SOLAR POWERED INFLATABLE BOAT PONTOON.

[stevenabb]

I am supposed to give up my Mercury 115 engine and water ski boat for that thing?! No thanks... I know you look super cool in that yellow cage ecothingie... and I am sure plenty of hot chicks want to be seen around the marina with you and your um... eco boat. Call me silly, but for some reason I like taking more passengers than a miniture poodle and a couple of 2 litter bottles of Pepsi. One other point I am not too crazy about being trapped in a cube with wires if something starts to sink.

[venyusz01]

Yeah,I want one for night fishing :) Flames on me,if you don't get the joke.Btw,I personally think it is a great idea! I want one!

[ebach1]

nice bideo :)

[labmastersteve]

I'm not sure I'd personally enjoy this, I LOVE LOVE being on the water....but looking at this lil baby run around the harbor it seems your pretty constricted on board. You can't fish, and swimming would be a pain in the butt due to the cross hair supports located on each side. Would feel to restricted on the water, unnatural even :-(

[Slyz3r24]

I can just imagine using " yea girl I got a boat" as a pickup line. Then taking her to this.......

[otivaeey]

i guess you are using low efficiency thin film sheets. Get fast dude, hate waiting, don't you? increase surface, use crystalline cells.

[boatstogo]

@otivaeey Well, they are too heavy, that is why we used flexible sun pannels.

[otivaeey]

@boatstogo I am aware of that too. Why don't you put two more thin film solar panels by the sides and increase the speed by three? Just a suggestion. For me, I will increase solar panels as many as possible.

I guess it's a bit inconvenient to fish in the boat because hood is low, but you get shade, that's pleasurable!!!

[tommy407]

@otivaeey It's cheaper just to build your own with crystalline cells and you get faster speed.

[U2384U]

Brilliant! low hassle - no messing with dirty smelly expensive fuel - no noise - no fumes - dont need wind so useful near shore - great work guys!

[mrfireclaw]

im looking for something like that but lite for a bob set up

[boatstogo]

We get totoal of 4 hours of non-stop riding time with 2 standard ($80) deep cycle batteries and 3 flexible solar panels 60W each, charging one battery while other was discharging with motor running. I mean like, how oftern you would ride longer than 4 hours non-stop? So, overall that is good result, I would say. I think this boat would be great as a slow cruiser on a lake or river or bay or Intracoastal waters, as in this case. I am not sure if that is good for Ocean.

[boatstogo]

We get totoal of 4 hours of non-stop riding time with 2 standard ($80) deep cycle batteries and 3 flexible solar panels 60W each, charging one battery while other was discharging with motor running.

[jonnyasprin]

cool,looks like it works great.How long does a charge last and how long to recharge the batterys with the sun alone? I want to put solar collectors on a golf cart...tks for the video post..

[oscarfish48]

the sides look like bananas... :D

[TheWaldorock]

now we can cross the boarder with the planet in mind

[Dyzm]

I think he's going back to cuba in embaressment.....very slowly.

[sibiriak10]

Класс!!!!!!!

[cacaman100o]

wow thats its top speed i could swim faster than that

[Damir819]

How many Watt has the Solar Panel ??

[IslandMultimedia]

Interesting!

[pyroboy08]

you know, there is this great new technology that is cheaper than this, it runs of of wind power its called a sail boat.

[Bigjohnnywad]

@pyroboy08 Always some asshole like you to bring a good idea down...Your life must suck

[pyroboy08]

@Bigjohnnywad I didn't mean to piss you off but seriously, its an extremely expensive and impractical solution to a simple problem that was solved a thousand years ago.

[Bigjohnnywad]

@pyroboy08 You did not piss me off at all.

[sikkkboii]

did you make that all by yourself or did you have help? you wasted your time and money. Gas Power! if you made a boat that runs on farts id be impressed.

[lastromantic1234]

Great idea. Wrong boat and solar panels. Definitely need to be able to cast while fishing. Use a single 220+ watt panel mounted sideways. Newer solar panels also use less space then when this was prototyped. Mount the panel on the back 1/2 of the boat to free up the front for fishing. The panel will provide shade from sun/rain. Or, simply double the length of the boat for room fore/aft for us scuba/fishing/...... junkies. This would be a great little rental boat at a resort lake.

[gopherdude9]

cool but i bet its hard to fish in how do u cast?

[G00SE216]

sweet party boat dude. i'd like to have a beer with you.

[potoose]

Duffy boats need solar

Lear boats need price drop

Loon boats need style

This boat needs me :)

[beakill]

good idea,but how would i cast a line,for fishing... towing the panels idea makes good sense for 2 reasons,wind and casting a line.

[auzziman911]

if you go all the way out in the water with your boat why would you want to cast out??? lmao you only need to drop it over the side

[Whatevz7]

Wonderful application of solar. Faster than paddling, shade and very quiet.

[kizlmynizl]

Not that impressive :-/

[dshelton16]

Is there a price range anyone could give me for one of these?

[boatstogo]

$2000- $4000

[MrRiceowlex]

@boatstogo Are you running the electric motor strictly off the solar panels ? Thanks..

[MrRiceowlex]

@MrRiceowlex Should read before posting 2 deep cycle batteries..I assume these are 12 volt ?

[TheSKINAUTIQUE]

@boatstogo Woah! at $4000 you could get a used ski boat for that.

[FROSTBITE23]

@boatstogo for 4k ill buy a real boat or a wave runner lol, pretty neat though

[HDErikBlog]

@dshelton16 rubber boat 50 $ solar panel 200$ engine 300$

[Crazy1991Rocker]

@dshelton16 just search on eBay for some solar pannels and a small motor with a propeller and you can build one yourself.I don't find it too hard

[kylegap]

NOW GO FAST! hahahaha! OMG, this is FAST!!!

[cdltpx]

Much faster than I can paddle.Perfect for the intercoastal canal. Nice and quiet great ride.

Some one is going to build a solar sail boat so when the wind is dead they can propell at a moderate speed till they regain wind.

[joeltwo3]

with a little wind you would be in trouble

[cdltpx]

If he towed the solar panels on a raft wind would not be an issue.

[kylegap]

can't find it on website.

[plasticmanbob]

Good for little lakes, but I'm afraid that with little waves you could turn upside down.

[leviterande]

really beautiful and with the sound of the birds

[simosera]

nice! look like two bananas. I want it too!!

[MikeTheAnnoying]

I want one =).

[Schenkelmeyer]

Nifty!

[mgdriven]

Wow, that should be way in a future, hybrid boats...

[eatpogs]

neat concept, but at what cost? I do like it though!