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Adventureman Dan
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Hi! I'm Daniel, aka Adventureman Dan. I'm just a regular guy with an extraordinary desire for adventure. Since 2014 I've on one adventure after another. Traveling by plane, train, bus, foot, bike, RV, backpacker minivan, or now by my own sailboat "Adventureborne". Join me as I take you around the world and under the ocean. Doing everything from spearfishing, cliff diving, free climbing, sailing, freediving, surfing, kiteboarding, paddleboarding and much much more!
If you have any questions, feel free to check out my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/adventuremandan
If you have any questions, feel free to check out my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/adventuremandan
Electric Catamaran FULL TOUR [44' L X 23' W, 7.2KW of Solar + 32kwh Lithium Battery Bank]
Welcome, to Indigo Lady. This WAS a 2002 44' Voyager sailing catamaran. But then was converted into a fully solar electric powered vessel. With 7,200 watts of solar panels, and a total 32kwh lithium battery bank. This boat has gone just as far as my own sailboat. Proving the functionality of this electric boat as an international cruising dream home/boat.
In this video we tour through the entire boat. Showing you how functional & livable this boat really is. As well, we then sit down with the owners David & Lisa. Together we discuss their life on the boat, and how it all came to be.
Next week I'll post the "How-To" video on the boat. Where David shares all the in depth knowledge about how be made this boat. Till then, if you'd like more info. Check out the google doc below that details all of David's hard work and how he made this incredible boat.
David's Google Doc:
"Indigo Lady Conversion to Solar, my Reflections After Six Years of Cruising."
docs.google.com/document/d/1B0O_CtpT4f1uyZfNY6dZOR-3RHqdHaU4vlC7f__qYfc/edit
If you found this Google Doc helpful, please follow with a thank you email to David: daveonindigolady@gmail.com
00:00 Welcome to Indigo Lady
01:38 Bow Tour
07:16 Solar Bimini Structure
11:13 Transom & Cockpit
18:04 Galley/Kitchen Tour
23:58 Salon & Navigation Station
28:24 Bedrooms/Cabin Tours
34:24 Storage Room
36:04 Utilities Room
39:20 Interview With The Owners!
01:08:04 Hatch Jump Blooper!
01:10:07 Outro
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Help support my adventures & get exclusive/early access:
www.patreon.com/adventuremandan
🤜🏼Gear & Toys I Use:
www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-6a799328?ref=ac_inf_tb_vh
Other Social Medias:
🤜🏼 Facebook: adventuremandan.life/
🤜🏼 Instagram: adventureman_dan
👋🏼New Here?!?👋🏼
Hello & welcome! I'm Daniel aka "Adventureman Dan." I've been living on the edge, from one adventure to another for the past nine years. Starting in Central California with my first GoPro, through to SoCal, Baja, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Alaska and throughout the whole USA. But for the past five years now, I've been on my 37' sailboat "Adventureborne". Which has opened my life up to unlimited possibilities of where I can go, and what I can do!
Tune in every Sunday for new episodes, and join my Patreon community for early access, exclusive content & direct communication.
#tour #solar #catamaran
In this video we tour through the entire boat. Showing you how functional & livable this boat really is. As well, we then sit down with the owners David & Lisa. Together we discuss their life on the boat, and how it all came to be.
Next week I'll post the "How-To" video on the boat. Where David shares all the in depth knowledge about how be made this boat. Till then, if you'd like more info. Check out the google doc below that details all of David's hard work and how he made this incredible boat.
David's Google Doc:
"Indigo Lady Conversion to Solar, my Reflections After Six Years of Cruising."
docs.google.com/document/d/1B0O_CtpT4f1uyZfNY6dZOR-3RHqdHaU4vlC7f__qYfc/edit
If you found this Google Doc helpful, please follow with a thank you email to David: daveonindigolady@gmail.com
00:00 Welcome to Indigo Lady
01:38 Bow Tour
07:16 Solar Bimini Structure
11:13 Transom & Cockpit
18:04 Galley/Kitchen Tour
23:58 Salon & Navigation Station
28:24 Bedrooms/Cabin Tours
34:24 Storage Room
36:04 Utilities Room
39:20 Interview With The Owners!
01:08:04 Hatch Jump Blooper!
01:10:07 Outro
_____________________________________________________________________________
Help support my adventures & get exclusive/early access:
www.patreon.com/adventuremandan
🤜🏼Gear & Toys I Use:
www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-6a799328?ref=ac_inf_tb_vh
Other Social Medias:
🤜🏼 Facebook: adventuremandan.life/
🤜🏼 Instagram: adventureman_dan
👋🏼New Here?!?👋🏼
Hello & welcome! I'm Daniel aka "Adventureman Dan." I've been living on the edge, from one adventure to another for the past nine years. Starting in Central California with my first GoPro, through to SoCal, Baja, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Alaska and throughout the whole USA. But for the past five years now, I've been on my 37' sailboat "Adventureborne". Which has opened my life up to unlimited possibilities of where I can go, and what I can do!
Tune in every Sunday for new episodes, and join my Patreon community for early access, exclusive content & direct communication.
#tour #solar #catamaran
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Cubera snapper are THE apex reef predator fish. They rule the reef, even chasing sharks away when they want. They are powerfully strong, have large thick scales, and big teeth. Yet are very smart and often know to avoid humans. BUT they are VERY tasty. Hands down my favorite reef fish to eat with delicious flakey white meat. Many incorrectly assume a tropical large reef fish like this would hav...
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I Asked ChatGPT 3.5 ↓ ↓ ↓ .....the AI knows!!!
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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.
Hey hey no way! What a small world or big internet. :) Hope your cat is sailing well buddy. :)
There is know way those solar panel are 7,2 kw.
At 15 or so a sq foot which mine make that's about right for a 23 by 23 array
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!
Yesssss! Love that series! How great would it be if they made a well funded show of it! Could be great!
Well can the electric motor go more than 1 hour before recharge.
200k buys a ton of diesel..
Yes, but then you ha e to go get the diesel. This refuels everyday!
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. 🙏🦉
Cheers 🍻
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.
Haha that's "Drama King 🤴" to you keyboard warrior! 😄
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
Outstanding!
Build from scratch or damaged sailing cat?
@@simons780 build from scratch.damaged catamarans are great...when your building a bull that doesn't have to support a massive mask.and sails.i think you could build cheaper then starting from a damaged catamaran
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..
Samsung has just come out with solid state batteries that they say will last 20+ years. Solid state are nonflammable and they hold 2X what those lithium batteries hold too.
It's amazing how you missed the part where it has a 60nm range....... but thanks for the comment I guess. Lol
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!
Yes, but I'd recommend a 20hp. That would be a perfect setup!
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.
THAT is awesome 👌 This is the future!
Fantastic, Dan. Had to Save this one.
Glad you enjoyed it
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.
quite a few solar powered boats have crossed the atlantic. they do sail overnight, that's what the batteries are for.
Today's solar panels and batteries are 2X as good as what they installed 7 years ago. You could go anywhere in the world now.
Awesome video! Love the idea. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
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
My thoughts exactly. Raff & Sash did a great job.
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