 Turbo shot. I'm sorry? Hot alright. Hot please. That'll do it. The turbo shot. Yes. Alright it is project day. What am I kidding? It's always project day here. I'm always having to work on something at the treehouse, but Lunkers TV has brought me something real special. First step to any project day is getting some coffee. So I already did that step. Now I got to go get some more stuff here at the Home Depot where I spend most of my money these days. And no I'm not sponsored by Home Depot. This is the Chobee. The Chobee one in particular. It's like a cheap version of a Hobie kayak. Yesterday we launched the Chobee and it floated for about, well it floated with no one in it. Just fine. So Lunkers TV has challenged me to make this device float with a person on it. So it's gonna be Chobee 2 now. This is Chobee version 2. Buckle up guys. Gonna be a fun one. Okay so we're fueled up and ready to go. If you guys missed the creation of the Chobee one you can go check it out on Lunkers channel. You basically brought some stuff over here. We put it together and we put it in the water and you can see what happens. But it's essentially a challenge to see if you could go to a hardware store, put some materials together and actually make a floatable kayak or a small boat. So the goal today is to make some modifications to the Chobee one to make sure that you're staying on top of the water and catching fish. So I've sketched out the designs for the Chobee 2 and what we're gonna be using is some more 2x4s. We're gonna be using some lighter PVC material. This is a thinner material. We're also gonna be using the spray foam and the goal is to add a little bit of catamaran action off to the side and maybe in the middle we'll add a keel so that there's there's middle buoyancy and then there's balance off to the side. I honestly think once I get done with this the Chobee is gonna be a winner but we'll let reality be the decision maker on that one. I just can't stress how much nicer it is having some claims. I use them for all sorts of projects around the treehouse and not having Rob here to help me on this project having an extra set of hands. This is your extra set of hands right here. A set of these is like 30 bucks. Got them on Amazon. So now we got our back keel attached but I still got to fill it with foam. We got to put the caps on after that. This thing should add some extra buoyancy that's going to help us out a lot. Then we're going to add one to the front and then one off to the side Hawaiian style for a little extra balance. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to pitch and flip out of the Chobee too but you'll definitely be able to stay afloat. One of the main problems with this new PVC that I've got this is a thinner material. This isn't the scheduled 40 or whatever that other one was that's super heavy. I wanted to go with something lighter and this one is much much lighter. Also thinner and more pliable but when I put one of these caps on it's kind of loose around the edges. There's an inner ring inside of here. I don't know if you can see that but if you get it just right it'll kind of lock into that inner ring. What I'm going to do is put some in construction adhesive on the inside of that to fill those gaps kind of like caulking. Could also do use some silicone or something like that if you wanted to and then I'll have these caps with construction glue and put some foam on the outer side. Keep the water from coming in. That's the number one killer when you're trying to catch fish. There's water coming in your vessel. You've got to get this thing in shape. Make it round. Lunkers put a little challenge on me. I'm determined to get this right. Just to go the extra mile here what I'm going to do is take some of this metal bracing material and wrap that around. It's pliable. What would be perfect in the situation is those metal rings that you can just take a flathead screwdriver and tighten up but this is just what Lunker's got from the store so I figured I'd use it. So we got the back kill and the front kill built. Now here comes the fun part. Attaching this catamaran. The keels are easy because it's basically just slapping a 2x4 to it. This is not going to ride in the truck if I stick it two feet out from the kayak so it's got to be detachable. That means we got to go MacGyver mode on this guy. I think the solution here is to build a notch. Build a notch on the top 2x4 and the bottom 2x4. Piece those together like Lincoln logs and I've got an extra attachment that'll be able to lock these in place so you can just take them on and off. This one works I'll be proud of myself. So after a lot of careful work this thing is finally taken shape