So i thought this fits here, he calls the boat Helios 11 and builds it with very little experience. He docunents the adventure quite well and shares what he learns, and also shares all the plans for the boat for free.
I remember reading about a Finn who spent 5 years, half part calculating, half building a small aeroplane in his apartment. Neighbours were let in on the knowing when he needed them to open their doors to poke a plane part into their apartements to get the thing down from IIRC third floor and out.
He flew it too!
I read it in the early nineties and the thing was maybe from the eighties. He didn’t solder anything but drilled like 30.000 holes and riveted it all together.
Finns are cool.
Someone in the comments said it best, it’s a very cool canal boat but nothing that light would stand-up to open ocean waves.
This specific design maybe not, but similar light plywood-epoxy catamarans based on designs by James Wharram are well regarded and proven open-ocean sailboats.
its ok for coastal mediteranean too. He did use it through canals of northern europe to get down to spain.
That’s actually impressive.
He gets into this in the later videos but he’s living aboard it quite a while now in the Mediterranean.
Meh, do you know the level of tech that spread mankind across the world. Roughly logs. OP is likely fine.
It could work in nice weather in the Mediterranean or some other more calm seas
USA: and I took that personally.
No touching of US boats.
But this touches their drill baby drill with a boat.
This will leave them more confused than after a weekend grinder bender at a GOP conference.
Such a cool project. Now, if only I didn’t live 1000 km from the sea in a small apartment…
Amphibious vehicle it is, then.
You get to have a bicycle and some backyard grown potatoes for fuel.
Frankly waiting for the news story where he gets killed “proving” his concept…
The first warning bell was “rated for cross-atlantic”… “rated” by whom?
Of course then there’s the latter part where he talks about the next one is going to be super amazingly polished autonomous vessel with everything up to and including a sauna from the solar… And of course the sovereign citizen take…
Cool doing a project like this, but it smells of overconfidence in what it currently is and how trivial it will be to get to something much much more…
Leaving a comment so I can watch this later.
maybe star/save your comment or something because i am doing the same. i’m planning on kitting out my camping setup with solar so i can take our ebikes with us and i bet this video has all the info i need (i am pretty sure i have it all figured out except the precise wiring but more knowledge never hurt okay i just thought up an exception to that but you know what i mean) i am not pausing babylon 5 tho
On my version of Boost there are options to see your upvoted etc, and saved posts, but it doesn’t work anymore
It did work. I atarted out saving things here and there and then an update wiped it all out and no longer works. Or it didn’t the last time I tried it
Is that a river boat they started with? That thing looks like it’d crack in two over a strong wave.
No no, he said “rated for atlantic crossing”, so it’s got to be good, right?
Does he say how much it cost him?
No, he only says that it is affordable to a medium sized budget.
My educated guess is that it costs around 25,000€ to build this. The ePropulsion engine and battery you can see in the video is about 10,000€ of that.
He also took 200 days to build and that’s pretty hefty
It does not run forever.
The sound of the water moving and echoing throughout the hull would drive me crazy.
Very cool project though
