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Converting this 1972 Boston Whaler Super Sport 13' to electric for long range solar powered camping missions and stuff like that.

By Pat Riley

[rctestflight]

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[th_St_Air]

Your evolution as an engineer, video editor, and project story teller, from early days of flying planes around your parents yard to electric boat admiral, never fail to amaze me.

[jocax]

Honestly at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the Solar Wings will double as partial ground effect surfaces.

[PeterSripol]

The boat looks fantastic, I wonder if there’s interactions with water turbulence or if the pitch is too high for the current speed of the boat causing a little bit of vibrations. Maybe try adding those small outboard hydrofoil/anti cavitation plates?

[ChrisMisMYhandle]

Your youtube journey has been phenomenal, Daniel. That's a lot of hard work, but great to see you enjoying the fruits of your labour's.

I can only imagine what the typical, "how much range does it have?" Bystander would say about a 3d printed drive train with autopilot.

You crack me up. I love your boat too.

[TheKapicraftPL]

Nice project. Maybe if you are worried about vibrations damaging servo, you could think of some tpu damper between servo horn and linkages, so it isnt stiffly coupled. Looks like it wouldnt affect precision of steering in any measurable way, but could dampen those vibrations.

[somedudethatscool]

Loved that ending! “All in the same boat” is some of the best work featured by Pat Riley on this channel.

[dwdodgelover]

I've been following you since you were flying crappy foam planes out of your parents upstairs window. Your journey continues to amaze me and I can't wait to see how this project evolves. Amazing work sir 🤘

[mskills]

Love your nautical adventures, Daniel! I absolutely love that you get in over your head on projects but always power through -- that boat project looked like a nightmare and you made it happen. I bet it feels good to be in it!

[LITTLEEXPERIMENTCHANNEL]

Them rubber rings are usually impact protection. It's also there for harmonic Ballance on the motor shaft.

[BrandonsGarage]

That rubber piece in the prop is called a hub.
Should you kit a rock, it breaks from the splined shaft to save the lower unit (gear case)
Also, you should crimp the battery cables lug.

[Shoefly]

So glad to see you went this direction. The magic of YouTube for me is watching someone else work through very similar ideas to what I am working on.

I can attest to the resilience of PETG (mine connects the motors to the boat’s helm). It is not underwater, but has been in all the elements over the past three seasons.

[wayne-oo]

Just a tip on set screws on shafts is putting a dimple on the shaft with a drill bit, tighten the set screw and then run another set screw on top of the first ! It’s done in the heavy equipment industry all the time and never fails !!!

[nikkothegoblin]

I'm absolutely in envy of the gorgeous area of Washington you're in and the time/ability to work on so many projects. Thanks for sharing your work with us. I'll live vicariously through these until I can finally move out west

[bowieinc]

I am in awe of your motivation. Thanks also for showing the fails along with the wins. I’ve got six months of a few hours a week working on a large 3D Printed Project. I’ve hit the Meh stage. Your videos are helping to restore my motivation.

[SailingFrolic]

Dude, I’m so impressed with the quality of work and engineering you used to build your boat. It’s unparalleled on YouTube thus far.
I will say, you might want to consider simplifying the mechanisms and linkages to make it easily repairable on the go. I’d also recommend a PWM between your battery and motors as it will reduce the amp draw on your battery over time, since motors generally use higher amps than they convert to power at lower speeds, and the remainder of the energy is converted into thermal energy.
A PWM will mitigate that issue considerably, increasing effective range by about 20%.
The other thing I’d recommend is having a couple small Amazon kayak sails for $20 (the kind that looks like a circle). They only work downwind, but in the event of a motor failure, you’ll have a way to get back to the boat ramp without breaking too much of a sweat. You could also install some dual purpose oar-locks for rowing the boat, or use them to hold fishing poles or GoPro mounts.

You did great in designing redundancy into the systems! Definitely get a waterproof laptop for the next voyages! I was terrified for your Dell watching this video. Especially if you have any important data and calibration software for the boat that might make it unusable without it.
You have to name it!
Name idea: Arr Sea 🌊

[NickWainwrightcreates]

The rubber in the prop is a safety point that can flex if you have a prop strike. Pretty standard on boat props.

[redline]

What an awesome project dude! I can’t believe how fast you model and produce parts for that thing. You say it’s the 3D printing that is the magic behind the rapid prototyping, but I think the magic is how insanely skilled you are at coming up with a design in your head, adapting it to use the parts you have on hand, and then putting it all together into a creative solution. Well done sir! 👏

[markpfeifer]

Love how you have original music in your videos. Its always one of my favorite parts.

[marcelinosanantonio]

next project: Autonomous Airsoft Close In Weapon System or A.A.C.I.W.S. with Airsoft minigun