 Hey, yeah, I decided to go to town and I got in my little boat here, and I noticed my batteries were not fully charged It's not ideal when going to town be good charge and the weather has been pretty questionable today It was blue skies and I was like all right. I just got to go for it. So I got in my boat and started driving And I'm most of the way to town right now And I started driving and I was like all right. Let me just drive slow speed So maybe with the Sun coming in on the solar panels I might not be using much power. Maybe I'll even charge a little bit as I go But you know early in the morning the Sun isn't as strong So I wasn't getting that much energy So I was definitely still using some from the batteries But I was like well, let me just go with this for a while and then after a while I was like, you know what? I think I've got an idea for this And whenever I'm driving I sometimes grab my paddle here and just paddle for a little bit anyway But then I was like you know what I could do I could turn this into a workout because I don't have my pedals here anymore No more pedals in the boat, right? So I don't get exercise when I'm driving unless I'm paddling but it's not really real Exercise before I got real exercise So I was like all right, let's turn this into a workout I'm gonna do a hundred paddle strokes with no battery power on and I do have I didn't have my solar panel switch on So it's still getting a bit of power here. I can show you the difference Here the motor right now it's on the lowest battery setting with the solar panels and right now it's just the solar panels So it's definitely slower And right now I'm getting I'm getting pretty good son earlier. I wasn't getting this good son. Anyway So I was like, let me just let me run my boat just on solar panels while I do a hundred paddles I don't know how long a hundred paddles takes What's it like? two seconds per paddle Yeah Somewhere around two seconds per paddle So 200 seconds ish Maybe three minutes so then Put my paddle away, and I put my boat on low speed And then it's using battery again You know do that for I don't know five minutes. I'm not I'm not really time in it I was aiming for it to be somewhere around the same amount of time as I was paddling I don't know. It's probably probably about five minutes three minutes paddling ish Maybe a little more three or four minutes paddling. Let's say it's eight minutes between each thing So I do that eight times. That's 80 minutes an hour and 20 minutes and I got me most of the way here Now I'm definitely within sight of town. I don't know. It's like a couple miles away And I was a couple miles in maybe a few miles in before I started I think that's a pretty good way to do this Because that way I get to go on the way to town Without really using any battery And with the amount of sun I'm getting right now, I'm pretty sure I'm actually charging the batteries More than I'm using them right now So that's good. I'm pretty sure I'm at least not using any battery Yeah, every time I was paddling it was just fully charging not using anything from batteries so Yeah, she basically gets a town having used no battery actually charging which is good because Then you know on the way home, I never know what the weather is gonna do. It looks like it's gonna be a nice sunny day But who knows? The weather can change anytime So anyway, I think that's I think that's what I'm probably gonna do for a while till I come up with a better way to do it Now I'm just gonna shut up and let you enjoy the ride of it on low power speed All right here. I've got my little readout telling me I'm getting almost 11 amps coming into the battery right now It's really nice having that because then I can adjust the solar panels And I can see now it's down to under 10 And I can really fine-tune it into like Maximum power. All right getting almost 11 there All right, it looks like right now. I want it fully tilted to the side Which means it's still pretty early if the sky if the Sun is Still way over there. It's pretty early still That means I made pretty good time getting down Which I knew because I mean it looks like I'm going pretty fast Well, okay, here's here's my Spidometer, otherwise known as a speedometer. This is how I check out fasting Why I put my hand in the water up to this this first crease on my middle finger like up to my knuckle And then I kind of see how high it's flashing but that's pretty fast Like if it gets if it splashes up to the top of my hand That's pretty good speed for my old boat. This boat is going way way above my hand. Yeah, this is That's a good speed You know what I should do get a GPS in this boat Make a little stick that I can stick in the water have one line on the stick For how how how deep I have to put it in the water And then have measurements on the stick for how high the splash comes off it for different speeds That would actually be kind of nice to have although My hand's good enough. I don't need to know exactly Although even if I just did it with the GPS with my hand sometimes Then I would actually have a you know a reasonably Accurate way to measure with my hand, you know, I could say halfway up my palm is like four knots Up to my the top of my palm is like five or six or