 Hi guys, welcome back to the channel. I'm Titus with Mid-Value Mercenaries and today I'm gonna be going over our new ProDrive 1848 with the 40-horse motor on it before we get started in the walkthrough I just want to say thank you to KP for helping us out with the boat getting everything lined up and Picking out all the details that we wanted it with the boat those guys at ProDrive I want to say they're very good at customer service and they definitely take care of you and very friendly staff too So without further ado, let's get started. So first off is the Diamond City trailers trailer It's a aluminum trailer and I've noticed it's very light on the spec sheet. It says it's 500 pounds So it's definitely a lot lighter. I like the lighting on it It's got a couple lights here on each side that light up like an orange light and then what's pretty slick It's also this lights up at night, too But the reason I like that is because at night like if early morning you're loading the boat It actually helps you see what's going on back here when you're backing up to the launch or whatever So also on the wheels in this. It's just kind of a fancier setup. Got the nice rims on this It's just a really good looking trailer and then on the back It's got the quick buckles for the quick release that you can load and unload pretty quick We got the 120 watt LED light on the front and this thing lights it up We also got the mount here and we don't have it on yet But we're just gonna be putting a smaller Min-Cuda 45 pound thrust trolling motor We got the setups for that but here's the plate the mounting bracket and then I like these I know not everybody puts these on but we put on the bow rails on ours and the reason that Myself and Thomas really like these is the fact that like we throw decoys up here And we do Texas rigs like we do you can run it through and then hook it back to itself and keep some on and We've traveled across the country with the decoys sitting right up here or in the boat It's just nice to have something to either hold on to or put your decoys on we went with a NatGear paint and Pro drive actually puts a tan like tan splotches in it But we asked for no tan in it just because we like this color And that's one of the things that I like about pro drive is you can really customize how you want it And they're very easy to work with and they'll do whatever you want. So we went the NatGear We really like this pattern this color This is the timber deck version and we did hydro turf everything and I'll talk about that more in a second But on the timber deck we have the hydro turf and I love a timber deck It just it helps water from coming back and spilling over the boat Like if you're in reverse or if you're stopping suddenly But also it's a place for you to get in or your dog as well like you know If we're hunting out of a blind rocky can come in through the back on the timber deck and they also sell a Dog ramp which I might be buying that later on I don't have it yet But myself and Thomas also went with the rooster lights And we went with the green color and I'll show you some video clips that I got at night So you can see better the coloring and what it looks like we were debating on getting this but we end up getting it because Again early in the morning or at night when you're launching or picking your boat up you can see backing up so much better and we went with the green color because it's just easier on your eyes at night That's a known fact white just I feel like it's a little bit overbearing at night and also you can see your rooster Like that's why the color rooster lights You can see a rooster tail and I like to see that too so I can see where I basically have My trim it fits where I want it to be when it's at night. I don't have to shine a flashlight back there This is the spud pole attachment that we had added on and man Is this something worth its weight in gold my goodness? I would not I don't think I ever want to get a duck boat again without this because if you're hunting anything with Current you can lock yourself down We got one here on the back left corner and the front right corner where you have the two poles Stick them in locks you down So whether you're picking up decoys and current putting decoys out of current Or if you want to hunt in a spot that it's deep and you can't can't hunt out on the ground and standing water You got to hunt out of the boat. You can lock yourself in whether you're in trees or whatever So it's it's an amazing feature. Here's the boat buckles. I was talking about both sides. They're definitely worth having You just release pull it out. I go and you're done. I mean it's that quick and I'm putting back on Look it up Strap strap down. You're good to go. I'm gonna start up real quick and just let you Here per for a second and this motor has Full power reverse and we're excited about that because you get in the I feel like it's kind of like four-wheel drive For a duck boat because if you get yourself wedged in a situation you need to get back out from where you came From you can do this. So let's get her started let you guys here per All right, so things a beast we've already put it to the test like I think we've taken out three times now Love it. I mean just easy to handle. That's the biggest thing about this motor is when you're driving you're sitting set up I mean just so smooth takes hardly no effort to just crank it hard to left or right We're really loving this boat right now. I wanted to show you though. So up here on the control panel It's a twist grip throttle throttle and then you got this yellow button. This is where you throw it in gear So that's actually a neutral push tens neutral Pulled out is forward. It does not have instant reverse But that's okay because we have reverse and I'll tell you about that in a second What I do love about this feature that the Pro Drive has I think it's an incredible idea is The basically their touch button, which is so like say if I have it in neutral and we're picking up decoys I can literally just tap this and it will spin the prop as soon as I let it go it stops So from the neutral position I can tap this button and it will kick the The prop and we'll go forward and I let off so you can just tap it tap it tap it So even in neutral when I'm in neutral I can tap this and it will move forward So it's a momentary Button that helps you like picking up decors or you just want to scoot forward a little bit, okay? You also got your trim from the motor up and down right here under here Where your thumb is that way when you're running and gunning through the trees or down the river wherever you're at You can make on-the-fly adjustments. Okay back