 Are you trying to tell me that you want to go put some wires on the boat? Yeah All right, let's take some we give you a few more things You need some pliers because they can strip the wires I'm not sure how I'm gonna connect. I need to connect some of these diodes The way one set of wires connects just kind of goes in there and then you tighten this down on the wire It's hard to get it so it doesn't slip out then the other side I've got some Little bolts and nuts They fit on there. I'll figure out how to touch the wire on that side the first. I want to do this side But I just did one of these they took the The washer And I bent it so it's kind of bent over Yeah, I'm gonna see that so it's bent over like that So if I get a wire in there it should hold the wire in and not let it slip off the side So I'm gonna Yes, you know what? Let's just go make let's connect one solar panel. Let's take one of these one of those little diodes This this is a little bad and then one of them. All right. Let's just Okay, so you're saying you want these the thicker wires Not the thinner ones All right, you pick Really? Let's take the thicker ones. Let's look up under here. That's the positive and that's That one. I want to deal with the negative first. So I'll be that one Yeah, what do I do to my hand? Okay, I have that stripped pretty far so I should be able to wrap it around that funny washer I bent and get it locked in there Well, that's pretty good With the washer bent over like that. It holds the wire in doesn't seem like it's coming out at all Good. All right. I have to attach my negative to here and it's gonna go all the way back across the ceiling down to that switch over there and The other thing I need to figure out is how I mount this in a way. It's not gonna move around I'm gonna stick it up in here In here somewhere. Let's get that electrical connection first and I'll figure out the mechanical placement All right, the negatives on this boat will be Because that's what I have in 10 gauge and I decided to go with the 10 gauge not the 12 gauge All right, let's see what the end of these wires are like because it's gonna Define how I connect them because if they're really thin pieces of wire that You know are kind of like hairs Then I can't really bend them, but they're a little bit thicker. That means I can bend them into shapes And they'll stay All right, so maybe Maybe I just wrap them around the screw Twist them and then screw it right onto that thing. It'll be pretty simple Maybe put a bit of Vaseline around there just to keep corrosion off it Looks pretty good I'm about at least five or six percent sure I connected this the right direction if it's connected the right direction If I touch this screw to this it should spark a little And there's not much sun right now Yeah, there's a little spark All right, pretty sure I did that right All right, all right come over See a little spark. Yeah Okay, now I want to mount Somewhere hold this and hold this So that neither wire is bending the connections here So maybe I'll I don't know I'll figure out how to connect them up there All right, if I put a zip tie right here Well, that should all be fine And maybe I'll do another connection back here But right now if I just put a zip tie right there But I don't want to waste a zip tie just on this wire because the positive is going to come through the same spot So let's connect the positive wire and figure out I have some shrink wrap tubing And I'm thinking I stripped this pretty far Stripped the other wire pretty far twist the crap out of them get them really good connected And then shrink wrap over the whole thing All right, my shrink wrap tubing here does not fit over the black part because this is double insulated But it's over the white part good good enough All right, that's twisted together pretty good and then I'm going to take a little piece of stainless steel I'm going to crimp it over the whole thing and just hold it together And I've already got my shrink wrap tubing on there. You always got to put that in before All right, that is a mighty good connection right there This was just a little square of stainless steel like cut off some something And all right, now I need a lighter for about four and a half second and that should be good Heat shrink tubing you just heat it up with a little little lighter and it shrinks. Let's see it's gonna All right now there is a good connection You should go get some zip ties and start connecting it up Well I still need to tuck my wires in and stuff However, I've got four solar panels connected and I just connected Four right to this first thing Because I can definitely switch into four solar panels to the motor Without it being too much of a lurch And I really wish there was some sun right now Mighty overcast because I would love to know if the motor works It's connected. It's got wires It's connected right in and this has enough electricity to make a tiny little spark So I know there's electricity going through there, but Ah, there's There's so little So overcast I'm pretty sure the motor wouldn't work whether it's working or not And it would be really really nice if I could get some sun for Like 10 seconds Just to check if the motor works because it should run on on four solar panels pretty decent speed And if it's not running then I can take it off and take it inside and you know figure out what's wrong with it I just don't want to take it in and take the thing apart unless It's actually not working Which I don't know I also still want to cover up this diode And the one back there and the couple over there and stuff Although they are you know out of the rain. They'll be fine where they are for a while Okay, hopefully this will be enough stuff to deal with whatever I need When I do what I'm about to do oh hold on a second Uh, ha Leatherman Yeah, thanks to whoever sent me this that was great Yeah, I'll take that guy with me too Okay And a machete. I need a machete. Okay You know what maybe I should just take my toolbox. That's what I made it for right? All right, that's already got some stuff in there I got it moving Looks like we're fitting so far All right, I better Uh, it would be nice if we'd get some sun, but whatever let's check if this motor does anything. Oh, it works Nice Hope I can get some a bit of good sun to actually test. This is not the best seat, but I will get seats eventually Let's just mess that up here Definitely use a bit more weight in the boat to get the paddles lower, but it should be able to get somewhere worse Definitely need to to extend my paddles on my paddle fin. I have some space Anyway, I didn't connect the last two Because I felt like it was a little bit silly to connect them into the switch when pretty soon I'm just going to disconnect that and connect them into the Battery charging thing as soon as I get that stuff, which I'll have pretty soon Oh, getting a little bit more sun. Come on. Come on. Come on. Motor should run a decent speed even just on four slowdowns If I can get a break in the clouds Oh, we're getting there some of the barnacles off the bottom of this boat They make it actually a little bit streamlined right now it's just like We're going with the crowd. It's just all chunky down there All right, I'm tied up to something here So I won't blow away Oh, and the sun comes out. We're like right now. Seriously. It doesn't look like it's gonna stay out long enough or whatever. All right I'm gonna jump in the water. I'm gonna try to scrape off this pontoon And then maybe flip the boat around Attach this side to the the mangroves and then do the other side All right And what have I brought to do this? I made this stainless steel scraper a while ago and I guess I'll take my mask All right, I'm going in Oh my gosh, seriously And now we're getting like real sun. Oh come on Oh And only two of the solar panels are even in the sun right now. Oh All right, whatever Hopefully by the time I get some stuff cleared off There'll be some more sun to test this out All right, I'm just gonna shut up and get in the water I'm at this for like like two hours now. I'm starting to go crazy though But uh, as soon as I get there right there Just spend them three quarters done. I just have the other side of this pontoon. There are some pruny fingers So I went out there at like nine or so And it's almost three now Maybe maybe nine thirty to two thirty What's that five hours? Yeah, most of that time I was in the water scraping so I must have been in there for Four hours scraping away Oh, I need a drink just of water and some food. Oh, I got to make a fire and get some food going Cold this is it's not often that I'm cold here, but I'm actually cold Oh, okay Motor works. Oh That's beautiful Barnacles are pretty much off the boat. Oh, so excited about that. I was not looking forward to that job And by the time I was halfway done I was like I better just get this done because I'm not going to want to do it later Um, you know, there's still some religious No, there's still some there are still some residual barnacle You know stuff stuck to the boat, but it's basically smoothed out and I'll I'll get the the leftovers, you know later Ah like it's totally usable at this point. So Yeah, that's all good news good news stuff today um I guess now I just kind of want to warm up and have some food