something Up to my elbow is I don't know Gotta say this is just a beautiful day And I'm feeling great Oh, I just did that last paddle that was my 10th paddle So I'm done my workout and yeah, I'm feeling pretty good. I always feel amazing after workouts Oh, I'm over 11 volts or 11 amps right now. That's great Oh, yeah, I'm just feeling good man. This is great I love this. This is about my Electrical setup in this boat and a lot of them really so I have two solar panels the rear two solar panels Go through this charge controller and then charge the battery And you know the battery runs the motor or whatever And I'll run headlights when I get headlights on this boat. Oh, I gotta get headlights on I have the headlights Anyway, and then I the the other two solar panels the front two solar panels They run through a little switch up here directly to the motor The question I always get is why don't I just have all four solar panels? Charging the battery one I would need a bigger charge controller So it costs more blah blah, but that's not a big deal. I mean I could get a big charge controller But the other thing that I really like about it is that I can totally turn off the battery system. I can turn off the battery switch completely like that And now I'm running just on the solar panels and I know That I'm charging the batteries So I'm driving off the solar panels and the other solar panels are are charging the batteries I'm not using any battery. I know that they're charging And I know that whatever whatever is going on a little readout here. They're getting 11 amps of energy going into them right now but like if I you know right now I'm running with some batteries I mean I'm running with the batteries and the solar panels and I'm not sure How much energy is going into the batteries and how much is going into the motor from the battery So I don't know if I'm actually charging or discharging the batteries right now My guess is that it's pretty close to even pretty close to doing nothing Um, yeah, I want to have the when I have the switches set up the way I do now I know and I know I could put a bunch of dials that tell me Amperage coming in from one place and another place and blah blah blah But it's just more complication. I don't need This is like this is a great setup plus If my battery ever has a problem, I can still run on the solar panels I'm really happy with this battery that's in this boat I'm gonna have to do like a time trial to see how fast I can get to town and back On the battery and then but uh, you know today I started Without a full battery. So I didn't want to do it not starting on a fully charged battery But uh, yeah, I'm really happy with this battery. It works great. It's a 20 24 volt 100 amp hour lithium-iron phosphate battery It's up in the front there made by sock s okay And that company was recommended to me by some sailors actually people in sailboats up here A few people mentioned them to me actually They basically said like if you if you want a battery that That is not going to be a problem get get this get them from this company soft. So And they've had great customer service too Like I've talked with them a few times that always responds I haven't had any problems with the battery and I have to have to like ask for help or anything but uh, you know, just had any questions or whatever and uh Someone from soft actually commented on one of my videos So when I when I put the battery up in the front of my boat There's an aluminium aluminum hinge on the little door Like going into where the battery is And I just wasn't thinking like I just wasn't paying attention Whatever and the hinge goes all the way across like it's a piano hinge like one long hinge Which means when I got it through there and the battery terminals Touched it for a split second. It's short of the battery. It was just for a split second. It's made a little spark And it didn't it didn't cause any problems or anything but it could have like if I had it If it was like stuck against there for a For more than you know, a tenth of a second or something like you could have been a problem Um But someone at at the company at soft saw that and they they commented in the video saying, you know, if your battery Yeah shorts, here's how you uh reset it Like you won't die You just have it'll it'll shut itself down Instead of dying you just have to do this to reset. You know, I answered them. Yeah, I didn't I didn't shorten enough to shut it down. It was okay But yeah, thank you for for the information, you know, that's I mean, they're they're they're on top of those guys cool guys Yeah, so anyway, I would say that I definitely recommend this sock brand the batteries for sure Oh, I know I'm getting to town or I know I know I'm getting close to town now Because I'm starting to get rolling waves Which is From this big opening here So I mostly have you know land beside me, but then there's There's a big opening here And then I get waves from the ocean coming in On what snacks did I bring today? Well, I put four bananas in my in my bag up here And I've eaten two of them so far I've got a gallon of water. I won't need a gallon of water. I mean, it's almost full still And I'm almost to town But you know, you never know what's gonna