and it's ready to put this little catamaran off to the side. So in order to mount the catamaran I had to make those notches in the 2x4 so I did that using a Dremel. I used my miter saw to kind of guide the first holes and then use the Dremel to shave that section out. Then I was able to install a cane bolt on top of that so that can be taken out. You can take the whole catamaran off and then put it back in as needed for travel. So now all I gotta do is take this little sealed up pontoon PVC piece and put it on that little detachable unit that I made. After many hours crafting and creating we finally have the Chobe V2. Chobe V2 isn't in a beaut. It's been fun building this thing but now it's time to put it to the test. Now last time me and Lunkers hit the water it floated kind of. We're out on the land today we got one of the ponds right behind us and we're going to put it to the test again with those front and rear stabilizer units our side little catamaran. Pond is covered with moss. That's one of the props we're gonna have to wade through that but after that we got a fishing pole see if we can catch a fish off this thing. That's what it's all about right? I'm gonna buckle up. This is all on you the maiden voyage. No question buckling up. Of the Chobe V2. Okay we've added three support systems. What with a lighter PVC material? Are you recording yourself right now please say you are. Yeah I'm recording over here hey guys. Oh the Chobe dangler over here just really really gives it a. Oh I'm going in. Okay oh my god. Rip my cap off. Rip my cap off. Is that both caps off? Oh no I didn't rip it off the dirt you're a showdown there. Wow this is a good start to the Chobe baby. Oh my gosh. Are you ready? Here you go buddy. Whoa this is a really hot picture you're watching it. Negative buoyancy I'm going down. I can feel it. Somebody tossed me a rod I'm just gonna do it. Stabilize. You stabilize? I can do this. Once I get out of the grass. Just play ball? Yeah. There's a I bought a rod holder. Coming in handy right now. I'm gonna tell you this works look. It just moved right here. The Chobe V2. You think we can put concrete buckets on there? Probably gonna be a no-go bud. Chobe V2. It's going. It's really hydrodynamic. Okay I'm just gonna go down this weed line. Try to look for quality strike. Got it dude. You are the Chobe King. Chobe King baby. He got it. He got a fish up the Chobe. That's what I'm talking about. Topwater popper strike all day. Yeah it just peed on me too. That was a turtle. Was it a turtle? Yeah. Big crappie. It was a big crappie. Big crappie dude. Big I'm not kidding. Big crappie came up figure eight. About a two pound crappie. Smoked it. Last got it. Big crappie. Crappie got it. Doodle in him. I doodled the crappie. That is a Chobe. That's a big one. That's a slab. Come here buddy. Oh can you believe that? Figure eighted him. Ah hooked myself. Look at that. You're behind a tree buddy. There you go. Figure eight crappie. Okay I'm gonna let him go. That was that was really amazing. Oh I just wiped cow poop on my chin. 100%. It looks like it. I can smell it. It's it's crusty out here. I have crusty cow poop on my face. Oh you're recording that. Oh absolutely. I wanted to get that. You guys got to see me catch catch a fish out of a dagum. Three. I definitely caught more than one. Out of this thing right here. How much did you uh dangle into this thing? I'm 100 deep. He went 100 deep. I put in 40 today at the home depot. That was basically what was it was a challenge on your channel to do. Can you do something with 100 bucks? It was 100. It was 100. It didn't completely exactly fail. It floated submersively. So the whole goal was to make this sucker float and it did long enough to catch a fish. Oh how do we know we were about to high five? Chobee. Chobee. Chobee v2. Hit in the market. I cast 2019. Coming at ya. So I was happy to take on that challenge from Luckers to get that baby to float up and I think the Chobee v3 is going to be the deal. So realistically if you guys want to take that same sort of design and make more modifications where it floats a little better, you can do it for about 100 bucks. You just may want to put a limit on it fishing time because you probably won't stay out that long. Hey thanks for stopping by here today guys and if you want to see me build some more stuff let me know in the comments. What else should I build? Don't forget to subscribe right here and hit the ding dong so you get all the notifications and I've got to go. I've got to go wash myself because I've got water and all my medicines. But I hope you're having a blessed day wherever you are guys and catching my nose and I'll see you guys on the next one.