 I'm going to pick up some stuff in the tiger shark slicer and last time I did this trip to pick up stuff I picked up some big batteries these batteries here yeah these suckers down here I've got one there and then one behind that little compartment there and I was hoping that when I got these batteries I would be able to put them on this boat and do the trip as fast in this boat as I did in a much smaller boat so in the smaller boat I got there in three hours and 20 minutes if I recall correctly and right now about 11 minutes into this trip maybe 12 by now I have a little stopwatch up there and I guess I'll see how it goes the nice thing about having the batteries is that I can run full speed the whole way there this is a cargo boat it doesn't go fast but hopefully faster than my last trip so the time to beat is three hours and 20 minutes boat is so much more useful than the smaller boat is this boat can hold about five times as much cargo and sometimes I need to carry a lot of stuff I'm going to pick up some packages today not sure how much but with it with this big a boat I don't have to worry about it whatever it is I'm sure it'll fit got some waves one of the many cool features about this boat is that I can sit up on the roof I can still reach the steering column so I can sit up here and steer just have to make sure my shadows not blocking the solar panel I've got the panels tipped up to face the Sun because Sun is off in that direction over there I'm past halfway now I'm not sure how much past halfway I guess I'll find out when I get there right now I'm at an hour and 46 minutes and I kind of want to estimate how much energy I'm using I've been keeping an eye on my charge controller which has kind of a nice readout it's a Renegi adventure I think it's called and the readout keeps blinking between the current battery voltage and a couple things that don't care about like temperature and stuff and then the the number of apps coming in from the solar panels and right now right now it's about 34 amps coming in from the solar panels and my motor uses 50 amps so that leaves 16 amps coming from the batteries and these batteries are 100 amp hour so eight amps and there are two of them so that means eight amps are coming out of each battery which is a piece of cake for those batteries so they they shouldn't feel warm or anything yeah they're not warm at all totally great those batteries have been amazing by the way I drive this boat a lot and really really good and sometimes I'm driving in the dark with no no Sun at all so then I'm sucking 50 amps out of them putting that into the motor and they handle it no problem anyway so let's say for the first hour and a half of my trip yeah I'm gonna definitely pass that but let's say for the first hour and a half of my trip I was probably averaging about 20 amps coming in from the solar panels because earlier in the day the Sun was lower and some clouds and whatever now now the average is higher but I'd estimate a 20 amps coming in so that leaves 30 amps coming from the batteries to the motor for an hour and a half so 30 times one and a half is 45 so 45 amp hours for the first well let's say let's say it's a little bit more than that because it's probably gonna I think halfway is a little more than an hour and a half so let's say 50 amp hours for the first half of the trip going in and these are 100 amp hour batteries and I have two of them so that's a total of 200 amp hours and up I've used 50 that means I used about a quarter on the first quarter of my trip because halfway there is you know a quarter of the total round trip so that's that's pretty good now I don't want to count on the weather conditions remaining the same so and I don't have to so that's nice now I'm getting more energy from the solar panels so I'm not going to use another quarter of my energy getting to town maybe I'll use an eighth which will which means I will have used three eighths of my total leaving five eighths to get home but I'm gonna be parked for a few hours and the batteries will be charging then and hopefully they can get back close to the 200 amp hours total they got 100 amp hours here and 100 amp hours behind this little panel identical batteries and hopefully they'll be close to charge all the way so that if when I'm going home it gets cloudy and stormy or whatever I can still run the motor at the speeds going right now which is about 50 amps the whole way because I should be able to go one one way on this trip relatively comfortably in the dark of course you know I've always got the backup pedals and I've been pedaling mostly the way just because what else am I gonna do just sit around for right now I'm just sitting around but I'll jump back there and pedal some more get some exercise give me give myself a little bit more speed yeah everything's everything's looking good so far I guess I'll see you in another hour and a half hour 40 minutes I don't know who do we have right now hour 51 yeah so I guess to I guess to match my three hours and 20 minutes I've got an hour and a half to go from right now well a minute ago whatever 40 almost exactly alright so 20 minutes slower in this boat I still get off the bottom of this so you can see a little bit down if I get all those particles cleaned off I can probably get this down to 320 maybe even faster either way it's gonna be pretty close yeah nice work man it's pretty good all right I better go pick up all this stuff I hope there's a lot of packages I brought this huge boat and a wheelbarrow seriously half a wheelbarrow of stuff I definitely did not need to bring the big boat I got a problem my little one which goes twice as fast whatever though I needed to test this one anyway all right let's get our butts out of here I did spend kind of a lot of time in town today hanging out with people you know trying to socialize a little more so yeah it's like three o'clock now I'm I'm probably gonna get home just as it's getting dark so it's a good thing I put headlights on the boat should be totally fine all right let's go I just spent two hours fighting the wind and the waves to get to a little little clump of mangroves I could tie up the wind is coming from that direction so it's pretty calm right here but you can see you know just over here the water is moving and if you go a quarter mile out the waves are significant and he's starting to calm down now at least and you see camera