happen. You don't want to get stuck out in the ocean without water So a gallon is definitely more than I need and then I brought One of these high energy biscuits this is uh Like an emergency food supply thing that I got off amazon And uh, well actually I didn't even get it off amazon. I put it on my amazon wish list and someone sent it to me So thank you It comes in this This tin this like steel box. It's kind of a nice steel box actually With a whole bunch of those in it So that's one of the packs. I don't usually eat them because mostly I just leave them. I mean, it's It's got like 25 year shelf life or something. I don't know. It's it's long long long term storage food But you know every once in a while I I want to test one But most most of them are still in the thing Um, and they're just basically like flour and sugar But packaging in a long-term thing. So if there's a food emergency at some point in the future, I have something to eat I kind of want to have like a whole Storage thing of my house in my house of a long-term storage food Okay, so you never know what's gonna happen And then just just not eat it, you know that one I opened because that was the first one I got But uh, yeah, I want to get some more of this emergency food long-term food storage stuff Just to keep just in case Maybe every few years I'll open one and eat it and then get a new one, you know, keep it from keep the keep the supply fresh ish Of course, hopefully I'll be growing all my own food soon. I'm growing more than I was, you know, I've been planting stuff So that's going well Maybe I shouldn't say it's going well. It's going okay I would say when it's going well is when I'm like growing like a lot of food Oh, just in case anyone else is thinking about getting these long-term food storage biscuits I'll give you a taste test They basically taste like Kind of like shortbread cookies Like, you know, kind of crappy shortbread cookies, but basically like shortbread cookies. You're not bad totally edible Um, if you want to know exactly what it is These are there should be some of these in my amazon wishlist, which is down in the link You can look down. It'll be in a green box thing So if anyone else is looking for Long-term emergency food storage I don't know if I'd say I recommend these but they're not bad You know decent I've had this one for about a year still totally edible, so Yeah, maybe I would say I recommend them. I don't know. They're pretty good. I was gonna ask Just in case I forget to ask this later Does anyone know of any good long-term food storage? Things that I might not know about Yeah, I've noticed around on the internet a little bit, but I haven't really done a lot of research on it You know, I know I know you can get like I could just buy a bunch of rice and beans and Mylar bags and stuff So I don't know maybe I'll do that at some point The only thing with that is I gotta make sure no bugs Because like often when I get rice here Please some bugs it because I'll put a whole thing of rice in a in a big pot Let's kill anything in it or tortillas because I was this is one of the reasons I'm going to town right now I was basically out of food. I was down to like flour rice and Which I could use to make burritos and they're pretty good. So I did have a little I did have some like leafy stuff like in my garden and uh You know, I dug up some some yucca, which is like a potato-y thing Like I had a little bit of food growing and stuff. I always have stuff that I could put in like spinachy kind of stuff but uh Yeah, being able to make A decent set of burritos out of dry rice Dry flour and dry beans. That's a good skill to have Uh, I've used that skill a lot like going on adventures in places where I was carrying food in And I was going to be there for two months You know by the time two or three weeks goes by All the fresh food is gone And you know, it really helped if you make some make some make some tasty burritos Because uh, yeah, I've eaten burritos for like a month at a time straight and almost nothing else Although by the end of that I'm just like craving anything like just be a strawberry Anything All right Back to back to going while I'm still going You know, it's too bad I can't do a live on the boat Doing a live on the boat would be great. This would be perfect because I'm just like hanging around I could talk for two hours driving to town Hopefully an hour and a half coming back because on the way to town I wanted to conserve battery and basically Get there fully charged and actually charge the battery some while I'm going But on the way back Yeah, I want to use the battery. I don't know Yeah, I definitely want to drive way faster on the way back Oh crap. I got a pee. I do have a procedure for this. I usually do it before I get this to close the town It doesn't look like anyone's around so I just put one foot on that pontoon and one foot up here and pee right there I stopped the boat though just in case like, you know slip and fall in the water I mean the boat would just not stop so Yeah, I guess I can leave it going this speed I better not fall off Uh in case anyone's wondering about my weird wardrobe at the moment I have a muscle shirt I just have it over my one side to lock that arm from getting sun