth, The drywall toggle bolts will eventually eat a hole through your fiberglass if you dont put a backing plate that is tougher than those metal wings. Dont lose your solar panels! Best wishes, love your video and it answered a few questions for me for future projects. Keep up the great work of saving things from the dump.
Great project and very executed. You have no limits.
I love your projects! Most gangster geek entertainment on youtube, keep it up!
dude words can not express how much i love your videos. Its like my mind, in a channel. Its dope
Best DIY Channel on TH-cam. Love you
Freaking love it. Great job for the parts!
He in search of One Eye Willy's ship ! Hey You Guyyyyysssss!!
Ha, wait until you see what I have coming up soon! 🏴☠️
@@saveitforparts Cheers ! :D
Hey I recognize that boat! It was super cool meeting you at the boat launch, keep up the awesome content!
Thanks! Yeah that was fun, always interesting when someone recognizes me or my terrible boats. I keep meaning to get out on the lake with this more often, but we're running out of nice weather!
Nice job man. Grab your pi-quarter and get a noaa pass from the lake sometime. Keep up the great work.
Yes, most impressive of all your follies! As for steering controllability how about locking trolling motor in place and adding a tiller paddle behind it for steering? I think it would provide you less drastic directional responses than turning the trolling motor.
Dear St. Paul, while worried about your cash flow in “Paul-Land” I saw you on Snail Lake with a modern electric yacht.
That still you’ve been running over in Badger Land is paying generously. Keep your spirits high!
This channel is so underrated its unreal
That is a very impressive battery. Need to see if DIY Solar with Will Prowse or Hobotech have put it through the paces.
You have finally created an infinite range fishing boat!
Beautiful quiet boat.
Oh so that's what solar sails look like! 🌞
Great job ❤ Now can you get it registered 😂??? What would be neet is to make it look like TOUGY is towing it around 😂😂. 73 Leo.
A kooky suggestion would be to run the motor up through the daggerboard slot, perhaps widening the base of the thruhull space so you can raise the prop high enough to not damage it on the trailer/shore. Then you could steer with your feet while facing forward with the overall boat staying more horizontal. Though cleaning prop of vegetation might be a difficult task.
Really nice drone shots!
Next we need some motorised steering and throttle control. And then an autopilot.
Man.. this has become my favorite channel here!
"so now that we've got this old sail boat looking prettier... well less ugly... well its red" earned a sub at this point :D
Thanks! It's amazing what a couple rattle-cans will do for an old junky vehicle 😂
Lovely project! thank you sir!
Now I want to get my hands on a cheep boat to do quirky stuff in
There are usually a few cheap/free boats on Craigslist / FB Marketplace, usually in the spring when people are cleaning up, or in the fall after the boating season. If you can get one with a trailer, that's always a plus! Usually need at least *some* repairs and cleaning, but that's part of the fun :-)
Well done, there is a major problem here that your shadow on panel will stop the charging..
If you gut the relay board out of the jumper cable plug end, wire it directly it wont cut out.
Rough roads in Minnesota!?! Hard to believe given the fact that the national infrastructure is stronger than ever
Another beauty, keep it up. Really look forward to these vids.
im sure with not a lot of hackery you could get that jump start lead to be a permanent on adaptor, that lead probably shuts the connection when the alternator spins up and starts charging. all that shouldnt be needed for your less than 20 amps your pulling. great video would love to see a part 2!
Interesting. I have an old trolling motor and was considering making a remote control shark. To amuse/alarm the neighbors you understand....
That's epic man. Looks super fun :D.
Super awesome project! Well done and I can't wait to see what's next!
I find these electric motors fun and practical on short ranges. I've been gliding around the lake using one. They are also comfortably silent.
I've had 1 issue with the ergonomics of the steering/control rod. It consistently remains at an awkward angle, positioned behind my back, leading to discomfort while trying to manage and steer on a little bit longer distances.
Your boat seems to have a greater distance between the motor and the sitting position. Compared to my experience using these on a standard rowboat, where the control rod passes right by your armpit when you're sitting right next to the motor.
