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Fantastic design. The great thing about solar is that the cost curve keeps going down while the output goes up. Lifepo4 batteries are steadily decreasing in cost along with panels. If you’re living in the right place, you can take your home off grid easily today. 👍⚡️☀️🌞

Stopp spearing animals go vegan

damn some people are really out there living life

Why all the shade above the panels? Even a rope shadow can take out a huge amount of power form one panel.

There is a lot of space for mutsch more solar panels dos not juse ! 7 kwp is not so mutch power in cloudy days !

Been there, done that. In 1992 I was in the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. We went for a walk in the bush, and I got some daytime mosquito bites (night mosquitos carry malaria and day mosquitos carry dengue). A couple of days later, we left for the Marquesas, a 800 mile close reach across the trades. By day two I came down with a high fever. We got on the ham radio with the Pacific Maritime net, and they got Dr John from New Zealand on the line. After a couple of questions, he said "you've got dengue, mate. Its really common there". He told us there was no treatment but tylenol and lots of water, NOT any aspirin or ibuprofen. He said it should last about 5 days, then I should get a whole body rash. That's about all I remember for 4 days. Fortunately we had my wife Nurse Katie and Henry on board, because there was no way I could stand a watch. Katie threatened me with an IV if I wasn't drinking, and that worked till one night when I was delirious and thought I was recovered. On day 6 we arrived in Atu Hiva, and I helped set the anchor and went back to bed. The next day my fever broke and I got the rash. I wasn't totally over it for another 2 weeks, and I lost about 15 pounds.

@Adventureman_Dan You should always turn your air vents towards aft when under way, even if they're Dorade vents. Scuppers are drains at the edge of decks. You should also close and dog down most hatches when under way, definitely any that are forward or side facing. Not closing hatches can cause sinking. Rogue waves usually means sudden, tall, breaking waves in the middle of the ocean, not at an inlet, where one could expect waves due to geography.

Congratulations - you are an amazing sailor and champion, all the best with this wonderful project. Inspirational !

What a jockey

"man gets wet on boat...he was ok" would have been a more accurate title for this video.

Well said: look at what works, at what actually gets out here (in an anchorage, living the life). Nice boat and tour!

Have you ever had an anchor get stuck (fouled)? If so did you have trouble freeing it?

Great presentation,guys. Thanks so much for posting this.

How much do you spend per month on this

When you see Dave tell him I did Hi . He sold me his rigging.

There is know way those solar panel are 7,2 kw.

At 52:35 I shorted myself out once, and I mean only once on 2, 8D batteries in parallel so only 12 volts but 2,700 amps in total. My left knee was touching the shaft and my right elbow touched the positive post and MY GOD, I SWEAR THAT I SEEN THE INSIDE OF MY SKULL !!! It was all that I could do to climb out of the engine room. Every time that I think about it now, I get a chuckle out of it but MAN did that hurt.

Takes on breaking waves without even closing hatches and without life jacket on WTF! A cuboc metre of water weighs 1 ton so how were you expecting your clears to not get trashed?

Jesus, let the man talk !

If I were to guess (after reading diane hezig's Dolphin Diars ... recomended) I would say they were going after some sort of food source. They are great bottom feeders and can eccho-locate things that are under the sand. Some sort of self burying shell fish maybe. They really know what they are doing and the "sonar echo locate they have in their bodies is amazing. Pleas reply if you think this might be what you saw ?

Dan the man! Why don't you build one of these? I'm sure there are lots of subscribers like me who would love to help build it and learn how to convert old sailing cats to a modern solar cruising cat. I'm serious, I want to build one in a couple years time, but have time at hand now to help and learn. There's a demasted, hurricane damaged Gunboat 55 out there, diesel engines are toast... bidding starts at 15k...

Now put some hydrofoils down with submerged electric motors, I understand that is much more efficient?

If you got the cash for gas all the power 2 U

I think more accurate statement would be why would women want to do it? But there are exceptions - the hat is off to you!

It's a great idea! But what about fire?

I made my 27 sailboat a solar electric. Kept the sails too though. I used simple trolling motors and used hard frame panels. Very cheap.

