Wailua River cruise on my Solar Electric Sailing Catamaran -SolGato
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2022
- A relaxing Sunday cruise up Wailua River on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Navigating shallow water and exploring rivers until they turn into streams has never been easier now that full electric tilt and trim has been added to SolGato via wired remote control.
I also took this opportunity to retest a modified Torqeedo prop to see how it performed at different trim settings with regard to performance and power load.
At the end of the video, I demonstrate SolGato’s agility using independent forward and reverse thrust of her motors to do a 360 panoramic without losing ground, and highlight the trim and tilt design while demonstrating the integrated kick-up feature which allow the motors to kick up regardless of their trim setting in the event of an object strike.
Fun fact, this River has been in more than a few major motion pictures ranging from Disney’s more recent Jungle Cruise to the other end of the spectrum budget-wise, DinoCrock vrs SuperGator.
Really enjoyed your awesome vessel moving through awesome scenery.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!
Love this rig... gotta get a trailer going and free mine from the garage. This river is the reason I am building her...
Better get to it while there’s still water in the river! Good news about the lack of rain is the lawn grows slower which means more time for boating 😂 What’s your ETA for launching?
@@kauaislash5 Not sure, I gotta build a trailer which I've never done before and I gotta find the metal 1st and the money so maybe another 12 months?
@@DIYKauai Gotcha. A few things, if you’re building homemade you can’t reuse/build on an existing trailer unless it has paperwork. They’ve gotten really strict at DMV. For Cats I like to use the Easy Loader Jet Ski trailers and add cross supports and rollers. For the money, you can’t beat the Harbor Freight steel or aluminum 4’x4’ trailers if you can figure how to get one here. And material-wise, you can’t beat the galvanized 2”X2” square perforated sign posts you can buy new from Roadway Solutions in Lihu’e. Using them to build anything is like an erector set, everything is adjustable and can be bolted together, and they hold up well in our environment being galvanized.
@@kauaislash5 VERY interesting about the roadway solutions metal. The theme of this boat was build once to last forever so was hoping to make an aluminum trailer from scratch. Not even sure if I can get the metal on Oahu... kinda at an impasse... 16' long, 8 foot wide "minicat"...
@@DIYKauai Misspoke on those trailers, meant to say those kits are available from Northern Tool. The Roadway sticks are around $60 for 10’ lengths. I used to pull them out of the dump whenever I could, that was until I discovered RS was the one supplying them to the State and County and will sell to walk-ins. They also have the 6’ long I beams you see that support guard rails.
Judging by how high she sits in the water you could double the number of panels on your cool little cruiser
True, but then I wouldn’t be able to stand on the bow and pilot through river mouths and reef channels. Also nice to have a place to jump off into water and dry off in sun. I may however squeeze another two on and increase the width a bit now that I don’t have to walk the hulls to manually trim the motors. The new 30’ Cat I’m building will have 3kW of BiFacial solar covering 2/3 of the overall length similarly.
Are those torqueedo motors? What size Hobie hulls?
See my other video descriptions for build details
Water looks shallow water hiw nuch draft 16 feet lkng 8 fiit veam no draft
Mostly just the low aspect keel creating draft, so about 4” or so. Can take it all the way up rivers until they turn to streams.