doesn't usually pick this stuff up very well yeah over here it's nice and clear that's where he started and then this storm has been moving this way and I was way on the other side of this water here closer to that land over there but the storm started moving that way so I came straight across here and coming straight across here I made no progress toward home but I didn't get hit by lightning so yeah I have you hear that rumbling but that's thunder and now I'm hearing it come from the direction I need to go I'm just gonna I'm just gonna chill out here for a little bit oh I left over two hours ago I'm only like a quarter of the way home and now the question is I'm definitely not getting home before dark do I wait and hope the storm passes and then I can go home in calmer weather in a lot of darkness I do have headlights or do I go now and try to get as much daylight as daylight movement as I can I'm not gonna get any solar power it's too cloudy right now I mean it's really overcast but yeah do I try try going now and try to get most of the way home in the light or just wait till it gets dark I'm gonna wait like 10 or 15 minutes it does seem to be calming down it's a lot less windy than it was of course right where I am I'm totally blocked by these but yeah the waves the waves are looking a lot calmer now I'm not the waves like right here but like way further out I don't see white caps like oh I see a couple but I don't see them like I was seeing before all right let me just wait a bit all right survival check I get some water some snacks a lot of snacks the thing is if I eat anything I'm gonna drink more water so I think I think I won't eat anything because the water is what I'm gonna run out of first now that the bugs there's these little bugs called cheetahs that live in the mangroves there they've noticed them here maybe I'll go swimming nice and calm back here if I eat eaten by a shark someone can find my boat and be like what happened all right we're going for it I hope this isn't bad okay I need to go straight ahead and it looks like this is the trailing into the storm okay so I got clear ish I mean brighter skies over here so long as everything keeps moving this way I should be okay crap where am I going right over right over there I think I'll be alright I make conserve battery power a little go a little slower they just I'm not sure how much I've used now because I was I just spent like two hours driving sideways fighting against the storm okay I think I still have an affinity to get home there's like zero chance I'm gonna get this on camera but over in that part of the storm over there which was ahead of me I kept seeing these really really good lightning strikes I go that I mean like really clear crisp ones first not gonna happen when I have the camera it only happened every few minutes anyway alright oh my gosh there's one right now I'm just kidding okay I'm gonna shut up and start pedaling and help out my motor a little bit man I'm really glad to have these batteries in the boat though funny thing I should mention yesterday was Sunday and normally I do a live every Sunday like a video thing I didn't do one last like yesterday afternoon or evening because I had this kind of sickening feeling about this trip and I guess I maybe should have listened to my my intuition there yeah it would make sense if that was just my whatever brain somehow having a good idea that there was gonna be a terrible storm today yeah like all yesterday evening I felt terrible like really nervous about coming today and I just I kept thinking well that's weird maybe it's just cuz I haven't come in a while or maybe it's cuz it's the first time I'm testing this boat I mean since I changed the route I mean obviously I've done lots of trips in the boat but you know since I upgraded everything and put the batteries in which all kinds of stuff but yeah I couldn't really explain how how anxious I was about the trip based on any of the stuff that was clear but yeah maybe my brain was just like the weather the weather smells it smells like there's gonna be a storm tomorrow Jamie don't go okay let me shut up all right I'm exhausted but I only left my hiding spot there about 10 minutes ago and I've noticed that I've passed the halfway mark so I'm not I'm not as bad off as I was thinking I might be of course I always I always overestimate how bad things are well since I always but I try to over overestimate how bad things are so I can be more prepared than I need to be and then you know it's always a relief when it's not as bad as it as I was estimating but yeah the weather seems to be cooperating now I got bright ish guys ahead the wind has died down significantly the waves are pretty chill and earlier the boat was like I wasn't quite at the point where I was in danger of capsizing however it was crossing my mind like it was I was definitely thinking about the boat going right over sideways and I was I was steering I was just cranking as hard as I could to the side to steer into the waves but the wind kept pushing me so the best I could do was to come at the waves at like a 30 degree angle but it was enough to you know kind of whatever with a catamaran if the waves come head-on it's not that bad if the waves come from the side though it gets really crazy okay hopefully in an hour and a half a little over that hopefully in a little while I'll be home and everything will be good I'm gonna keep pedaling yep my motor is not on full speed I can serve the energy everything looks good alright I actually have a bit of a tailwind right now so I'm giving my legs a bit of a break yeah one point when I was fighting against that storm I had the the motor and the rudder turned all the way trying to make a right turn just to keep myself going straight because the wind was pushing me the other way and I was pedaling like mad just to try to make any progress I could and it's like it's like a perfect metaphor for life you know sometimes things happen where you can make good progress and other times things happen where you can't make any progress you might even be going backwards but if you always keep pushing somewhere eventually you you break through obstacles or circumstances change or whatever and that's how you make progress you keep pushing even even when it's not convenient or easy and then suddenly you get a tailwind and there's a beautiful moon I only have a few more miles to get home