 okay I cannot believe that worked. Alright fingers crossed that these things are good. This is almost the exact same motor I have on my bulldozer. Just a little bit smaller. One horsepower. Alright let me cut straight to it. I've built a bunch of boats in the last few years and there's one kind of boat that I've been wanting to build the whole time that I've not been able to for financial technical technological reasons and there's two limitations one is battery weight and the other is solar panel weight because both those things are so heavy and I want to build a lightweight sleek fast solar powered boat dual dual solar powered and human powder I want to put pedals on it too for like long distance trips when I don't need to take like two tons of cargo with me and I just want to go fast so I want to make this thing go like twice as fast as my cargo boat my cargo boats amazing but it's not fast so two things happen recently a friend told me about these lithium iron phosphate batteries that some dude was selling on eBay they're used but they're really good quality and supposedly have most of their life left like like 80 to 90 percent of their life left so even if they have half of their life left it'll still be in the thousands of cycles because those things have thousands of cycles so I bought a few of those and they were way cheaper than brand new and the other thing is I started writing solar panel companies hoping I could get sponsored and get some company to send me some solar panels and then I'd show them and you know give them some advertising so I wrote a bunch of companies and got no answers or you know not good answers but then this one company so be on so be and so be and I don't know how to say the name exactly but they responded very they were just like alright let's send you over to our technical guy we'll figure out what you need and I'm like talking to the technical guy and he's like here we got these amazing solar panels we can send you or we can get you four of those on your boat and I'm thinking am I paying for these or are they sending them to me so at the end he's like okay we'll sponsor you we'll sponsor you with these four solar panels the connectors the whole bunch like cables and stuff like though everything so they're sending that out to me supposedly for free which is amazing because these are high quality ones you in a previous video I I did a review on a like a cheap lightweight solar panel and it melted the first time I used it so I didn't want to use those I need to hire quality ones that aren't gonna melt right away so they're sending those so with those two limitations gone I have lightweight batteries with high power density and lightweight solar panels that are good quality I can make the boat I really want to make so here's here's the design I've got so far first I had two general thoughts one catamaran and one trimaran and I'm gonna go with the trimaran not the catamaran for a couple reasons one the floor of the catamaran has to be above the pontoon so it has to be above the waves so I have to be sitting up higher than I do here the other thing is I want to make it so the boat can get skinny or wider so when I'm out in the open ocean with waves I can have I can have the boat real wide for good stability but then there's all these little rivers and nooks and crannies I want to get into and parking spaces and all kinds of things like things like that mostly rivers where a wide boat just doesn't fit so I want to be able to pull it in skinnier and it's much more complicated to do that with a catamaran because there's a floor in the middle it's just more complicated it's much less complicated to have the main pontoon here doesn't have to change at all and the two side ones out here they can just be on swivelers and swing in you know forward or back and there's not that much pressure on them so they they'll be easier to move and you know if there happens to be a problem with one of these I really only need one to drive as long as I'm leaning and don't tip over on the side where I've lost one not they expect to lose one but so like I could lean over this way or get weight on this side of the boat while I'm shifting this one if I need to the other cool thing about this is as I load the boat I can make it so these can slide up and down so that the side pontoons can raise and lower to accommodate you know different weight in the boat and if I'm driving along and the Sun is on that side and it's getting late in the day and the Sun's getting kind of low I can actually move this pontoon up a little bit then lean the boat toward the Sun you know 10 or 15 degrees which makes a big difference late or early in the day another thing is I want to hide the motor so I want to be inside with the catamaran style I'd have to hide it in one side or the other side and that would you know unbalance the boat this way I'll just put it right in the back kind of like let me draw this a little darker alright so the front of the pontoon pretty self-explanatory the back I'll have a motor here shaft coming down and I'm not gonna rely on a seal over here to keep water from coming up I'm gonna when I build the pontoon when I build the hull I'm gonna build a tube into it that comes right up so water can actually come up the tube up to whatever the water level is so I'll have to make sure the motor I might have to raise this section back here a little bit but I just have to make sure the motor stays above the water line wherever I am and maybe I'll put a seal there too but that way if there's a seal failure it's not a problem I was also wondering if I'd be able to run a tube from that tube down to here to suck out any water because you know it would create suction out here when this is driving it could suck up water but I'll have to play with that and see if that even works then you know hide batteries back there and the rudder