Looks very nice 👍

Do you make enough money on youtube to survive out there with food

27:23 respectfully: His rigging appears to be SS which doesn't show its wear to the naked eye; I know first hand from bad experience and parting turnbuckles that had cracks I couldn't see during my spring inspection. The boat was then sailed only on the great lakes too -but kept in Port near a nuclear power plant with a railroad almost directly overhead: The iron rail dust significantly contributed to the SS corrosion and subsequent brittleness/crazing. If your SS rigging is 10 years old and you are looking to do any serious offshore sailing.... REPLACE IT ALL! I Almost lost my mast on silly little Lake Huron in a micro burst because I failed to do a UV dye/fluorescence inspection. If you want my advice as a seasoned sailor who lived aboard 5 years and sailed Davis Strait, crossed the Atlantic.... Go with brass if you are weak at preventative maintenance. Brass/bronze- it will show its wear and give you AMPLE warning before it fails. Replace more often, yes but keep spares and have sound mind and be alive. 🙏

Do you circumnavagate?

Shout out to Drizzt!

Well can the electric motor go more than 1 hour before recharge.

200k buys a ton of diesel..

Ahoy Dan! It was good to see you & the Chickadoo who can do. The saying: "i've put my Heart & Soul into it", seems to apply to her right? There's a little *Dynamo* who built a boat with her longtime squeeze, with both of them recently hauling their boat out & doing needed maintenance on it. Between her & Garrett, they've accomplished a lot, with trials & tribulations handled with aplomb. 🙏🦉

I thought I could but. I can not watch this. Sorry. This boat needs some sails. Sorry. For me. Sails. Wind power. Maybe just a little bit. Yea.

Thank you for keeping an open mind about the unlimited potential of a solar powerful electric catamaran. There is so much misconception and misunderstanding. Similar to an EV and as Dave said you have to change your thinking and slow down with today's battery technology. Heavy boats with high voltage and massive battery banks like Silent Yachts are not the way to go. Light weight and big solar are the future. Silent boating sustainably should be encouraged as not everyone has the abilities or desire to sail, especially as they get older. As you understand this is the future and one that many want to embrace with minimal use of fossil fuels.

Coppercoat is said to do 10 years, there is another antifouling that I found with not really any mention at all that's speedcoat-49 a hydrophobic antifoul said to increase boat performance in speed and reduce water drag.

What a friggin’ drama queen.

My plan is to build a electric cat and use jet drives run buy electric motors.i did spend 10 years working with fibreglass..im looking to connect with people with similar plans

One of the dumbest things I have ever seen? 7k of solar... Wow, what kind of range? 25 miles?!?!? What?!?!?! I like how the panels are mounted. That should be an interesting ride in high winds. With current battery tech, I would NOT want them on a boat..... Thermal run away is real and the quality of batteries can be an issue.. The video mentions DOUBLING battery capicity and getting 50 miles range!!! So, they only get 25 miles range? Wth..... Beyond dumb..

I don't have the time to rebuild a boat. If I wanted one I would just buy one in good condition.

Ridiculous and Stupid in more than one way .

I love your adventures on this Boat… Would it be good for our family, does it get up on the plane with four people in it using a 20 HP engine? Cheers!

doing this again today you would use model3 75kw packs for 11k ea, probably one in each hull for 150kw, which would give you 120 miles range per day. In any direction, which is different to a sail boat. bump the solar up to at least 12k and you can truly cross oceans. for a reasonable price.

Fantastic, Dan. Had to Save this one.

Why spend so much on solar yes I like solar but man the money spent on a old cat and u can't even sail it at night or sail it proper that cat is only good for coastal that's it it don't make sense to me a cat u want solar a lot but it's for off grid living sailing oceans ect.but it's a really expensive live aboard stationary motor cat.

Awesome video! Love the idea. Thank you.

That might be the nicest looking inside of a sailboat.I've seen.I love how it's decorated in all the soft blue lights

at 7k watts they still cant run the engines on low speed.....without being able to do that this is all wasted effort and money