here is obviously our kill switch That comes off kill the motor got your fuse also. This is gonna flip this around so I'm gonna trim up So we don't hit the back now watch the the whole prop the blower and I can spin this around Takes about three seconds So now the lower end is spun spun all the way around and we have full power reverse then I would trim Back it's on the trailer right now obviously so I can't go all the way down But you can keep going down with that and if you're in a bad situation, that's how you do it It's really comforting having that feature on the boat That takes what 93 seconds Now when you go in full power reverse you also want to flip this over and lock that down too So we've done it a few times. It's like I said works really great Got your Hobbs meter right here also for your RPM to or if your check engine light ever comes on and then with the handle You can adjust So see how there's a canton this it's kind of off to the side you can loosen this bolt take it out Slide it where it's down in the middle But I find when I'm driving it because you kind of sit out of 45 I kind of find having it out there a little bit is a lot more comfortable and works better because if it was over This way, it just depends on what you like. There's that option also You can lift this up and Back here you can adjust How high you want this handle sit if you want it to sit higher Might be going backwards, but yeah, there you go You can just spin this right back here You can have that sitting higher For whatever you want it down here if you want it up here like if you were standing You can set it to where the handles way up here while you're driving. We got our on-off switch for a battery Always when we're not using it would also keep it off not to drain anything And we got our bilge right here in the back and then our drain plug and everything is right there Got our battery We put a seat on this time and this is they changed this recently But it's a millennium marine very comfortable. Like I said, we kind of run it like sitting like that when we're sitting down I got a 45 very comfortable like just running this boat Like I said easy to use super maneuverable and very comfortable and we have this on a pod And I'll lift it a little bit. You'll see you got room in there to put stuff paperwork Call shells whatever we want to put in there. It's everything will stay dry on this side Is the poles that I was talking to you about they're super tough and strong They're actually called a super stick is the brand that makes them And easy to take on and off And it's out of your way honestly I never think like man these things are in the way or whatever they just stay all the way also I'll show you like if we were to do it Just run up right through this and then you run it into the ground and you can you're gonna get yourself what four feet into the mud or Sand or whatever it is that you're locked down into you. So this is very Feature that we really like on this boat. This is a 48 inch wide boat and some people are probably gonna ask Why did you get a 54 inch box because the way put pro drive makes things? You can unscrew inside and swivel it and screw it down and have a seat that runs across this way So you can either have it this way parallel with the boat or Horizontal the reason we did this is with the 48 if you have it in your gun case your gun won't fit in there We wanted something to have Guns in and you can literally stick probably five guns in there in their cases So we went with the 54 inch box and we never plan on moving this anyways But if we want to take this out for whatever reason There is two points right here of attachment That you could just quick release that you can unscrew to take this box out So it's such a clean design and if you notice here on the floor There's two other points as well So we can put this box in the middle if we want or on the other side we can put it on this side So I love their panel that they have got the 12 volt so you can charge with like the car charger When charge your phone or whatever. We also got two USB ports might be kind of hard to see right now But you can actually see your voltage More so at night because that's when you'll be using all your lights But you can see like 12.6 so you always know how your battery life's doing got your nav lights That's your bilge your spot turns on the front and then your interior lights We went I'll throw in again some clips of it at night. It looks sick And I truly believe you could be driving with this at night with these lights on in here And your spotlight driving to your spot and it not affect your vision at all That's why we went with that green so you could leave these on if you want to The accessory one on this is Our rooster lights and then we have accessory to open to do whatever we want with that So then you got your grab bar and your cup holder for what? Alright, so like I said, we went with the Hydra turf and it's just a clean look It's nice though like in summertime if it's like 105 like it gets out here in California It's really nice because you can still be barefooted in this doesn't get hot at all but also in the wintertime it's quiet if you drop something that doesn't make a lot of noise or It's just you don't slip on it if it was just straight like wet metal or something. So very nice We got two six gallon tanks up in the front and a spot for a trolling motor battery And we just haven't went got it yet But that's already set up and ready to go the reason I do like the two Tanks is say if I got six gallons in this and we want to do some scouting we can run until that tank is bone dry and As long as we say, okay, we're out We can turn around and get no we can get all the way back If you only have one tank you're guessing and I don't like guessing so I like the fact that when we run out on one We can take it quickly sit stick it to the other one and we're good to go again on the front hatches We got storage in here. This is for obviously a seat for fishing these lock on This one to where if you want to put something valuable in there you can lock it So that's kind of underneath that handle but you twist it and there's actually a ton of storage in this one So we got a few things in there right now But anyways, there's plenty of room and it's sealed now that we got that all done and you guys seen everything about this boat If you guys have any questions ask it down in the comments below if I missed something I'm sure there's something I missed or a question that I missed But it's time to get it out and see what this thing does on the water So let's go take it out and check out the footage. We got this running this boat out on the water