 Pretty early in the morning right now however The tide is high And I want to take this boat out I had to back out because well, just my parking spot might need to make a new parking spot All right, let's see we got power Let's turn on our fancy little switch All right That's a low speed I'm not gonna I'm not gonna pedal. I'll just let the pedals go Okay, we got a low speed on right now And we're definitely moving nothing spectacular. That's a good low speed though. All right Oh, hi son Let's check second speed Oh, that's a noticeable increase in speed That's kind of nice I'm gonna pedal for a minute to see what that's like. I should be able to do this speed for like two and a half hours Which seems totally insane to me That's that battery. It's only like a 50 pound battery. It will it will go this speed for two and a half hours I don't know. That just seems crazy Is that actually right hand? If someone was mentioning The hull speed i'm gonna be having difficulty with on this boat because it's not that long but Hull speed doesn't apply to boats like this I'm not gonna get into it, but uh, you know, there's calculation people have been doing. It's a really basic Calculation it only takes into into account the length of the boat nothing else It doesn't even make sense. We've got 26.5 volts right now Oh 26.6 It's just showing 20. I don't know 25 Or 26.5 or 0.6 somewhere on that um I just drove about two miles. Maybe it's a little bit extra because I was just kind of Hot dogging around or whatever you want to call it But man this thing this thing is great ah Pedals are working great This everything's working great. Yeah Now I want to put this boat in a in a better spot where it's parked right now I can only get it in and out when the tide is up But I want to make this my main driving boat. So I want to give it a spot that it's That is easier to get it in and out of the water Don't have to figure something out there I originally made this boat like six years ago. Maybe and it's never been complete until right now Because originally there was a Charging issue and the the batteries were old used ones that I frankenstein together So they weren't optimal and I don't know if you um the motor vibrated a lot that I just needed to fix the motor mount anyway This is the first time that like it's actually like Up to specs of what I was originally trying to make And uh, man, it is awesome. Oh, I love this boat I just need to get it a better parking spot Where can I park it? Hmm. That speed controller is awesome. It worked great and The battery was spectacular. Now the real test of the battery will be Like going on a long trip like to town Which I figure in that boat will take an hour and a half So like an hour and a half straight shot And then I'll really see what this battery is made of Supposedly according to the math it should be able to do two and a half hours Straight shot with no charging. I don't think I want to push it That far Even going to town. I'll only want to do that when the sun is out So I'll be getting some energy from the solar panels I don't need to destroy the battery, but if it can get to town with no No problems I'm gonna be pretty psyched about that and then back, of course That's the thing. It's gotta gotta go an hour and a half there an hour and a half back So it'll it'll need some charging anyway. It'll charge some while I'm parked and then also while I'm driving so Yeah, I want to do that trip kind of soon. I want to do a few more test trips Shorter test trips just around here before I go, you know Miles and miles and miles Just in case anything goes wrong. I don't want to be stuck like like 15 miles from home Um, yeah, so far everything is looking really really good