 Today I just decided to take off So I'm in my boat There's my island. I just backed out of it I've got some snacks a bit of money Swimming mask a knife a bowl And some water And a boat I have no idea where I'm going I'm going somewhere so fast. This is on the lowest speed It just felt pretty good. I'm getting a lot of help from the Sun right now. The Sun is definitely out I wasn't necessarily planning to come to town, but Like halfway here there was a storm behind me So I just came it was kind of nice Having the option to go really fast in the boat when the storm was chasing me So I could get out ahead of it I got a good parking spot right now solar panels are in the sun charging the batteries I'm gonna go see if I can I don't know I don't know something Oh, what do we have here? No sugar added Oh beauty. I'll get a few of those Oh, I'm so sick of like added sugar and peanut butter So I usually just make it myself And I kind of want to get some paint But I think peanut butter is more important right now. I got cloudy, but I still think I got some decent charging there And I think it's time to hop in and go back mostly. I just got peanut butter and some popcorn And ate a bit of food while I was here slow speed right now Doesn't look like I'm gonna get much sun Hopefully it'll clear up a little I'll get more sun We got six peanut butters And some cabbage so I can make chop suey chop suey with the cabbage not the peanut butter I don't know maybe chop suey would be good with peanut butter. I don't know So I'm sitting there being all nervous about how much energy is left in this battery Thinking like oh my gosh it's down to like 10 percent. We're gonna make it back. We're gonna have to paddle I mean I've been paddling but like am I gonna have to just paddle And then I'm looking at my charge controller here And it's telling me the battery's like three quarters full Seriously is it is that telling me the truth? Is that really true? Is this battery like three quarters true? I mean full and I'm just Freaking out about nothing while this battery laughs at me and it's like come on buddy. Give me a real challenge. Come on. Come on. Come on. Bring it on I don't know Still going either way I'm going at low speed If I trust this thing here I could Go significantly faster the rest of the way home and be totally fine But I don't know if I could trust this. I don't know. Yeah, it's like It's like my brain is just like I can't believe there's that much energy still in this battery because I I haven't gotten any sun on the way back and a lot of the way There I was in the dark. I got I got some sun on the way there I did get some charging when I was parked, but honestly it was it was pretty cloudy So I keep thinking I must be running this battery really low And now this thing is telling me it's three quarters full so I'd rather be safe and just Go at this speed, which is still a pretty pretty decent speed. I mean, I'm definitely moving This is the low speed I think I'll just stick with this at least until I get close to home Because I'm still pretty far All right, this thing is telling me I still have 49 percent Of my battery capacity, which I don't think is right. It's got to be lower than that by now Watching the charge controller read out The percentage was going down So I ran it down to 24.3 volts and when I turned off the motor it bounced back up to 24.5 It's been charging since then a little bit because like man, so cloudy. There's hardly any sun But it's back up to 24.8 I wanted to make sure I'd let it recharge a little bit before I left it overnight I want to leave it almost I also Wanted to see what it was like paddling this for a couple miles so Maybe about a mile ago. I started paddling Maybe a little more than that and I have like half a mile left. Well, maybe a mile left. I don't know something like that Last two or three miles and paddling It's going pretty well Not as fast as motoring obviously, but uh, it's a pretty easy boat to move It's not that hard to paddle All right Boats all back. Oh, it's the next day. So Recharging the battery now. I ran it down pretty pretty far yesterday And now I have a pretty good idea Of what the different voltage Voltage readouts mean in terms of the the battery capacity like the battery level um Also On that trip yesterday. I got a bunch of ideas of how to improve The efficiency of the boat Uh, some things that I just noticed while I was driving and just very like a bunch of different stuff Um, I'm not going to sit here and talk about it for 15 minutes. I'm just going to start doing them I'll make videos about them. But yeah, I have a whole bunch of stuff to do to the boat To make it more efficient