100% Solar Boat

Thank you for this. Now i have an idea of the power production needed to run the motor directly without a battery on the system. when I considered this idea in my mind this was the project I envisioned. It was very cool to see it in action. Awesome!

Don't you need a controller between the panels and the motor ? I thought running it like this would burn the motor up ?

you rock amigo!

Man you'll get rich if you can make a quick mount system for those fishing kayaks.

how fast it can go?

Great idea

Join solarsons53 forum and share with the few members there that share ideas and have fun making friends with like minded folks. Search "Serenity Solar Canoe" for my project and there are several others to checkout on the Yahoo forum "Littlesolarboats" see ya there my friend :-)

you sound like earl from "my name is earl". lol.

Well done awesome

Amazing - You should be very proud of it!

Great tinkering, but it doesn't look very stable.  I wouldn't take it out on a windy day.

Can you get electrocuted? I would want my motor to move slow for drift fishing. How much solar power to move just a half mile an hour?

Put battery's it will help in the long run

i made a solar boat as well. glad to see others doing the same but i would recommend batteries as well not just strictly solar. i use a 36v electric outboard and three batteries with 600w being generated from solar. i put lights around the top. great for night fishing.

Great vid and idea.  I would highly highly recommend that you add a battery into the system to help control and mitigate voltage fluctuation. Having an open system like this is not only bad for the motor but he panels as well. For the motor, until its under load and has uptake the extra amperage in the system which is there in the form of higher dc voltage, it is in danger up burning out/ through the copper coils and blowing the motor. The open circuit voltage on those panels is going to be around  22.5V (Voc): Try adding a 12v motor cycle/ lawn mower battery as ballast for the system and you'll be one happy boater and it won't take up hardly any room. Although it would be good to use a new battery you could also use a one that has crapped out. Finally think about adding a charge controller into the system. This will rectify your open voltage into 12v and further protect your system.  They are very cheap, you can grab them at harbor freight or off Amazon. 

my autonomous solar circumnavigation project https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1558453793/100-solar-powered-autonomous-circumnavigation-boat/description

'trying to get some Like Minded types together. I posted a link to this video on the Yahoo Group

had to watch this one again.  I forgot to mention I have a Yahoo Group called LittleSolarBoats
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LittleSolarBoats/info I'm building a Solar Only Canoe and have pics of it there.

hey, Too Darn Cool!

u better hadn`t sell that  idea to any smugglers