I grew up driving outboards, so I actually prefer the tiller steering! This one has the weird foot pedal (which I'm using as a hand pedal since the cable isn't long enough). I could probably modify this to a steering wheel pretty easily, but the pedal works for now.
That type of connector is called EC5, you can buy one and solder it directly or modify the one you have for jumpstarter, just bypass the relay inside the black box
I bought an EC5 and it's not quite the same, there's a hidden 3rd pin (probably to engage the relay). I'll have to fool around with it some more.
That’s an awesome project! I would like to do something similar with my Kayak.
Man that is awesome, works so well. Well done.
GREAT IDEAS, Amazing channel, as always, hats off bro!!
Very symmetrical!
11:48 nyeeeeooooooo drift king!
I spoke to the milk crate manufacturer, they were OK with your use case
"...looking much prettier. Well, less ugly. Well.. it's red." I'm dead LOL
Im thinking of this exact thing and been doing for months. 😅 gonna start my build this winter stay tuned.
It's done. On my channel now there is a presentation and demonstration of the build 😊 thank you for the inspiration!
Awesome build 😊, life jackets are better worn though... 😉 Stay safe
I just loved to watch your video!
An idea, replace the power bank with leisure batteries, a solar charge controller and you can run your outboard straight from the batteries, a small inverter can be clamped on the batteries for mains charging
put a razor blade on the prop shaft to trim weeds
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I was seriously thinking that,
I wonder if anybody's actually tried that, never seen it, so just assumed there was a reason.
Or maybe this is how Florida man kills so many manatees...
Not an expert but I think that boat would benefit from having a centerboard/keel to pivot against, that might help a bit with the oversteering issue
Airplane noises..... Sorry about that 😅
I'm here for the building and for the jokes.... "Nor the maker of these milks crates." So great!!!
Outstanding work 😁.... Even if you're not an R/C guy, you would still likely dig RC Test Flight on YT . The dude is a legend amongst us interdisciplinary tinkerers 😅😊.
Next up 4 battery packs and twin trolling motors.
Drop a board in the keel slot, might make it go straighter.
you only need a 30ah battery to work with your solar charger to put out enough amps for your small troller if your panels are otherwise generating the juice you are needing. even a 30ah battery might never gets depleted. my 30lb troller consumes about 165 watts,.
great video
i believe the output from your battery uses an XT90 connector, if you built a custom cable you wouldn't have to hit the boost button.
also this looks very similar to RCFlightTest's boat, the only difference is he has built anautopilot and custom motor/props.
Connect it to a 100ah lifepo4 battery and a NOCO GC018 female 12 volt plug and you’ll be set, the lifepo4 battery has a 100 amp BMS. The price has come way down on the lifepo4 batteries.
Great project! My biggest concern is having AC outlets near the water. In case of an emergency, does this battery pack have some protection to shut down if water is spilled?
You can turn off the AC, and it does have built-in circuit breakers. A waterproof housing would be ideal, although some cooling is still needed.
@@saveitforpartsSubmersible water cooling should work great :) (pun intended)
I'm not an expert, I sure don't claim to be one, but I /believe/ those floats are actually drop tanks from aircraft, they would be hooked up to mounting points under the wings to give the plane more range, and would be well, dropped in flight to save the extra weight, that's my theory at least.
I think you might be right, although I couldn't find a connection for the fuel. They might have been modified for something else over time.
Everyone send this man a ratchet strap.
That boat have a removable keel spot like some sunfish? Might help with the spinout
great cheap fun!
MOAR POWAAAAARRRR! 😀
Great job 👍
Put a potato cannon on that craft and you'll have a navy. Together with your potato cannon tank you'll be ready to conquer the world!
Just kinda slowly...
This is awesome!
Struth, if you could buy a kit to build something like this, with BYO DIY as much as you like, it would be smashing.
Open source, community project, anyone?
To quote a great dad of science........" this is awesome "
make an adapter for the booster output with the same connector (might be xt type). you want a nice fuse in there...quick and easy and you'll make this in no time :D
I would like to see you add a faster prop to this boat see if you can get it to atleast 20 miles per hour and maybe make a canopy or enclosed seating area that you could open up maybe detachable walls and permanent canopy.