back here so why do I want to hide the motor under here oh and I'll I'll make them the propeller removable so I can take the propeller off and pull the motor up to get the the shaft out of the way if I ever want to beach the boat somewhere or put it up somewhere where the bottom is gonna get hit so alright why do I want to hide the motor I want to hide the motor I also want to hide the solar panels because there are a lot of high crime areas around here like people get their boat motors stolen their their solar panels stolen no one's gonna steal my weird electric motors setup but someone might steal the solar panels and if there's no motor they won't know that there's any batteries there to steal or solar panels or anything as long as I put a cover over the solar panels and make it look like it's just a shade anytime I go into you know a bad neighborhood so then I'm gonna sit here and I want to be able to pedal right so my pedal finger and I think I was just thinking about this before I came into this video I think I'm gonna do the same setup here just forward with the pipe coming down so I was thinking about a lot there's a lot of real complicated ways to do it I don't want to make a bunch of complicated stuff I was thinking originally about having a gearing that made the pedals and the motor add into the same shaft so the power of both would go into the same thing but if I have a problem with that shaft anywhere that means I'm dead in the water this way one system can be completely down and the other system will work and I like that redundancy because being able to get home you know in worst-case scenarios is a big consideration and I want the cross section of this middle pontoon to be pretty skinny about as wide as my pedal boat pontoon let me let me show you that so my pedal boat here is like just wide enough to sit in comfortably and pedal I can't pedal when I'm sitting on the dock and I don't want to get any wider than this because I want it to be real sleek going through the water and I might have a lip here that comes out a little bit wider partly to block waves and I just have a little bit wider spot to rest my arms or I don't know to put stuff here in the front there would be a you know a sealed chamber with a door probably here so I can put dry stuff in there but I'll probably fill a lot of it like this whole area with foam and bottles and just flotation material and then back here I think I'll do that in a lot of the spaces maybe all all through here I wanted to be able to float even if there's significant damage now back here where the rudder is I want the boat to come like right to a flat point right here almost almost to a flat point just wide enough that the rudder basically matches it so it's like smooth right into the rudder now I was talking about making the the middle pontoon a little wider I might just yeah just like have a little thing over like this because then waves could come in and hit that and they'll get splashed back down then of course the solar panels will go up here to put me in the shade and it'll be in the whole boat will be nice and low because I can get right down inside the pontoon and I'll probably make it so the solar panels at least some portion of them can move out of the way or something so I can load like sheets of plywood if I need to into the boat I was having this debate in my head which was I don't want this to be a cargo boat but I do want to be able to carry some amount of cargo like a certain number of people or like how much where do I draw that line then I realized I don't really need to draw the line because I thought of something okay my middle pontoon is fixed I'll make sure that can hold me and my kids maybe their mom too we'll see and these normally will just be enough to keep the boat stable but the since they're just attached here and here I can remove these and attach cargo pontoons like if I need to go get something a little bigger but not so big that I need to take the cargo boat this is gonna be the best boat ever okay so back here why am I not having a motor shaft go straight down gear to sideways because of the extra complication the gears like you know that that kind of stuff always is great while it's working perfectly but there's pretty much nothing that can go wrong with a straight shaft and I've also found them to be surprisingly efficient like any efficiency that's lost by the you know the angle of the thing you'd lose that in the gearing anyway this is the boat I was driving before my cargo boat it's been sort of decommissioned I was thinking about just turning this back on but now that I've got the super solar panels and super batteries I'm gonna make a whole new thing but the pontoons will be roughly the same size of these these are 20 23 feet long seven meters roughly and this has been my fastest boat so far I got it up to nine miles an hour with the straight shaft out the back and one and a half horsepower motor the trimer not sure what its name is yet but I'm gonna I'm getting a one horsepower motor for it the same motor that's in my bulldozer but the one of the bulldozer is one and a half horsepower so this is gonna be a one horsepower if I happen to want it to be stronger I might just swap it out with the bulldozer one because I never run the bulldozer full power anyway think that one horsepower plus me pedaling is gonna move that boat pretty fast I'm aiming for over 10 knots so like 12 miles an hour we'll see all right I guess I guess now that I have the the batteries coming the solar panels coming and I ordered a motor to at least in 24 volt DC one horsepower motor I guess I need to make that middle pontoon I could use the mold that I used on that boat I just showed I still have that mold but it's imperfect it's pretty good but I can improve on it so I'm gonna make one even better I wonder if the shark slicer mold can make the shape I'm looking for