 I want to make these here solar sails This is the rough idea here So this would be hinged at the bottom. It'll have a tee that's really strong So that's the mast and then there'll be a like like a mast sleeve that slides over that and this sleeve will keep the Keep the sail from like twisting So I'll either have a mast sleeve there or I'll make the the sail a little bit thick in the middle bit Let's presume I put the sleeve there Then I need some reinforcement things there to hold this sail out and then this thing attaches on here And this is what steers the sail so it can aim the right direction Now how do I build it? It's not too complicated Excuse my imperial noodle units mixed with my metric everything at the stores in noodle units doesn't matter the way it works out best is if the The front sail and the back sail are the same size Originally, I wanted to make the front one smaller and the back one bigger, but Just the way the solar panels fit in it works out better through the same size so That means the front one Is actually gonna overhang the pivot point a little bit So when it's up, I'll lose a little bit of vision But it should be fine because this is the one that's gonna be up less often anyway, and I'll only put it up When you know, I'm not navigating some difficult areas All right for each sail I'm thinking I should have four cross Spars whatever you're calling reinforcement things Because the sail itself is just gonna be one layer of fiberglass I think so it's not gonna be very rigid So I need to make sure it doesn't flex a lot and wreck the solar panels And to make that well that makes it only a meter between each one of these things So to make that I'm thinking I get a piece of sheet metal which I can get in town and I have a board Like I'll just start with a board like this and then cut a big smile into it and Then the top piece I'll attach on one side of the sheet metal the bottom piece I'll attach on the other side and then I can wax it real nice and Put fiberglass in this whole thing right up here And that'll make one of the one of the sail areas and one of the cross things And then I'll take that piece move it over and just build the next piece like Attached right into the previous one. This should be pretty easy to do So I'll need to buy a piece of sheet metal get some extra wax Bit of fiberglass supplies All right now this piece here that attaches to the the sail part to tilt it I want to make sure it's not in the way so much that these Can't tilt when they're down because I want them. I want to be able to aim these toward the Sun a Fair amount when they're down because that really makes a big difference So it'll have to fold up pretty snug I was kind of thinking about I could do this with the front one Just have it hang down and still use that to tilt them, but the back one There's all this stuff in the way. I might be able to slip it between the box up here See the box up here and the paddle wheel cover have it come right down in there when it's down Have to think about that That might work. No, no because these things are in the way. Those will totally be in the way. Yeah, I don't think I can use those all right, so Pivot it here. I'll have that T that comes back and it's gonna rest in here somehow Maybe lock in somehow and it goes back to about here If I have three panels on there, I think that's a good distance Because I sit up here so that will definitely be good shade Then the panel the panel or the sail will be up a bit from that and curve down and I think Hmm, I guess when when they're down. I don't know It'll be locked into here So I should be able to just reach my hand up and push the the panel the direction needs to go If I have something that easily locks it into place wherever it is Yeah, it'd be good to if I made something like that that I could reach from the chair Then I don't even have to stop pedaling or move to adjust them I'll probably have to get up and go to the front to do the front one because I don't want to make some complicated moving system for the panel Yeah, so with the solar sails if I'm Just aiming them at the Sun. I'm presuming I'll set them somewhere and they'll just be that way for hours So I don't need to like make constant adjustments. It's fine if I have to get up and go do something and go back I'd rather get up and do something have it really secure than have some thing that's you know easier All right, I think I can build the sail and the mast things Before put the putting the steering thing on I can do that after the fact And once I've got this together and that together I can put them into place and then you know Maybe get a better idea of exactly how this should attach Okay, the the mast thing I'm thinking I get a PVC pipe That's I know two inches diameter five centimeters Rapid with fiberglass enough that it is pretty rigid And put a few reinforcements in there Just make sure this is really strong and then have a bigger PVC pipe that slides over it Like if I could find it two and a half inch that'd be great, but they don't have them So I might have to do like a three inch or I don't know I'll figure out something that fits over this and Then this pipe will have to be fiberglass all the way around too because it needs to be really rigid to keep the sails from twisting All right, yeah, I'll build that and that I don't think I need to buy anything for this You can just use leftovers from everything else All right, let's let's get one of these made All right, I need the sheet metal here. I know where to get that and then I need the pipe for the mast and The pipe to go through here So the skinnier I can make this part the less it'll interfere with the wind coming through But I don't want to push it too much Because I'd rather it lose a bit of efficiency than break So yeah, I think I'll stick with a two inch pipe and a three inch pipe that it will be plenty strong The two inches like five centimeters three inches like seven and a half and then I'll have fiberglass wrapped around both of them Yeah All right, they come in 20 foot sections and my sails are gonna be nine foot nine all just under 10 feet so I need one One two inch pipe one three inch pipe and then my piece sheet metal and a bit of fiberglass Okay, and the pipes can be thin wall Because they they're not where the strength is coming from the strength They're just gonna basically be the form for the fiberglass except the the bigger pipe the three inch pipe The it'll have PVC on the inside So that's what we'll wear against the mast on the inside as it as it moves So I definitely want to have the PVC on the inside of that But yeah, it doesn't have to be thick. I've also got a good lead on a motor for this boat I don't want to say too much because you know, it's not it's not being shipped yet But the guy says yeah, we can send you this and that part of the conversation always gets a little weird because I'm always like Okay, yeah great Okay, send it Yes Yeah, that'll be great Send me the free thing now, please Anyway, so I think I have a motor coming. Oh, I'll keep you updated and I love yeah either way. I should have sales soon Presuming I don't screw anything up. So this should be the last trip to town in this boat That is only on pedal power Even just with the sales that'll usually there's a breeze coming back on the way back. Oh It's so nice to take advantage of that sometimes I stand up and pull my arms out and it doesn't do that much But it helps a little Yeah with some sales. I Can almost take this guy with me on the trip. I would be much faster, but I have a few big items I need to pick up. I would kind of overload this. Oh I also have a bunch of wood stacked in here in the shark slicer It was freshly cut so it needs to dry out for a couple weeks When it's ready, I'll put them all in here and fill in the front floor These are just a few temporary boards I might take my wheelbarrow to town to pick up some of those bigger items. Oh the bigger items This huge block of Styrofoam a couple rolls like 50 yard rolls of Heavy-duty cloth to make bags and stuff kind of like Kind of like these rolls of cloth here. I haven't even opened that one yet But you know, this is how I'm always getting new t-shirts and stuff. I buy giant rolls of cloth