 Well, I got about maybe a liter or two of water out of all four spots not each total Now I've got some holes Good thing is now I've got extra storage. I can store things in inside the pontoons. That's excellent All right, I need to cover these with something Extra storage is good because I'm about to drive this pedal boat to town and back and pick up a bunch of stuff I'm gonna go with a friend. So two of us will be pedaling. I Don't think it'll be that hard. Although. This will be the first time my friend has gone on that long of a trip as far as I know With human power You should be fine All right, I have an idea for a whole covers. Let me see if I can find something suitable I found a piece of leftover fiberglass over there And then I was trying to figure out what shape should we see optimal shape to cut out to make these doors And I was like, I'll just cut a stupid circle and do one and see how it goes I forgot my rivet thing. Oh Hit into there a little bit. So hopefully you can kind of lock in Get in there. That's the technique. Oh No, not all up. Oh, yeah, it's all up loosen that up That's all I have to bend it in. I think that works pretty good. I'm not gonna accidentally come out anyway Tomorrow morning. I'm taking this boat with a friend and we're going on a really long trip now One pedal boat side has a long seat for a tall person Which is like the right size for me the other size for a short person now my friends shorter than me But he's a little too tall for this short side. So I need to Lift the seat up a little because that back part slants back So the higher you sit in it the farther back you can go So I'm thinking I could take this two by four and this machine and make a seat Hopefully I can find some more of this And one of these steering extension so I don't have to reach Beside myself. I can just put my hand in a more natural position and steer All right, I think I'm ready to go. Oh, I'm looking forward to this tomorrow morning right nearly We're getting up before the Sun comes up. Oh, I love that Never say that's your girlfriend though because the next morning She's gonna wake you up at 4 30 a.m. And get you to do some horrible thing and she'll say it's because you like it What do you have there yesterday morning at about 6 15 a.m Before the Sun came up my friend and I got in the pedal boat and we pedaled to town We got there at about 10 30 it was like four hours and 15 minutes of pedaling way slower than the zombie chopper But we got there And then we did stuff picked up blocks picked up a lot of blocks And dishinga found some online block deal, whatever we got a whole bunch of blocks And you know bought some food got a bit of other stuff Got back in the boat. We had some unplanned delays in town So we left later than we were hoping we left at uh 4 15 and then we got back here at 8 so after dark Um So that was three hours and 45 minutes on the way back. So we we cut half an hour off our time on the way back And my son Who's seven months old? He didn't see me at all yesterday because I got back. He was already asleep Um, then he saw me this morning He dropped whatever he was doing crawled over and climbed up and he was like attached to me for about an hour and a half Part of that was nap But he was like clinging on so that was like a pretty strong reminder I mean, he's he's only seven months old, but he is definitely noticing If I'm not there or if I'm there. I just yeah, it's a good reminder to Make sure I don't slack off and being an awesome dad um Now the the kids are all playing with blocks Um And on our on our trip, you know, we had like eight hours of peddling. We were talking about stuff I think I think we're not taking any more gasoline boat trips to town You know, I'd get rides with a neighbor sometimes and stuff, but I think I think we've decided We're just gonna go either solar power or human power We're not taking the easy route anymore unless, you know, there's an emergency or Whatever, but generally speaking we're gonna rely on our own on our own power So The zombie chopper works pretty well, but it's not good for two people So I gotta figure something out We're gonna we're gonna take another trip to town Probably I don't know within the next month anyway, so Yeah, I gotta figure something out I should go visit my friend today and see if he can walk I can walk fine, but I'm a little a little bit wobbly Definitely tired legs one idea that came up yesterday was to make fish fin propulsion and The reason that seemed like a kind of a good idea is well one. It's supposed to be really efficient um I don't know see if I I'll have to play with it and see how good I can get it to work But the other thing is it's really easy to make the pedals for that Because you just need like things that are hinged on the bottom and come up and you push on them Then they can have strings that go back and turn the fin thing So if you want to add a set of pedals, it's it's really easy to do as opposed to like with a You know a pedal thing to a gear to a shaft, you know Where you need like a chain drive to another set of pedals or you have to sit side by side and make a whole other pedal thing It's just really easy to add pedals if you have the Something that just you're just pushing and it goes back and forth And I could If I had a fish fin on the back or a fishtail on the back of the zombie chopper I could put another set of pedals up in the front and then we could both pedal So I might have to Just test some stuff out I can do that with the rudder So back here. I've got the rudder and it's got a really strong connection I could pull the pin out of that Make some kind of fish fin with a thing that goes up to some pedals that I can do And I wouldn't want to use it long term without roller bearings, but You know, I could do it for Long enough to to get an idea of how well it'll work Hypothetically, this is very hypothetical at the moment. If that fish fin thing If I got it working well I could take the motor and the batteries and the solar panels off and that would reduce the weight significantly enough that Two people could ride in it and take a bunch of cargo without overloading the boat And we did just make the trip to town in this boat, which is definitely not made for You know optimal efficiency But we got there and back without Without any problems So if we had a boat that could go You know almost twice as fast with the same amount of pedaling That can be kind of awesome We were talking about how to make a boat to go to town and back and one of the things that kept coming up was that Solar power boats work great in the middle of the day But to go to town and back is a long enough trip That you kind of have to go in the morning and then come back in the afternoon You know both times when the the sun is low and then you end up in town not driving During the the most optimal sun time So like human power is is so reliable, you know, it just always works though And then the more you do it obviously the the stronger you get Not that i'm I mean solar power is great for doing everything around here It's just on a really long trip It's uh When it's not a one-way trip when it's like i'm gonna have to do stuff at the destination during the middle part of the day The best part of the day, you know, the solar power is less useful Whoa cool You know, I don't really know what i'm doing here, but once in a while something happens that is very encouraging like this I just got those out of this here banana circle And hopefully one of these tall ones will shoot out another banana thing soon I also got a bunch of plantains I don't know like a week ago So those are going very well. I'm also getting pineapples Dude is so clamped on to me today