 So I was thinking. I know it happens once in a while about this here boat and I recently took it on its first real voyage and couple things happened that I can improve on one is I massively overloaded it like way more weight than I was you know Originally intending to put in the boat, but that's how much stuff was there and I have to presume this is gonna happen again So this is one of the things that would be nice to fix is more buoyant And then the other thing I just haven't addressed it yet, which is that the solar panels are a little bit too low voltage to charge the battery Like directly effectively. I mean it charges the most of the way But it won't charge them all the way and it kind of doesn't slow it bottom line is Higher voltage solar panel would better or something. I mean there's there's various different solutions I Have an idea that will solve both of those things and it's really easy to say and not that easy to do All right, let me just barf it out Cut the boat in half extend it like four or five feet like a meter and a half and put an extra solar panel in the front and The extra solar panel in the front would be one of the glass ones that have which are heavier, but I could just do one and I would put one on that has a high enough voltage to charge the batteries and then they'd use all these four existing solar panels to Direct power the motor and then the one in the front to charge the batteries And then the extra length in the boat would make it more buoyant for more passengers more weight and whatever and The solar panel with the higher voltage to charge the battery. Oh, it's gonna be a big chore if I do that I'm thinking about it though. It really would make the boat pretty awesome So If I cut it, you know right about here Then I could get some sheet something and you know Just match it right to the hull after the spread out and then put the fiberglass and it wouldn't really be that hard to do Just I have to take the whole boat out of the water and kind of dismantle everything to make it light enough to do that The actual doing if it wouldn't be that hard I Think I have to do it And that would basically double the amount of passenger space up here Oh And then this solar panel will come up to here be a really long boat then whatever I Could just slap an extra solar panel on here and it'd come up like tip right up to the front of the boats But that that I don't want to do that I definitely need to add some length and if I add length it's not really gonna add much You know water resistance to the boat movies look at these bottles God, what is this? This is not from us. This is just People of the world stop throwing your bottles in the water seriously Hmm. I guess I haven't cleaned up my boat making mess yet. Oh That would have been so much easier to do at the beginning Of course, I didn't know what I know now at the beginning All right, I'm not doing it today or anything, but I think one of these days coming coming up I'm just gonna yank the boat out of the water Cut it Need to get some fiberglass I'm gonna think about that for a few more days. There may be a better idea Just didn't think of yet All right, I'm gonna go back to working on this car And I'll have more buoyant and longer so I can put an extra solar panel on it and so it can hold a lot more cargo space and have more passengers and Go over here exactly what I'm Looking for I'm gonna have to entertain this notion now. All right, let's think about What if I took the motor these solar panels and all that stuff and put it on this boat? It would have plenty of room and buoyancy to put another extra couple of solar panels No problem and Well, what I was thinking about doing with this boat anyway was Okay, so these are the same Hull shape as my pedal boat my my old pedal boat, which is amazing has been super reliable. We use all the time The pedal boat just has shorter ones, but this this is longer pontoons So I could conceivably let's see I could take the top off here Take the top off here. I can put a pedal station here one there and two on the other side There could be four pedal spots So the reason I was thinking about making this huge pedal boat There's also the reason that I want to have more cargo space or one of the reasons I want to have more cargo space in the Electric solar boat is because I have some more friends here now like some people came down and They're cool and they're staying. They've been here for a few months already And they're they're not leaving. So You know, I designed this I designed this boat When I'd been going on all these solo trips I had no one to go with me, but now I have someone to go with me. I actually have a couple people to go with me so It would be nice to have a little bit more space And this boat wouldn't go to waste or anything for sure I I'd probably just turn it into just a pedal boat if I took all that stuff off or maybe I'd put another motor I don't know. I don't know. It would definitely get get use out of it still But okay, let's just say hypothetically take all the stuff put it on there Put four pedal stations and I'd probably just do like paddle wheels in the middle kind of like on my old Pedal boat because those are so reliable. It's just you know a thing of pedals a stick across and pedals and paddles Attached. There's like hardly anything that can go wrong with it So what would I have to do to do that? Flip the boat over get all these barnacles off. Maybe I don't know who basically Re-everything the bottom of the boat, which really isn't very hard. It's just scrape those off Maybe put some resin on there and re-sand it just make sure it's all smooth on the bottom then You know cut out the pedal stations make the pedals Put a put the roof on here and I already have roof stuff for this boat It's like over there on the island Because this used to be a solar boat Then I would just make this my go-into-town boat and Yeah, I could handle a lot more Lot more cargo and we could all go. You know, I wouldn't even need to flip this over to To get to the bottoms because it's a cataract. I just need to lift up one side Do take care of that side and go lift up the other side and take care of that side There's not much to do basically scrape off the stuff for a bit of sanding Maybe put roll a bit of resin on it