The fact that the company can make the boat, make the cage give you a million life jackets and make a profit is mind blowing.

In the US, it would have been impressive to get the 300 screws, metal frame and plywood that made up the packaging for $1000.

Im so glad you were able to forge these memories with your pops. IYou two laughing together made me really miss my dad. ❤

According to the Google camera translation app, the top yellow text is: "Normal Driving". Under that is "Green environmental protection". The bottom text is "Battery Power Indicator". On the right is "Full battery". On the left is "Please Charge".

I bought the same boat. The first thing I did was to adapt a 9.9 Evinrude prop on it. Secondly, I installed a golf cart controller with the foot pedal to control prop speed. It will run about 9-10 mph now...

I think the relationship you have with your Dad is one that every man wishes he had with his. Thank you both for a very enjoyable video

I love the dad and son working together on this, great family fun!

Listening to your poppa and yourself laugh an joke on the water was truly priceless to me. I lost my father 7 years ago. Godspeed my brother!

An approximate translation of the Chinese on the gauge is, as follows: The long white string of characters at the very bottom reads: "Battery charge gauge". Above that, in white: "Eco-friendly" The red characters on the left: "Please charge" The blue/green characters on the right: "Fully charged" The yellow characters at the very top: "Nominal" (These are not literal translations but are what my wife and I arrived at as being most natural - My wife is Chinese and tried to explain the terms she was reading and I provided the more natural English terms)

The biggest surprise for me was the inflatable dock. I was expecting that to sag wherever you stepped on it. It looked surprisingly rigid.

A boat this cheap would feel weird to complaint on anything else than the floating ability. Thanks for sharing your experience!

I've got to say I'd spent that money on a small sailing boat any day, but then again, son-dad time with a project like this is priceless so can't say it's a bad decision in the end really

You are very fortunate. Your Dad appears to love doing anything as long as he is doing it with his son. Priceless!

Hi, Micah. Here's the translation for the Chinese on the gauge: Top line (red, yellow, green): "Normal behavior electricity" so it is a charge indicator, my guess is green is good, yellow not so good, red bad Middle line (white): "Green" Bottom line (white): "Battery indicator" Taking the top two lines together, I'd say they're trying to tell you that lights on the right side of the dial (the "green" side) = proper power from the battery Throttle: Top line = Forward Middle line (with arrows) = Neutral Bottom line = Backwards You likely figured that out already! Hope this helps

love the light hearted tone of this video. and that you were brave enough to buy and test this 'cheap' boat. Well you saved me money on trying same buy. thanks!!!

I’m looking forward to seeing your upgrades! 👍🏻

The gauge is the battery level indicator. The bottom reads "battery level indicator". The center is "green and environment friendly". The green part is "battery full". The yellow is literally "normal drive", which means batter level is fine. The red characters are not clear in the video, but it is safe to guess it says battery low. These boats are used in urban parks in China. They are used on lakes crowded with its own kind and row boats, often operated by kids. So they are not supposed to be any quick. Like someone commented, the hull mold might be old. Actually the hull shape looks very much like those when this type of park boats are equipped with foot pedals twenty years ago. A lot of people are kind surprised that a Chinese company can sell such a boat so cheap yet still making profit. Some people even commented saying slave labor, which is very ridiculous. Most people in the US are just not familiar about how people live in China. I am not a economist knowing a lot of theories, but I came from China in the early two thousand. When the living essentials such as food, clothing, transportation, and house rental are so cheap, the labor cost (salary from the worker's point of view) is also very low, which is in turn, also the reason goods and services are cheap. When you convert the Chinese salary to US dollars, the number may seem outrageously low, but the living cost can also be outrageously low. So seriously, for those people saying slave labor, think hard or even better go and investigate yourself, how can a country become the second biggest economy in the world built on slave labor. So in general, the whole country lives in a different economic scale than the US. That's also the reason everything imported from the US or Europe is luxurious in China, and why China sells more good to the US than buying from the US.

It’s supposed to be a battery gauge. I spent most of my childhood in China and these little boats were everywhere. You can rent a boat like this at your local park for about 10 dollars an hour (and they also have pedal boats for rent at a even lower price). Because the boats can’t go very fast they even let kids to drive them. My favorite childhood memory was going to park and driving boats around with my grandparents. Sometimes my whole family would rent a bigger boat and have for a family picnic. This boat bring me so many memories, and now I want to buy one too 😂

Honestly wish I had a dad like this! My dad died as a kid so never go to experience precious goofy moments with my dad like this

Love his dad’s response! So cute ☺️

I remember these types of boats when I was a child visiting China! They would be dotted across all the major lakes and rivers in major cities, and you could pay a couple of yuan to book them for a few hours. Those were really fun things, practically indestructible and were good childhood memories

The meter is a 'Battery level indicator', red = 'please charge', yellow = 'normal drive', green = 'fully charged'. Enjoy your video man, great work! Also love your relationship with your dad, he is a cool guy!

That was super cool to watch! Thanks for making the video!

So great to see the relationship between you and your dad. The boat is cool, too!

Seems you and your dad have a awesome relationship. I lost mine last year and I really miss him but watching yall together made me feel so peaceful thank you.

This was just lovely. My father died when I was 19. I like to think we could have spent time together like this.

You should do a "Fixing everything thats wrong with my $1000 boat" video.. That would be really fun to watch! Maybe adding solarpanelos, better motor and prop etc. I would love to see that.

