 All right ocean, let's see what's going on a little bit of reversing back there That'll work and do of course All right forward. Oh, man So right now this is just on solar panels for solar panels connect directly to the motor when I put the switch This far forward. I mean I can put it all the way forward the batteries don't engage until I turn this Yeah, that's with batteries The man even without the batteries I am definitely getting more speed out of this at lower At lower power levels That is great. I'm sure that's the that's partly a consequence of This motor being designed to work with the stuff down there Plus the bottom end of this is more streamlined than the other one I'll try to put the cover on act as a matter of sunny day. So, yeah that motor is I Think it's outperforming the other one. Let's let's crank up the speed it It also runs quieter smoother. Oh, that's really nice. Oh Wow I am pretty sure this is faster than this boat was going before Partly based on how fast the pedals are ghosting You know whenever I'm not pedaling If the paddles hit the water they start ghosting And that definitely looks faster than they used to be Yeah, I think I think this new motor is an upgrade. Well, I shouldn't say new motor I got this motor from a guy who had it sitting in a shed for like two years And he said he got it from a guy who had it For an undetermined amount of time and it was half thrown over with dirt and garbage and stuff So who knows how old this motor is But uh, I did change the brushes once So it's definitely done a lot of stuff in its life Oh, I'm just gonna shut up and enjoy this. This is great Hey Let me put my feet up and everything so I'm trying to Kind of figure out if this is faster than it was. I think it is a little bit faster If if nothing, it's not any slower and when I look at my Let's see if you can see this I look at my little readouts Before when I would turn my uh my motor on full power It would be you know, the voltage would go down to like 26 and a half it But now it's staying up at 27 which means this motor is using less electricity than the other one So yeah, I think I'm I think I'm getting a little more a little more speed And reduced power and it's lighter and everything's better about this one. All right Since I can steer from the front of the boat just by turning the little steering column here That means I could always come up here. Oh, I love this boat Solar panels looking good a little bit of leaves on them, but Nothing to worry about now the only the only really risky thing with a solar powered boat is If I fall off this boat, it is not stopping Ever I mean it would stop overnight maybe But uh the next day it's just gonna keep going and going although around here it would hit something Go back and do some steering You know, I kind of like having this piece of floor missing because it's an easy spot to climb out when I'm swimming and uh Good for seeing what's down there You know, it's time like It's times like this that I think I must have done something right This is a pretty awesome life That same trip I timed before Took me three hours and 40 minutes to do it before We have to do it again with this motor And I've cleaned off some more barnacles off the boat I should be able to beat 340 now Maybe I can get down to 320 Which is what my other boat did. It's not my fast boat. It's just my other other boat Okay, now that I'm pedaling for real This is definitely faster than it was before Like uh my my legs definitely feel like they're they're having to kind of Try to keep up Oh, that's great. That is a noticeable difference in speed. Oh cool Oh, yeah, that tiger shark totally upgraded Oh god, well that went really well I hope I'm not imagining the speed increase I think there is actually a small speeding It is definitely using less energy than before that I could actually read out on a thing. So, uh I guess I need to do The trip I timed before do the same trip again take the same route and see what my time is and I can see You know if I actually increase the speed So That trip was to go pick up some packages So I think I don't know a couple weeks from now or something There's gonna be more packages to go get so I'll have to time that trip Oh, and I guess I better sweep