I honestly like these videos that are more on other things electric than an all bike play list 😊

This seems like it could be a great foundation for a project boat! Mods that you mentioned, such as upgrading the motor (along with a variable throttle), upgrade the prop and rudder, solar panels, storage... With sufficient battery capacity, you could put lighting on it, such as SUV/off-road lights, and running lights. I'd also look at filling much of the empty voids with buoyant expanding foam, as a safety measure! And the tubular steel cage it comes in, I'd bet it could be used to modify pretty much any basic frame trailer to properly carry the boat!

Double up the batteries and go 48/52volt. Go 3000 watt motor. Solar panel and a better prop. You forgot Life Jackets, be safe.

Cool little boat for an amazing price! I love the walk through in the bow. 👍

So enjoy your purchases!! Thanks for sharing.

That laugh after he said its completely ridiculous was genuine, hes awesome. hope you can upgrade and have fun with your new toy

I would install a longer propeller shafter to put that prop under the surface of the water! Or move the whole motor , shaft and prop to the stern to put the prop under water. Oh, thanks to your Dad. Great Dad to spend time with you.

WOW, That was really cool,thanks for sharing !!😮

Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed the video. Really cool boat. A little slow. But looks like you had a blast. Cool that you had your dad on.

Call it the Solar Duckling, which with the solar power would be a nice name, plus it is a nice little duckling. Solar panels will mean never needing to actually charge it, and you can also use the charge port to connect it to the truck, so that the larger panels can charge the truck at the same time. I would say that the plywood and steel in that frame is actually most of the price, seeing as you now can use it to make a whole lot of smaller projects, like a small shed to shelter the truck under, or a nice table or three in the garage.

Having built an electric boat, I would say you have to get that prop fully under the water. Also try a bigger prop. Torqueedo makes some very nice efficient props. Then try a different controller with speed control.

Good time, good money spent. Little boat, great fun👍

I screen shot the dial on Google translate. It has four words loosely translated, the top says normal behavior,middle says green, right side says full and last in the lower of the dial says battery power indicator. Very interesting and fun watching this, thank you. I vote for Quack Quack, thanks Mom. I hope the low seats don’t fatigue your knees. Be safe and have fun.

I was, perhaps, particularly happy to see that the Coast Guard sent a plane to make sure you guys were okay! :-)

Awesome toy. A Cyclone motor (at 3k watts) might expand the uses. I want to see a race between the boat and the ducks;) Your dad is awesome. Loved his reactions to the boat.

While your maiden voyage was very low key the Field of Dreams vibes between you and your pop were chill! Crazy what 1000 bucks will buy you! 😊❤

The fact that u spend a great day with your father 😍 make everything else worth it

Thanks for taking us on this journey. It's fun to see all this stuff that I didn't even know existed, and yet now I want for myself. Please post more videos of this boat out in open water.

Honestly, I'm most impressed with the dock. I thought that duck was gonna sweep in and capsize you. Your dad's laugh is infectious.

I can't wait to see an update with some improvements.

Looking forward to seeing what you upgrade on it, and how you do it! If the results are good enough, this may be my next big purchase lol

Before upgrade the engine, better to try to add two more set of batteries, the controller supports 24V-48V. It should run faster with 4 sets of batteries and 48V voltage.

If you're thinking of doing a motor swap, I wonder if you'd be better off just mounting a large trolling motor in place of the rudder. This would use the built in steering, allow you to adjust the depth of your motor, give you a better prop and probably be a lot quieter. You'd also get better steering in both forward and reverse. You could sell the motor and speed controller to recover part of the cost or save it for a future project.

Two trolling motors in the rear with two toggle switches both having temporary forward off and temporary reverse would give you total control of the boat. Rented a mini pontoon boat with this set up 25 years ago. Lot of fun

It would be fun to experiment with different pulley sizes to see if you could get a little more power!

I love seeing you and your dad together. I miss my dad so much. Spend time together as much as you can!

The gauge is a 电瓶电量指示 （Battery Level Indicator). Red reads 请充电 （Please Recharge), yellow reads 正常行驶 （Normal Driving/Operation, and the green reads 电量满 （Battery Level Full). I would love to see if that prop can be replaced with something off the shelf, that wasn't made by a 12 year old on his first day doing stick welding. Upgrading the motor and controller sounds great as well, I can't wait to see you tear into that boat and redoing the wiring. Based solely on looks and my previous experiences with Chinese wiring, I suspect the actual gauge of the wire (inside the insulating jacket) is on the higher side, meaning it could be closer to 16AWG instead of 12AWG. So before you upgrade the motor and controller, I suggest taking a close look at the wiring loom and upgrade as necessary.

Great afordable way to enjoy boat life！

Love when your dad cracks up about how ridiculous it is 😂 really cool seeing father and son getting to hang

Loved your video, love the electric setup and the upgrade thoughts from comments here. My hobby is electric planes and jets so I appreciate what you are doing here for the sake of electric (non-fossil fuel) power and the practicality of it. Of course, for the cost of the boat and shipping, you could have had a pretty nice used boat and motor but that would have defeated your goals. Keep up the good work...subscribed!

Such a cute boat!

It's a really nice boat for what you're using it for right now. It's nice for a backyard pond Big pond. Upgrade to motor and you'll be set. Nice little unit.😊

I love to watch these Chinese Imports, equally love watching you & your Dad trying them out together.

On the motor controller there should be a thin blue wire that loops back to the controller with a connector block on it, if you disconnect it this will remove the 750w limit.

Cute little boat. I think if you put rubber grommets on the mounting bolts for the motor it will run much quieter. As for the prop you need a much better one to get any speed from it and with that motor it may not do much. Then get new pulleys and arrange them for better prop speed. That should improve Speed performance and noise. Maybe put some ballast in the bottom of the boat to lower it in the water so as not to have the prop sticking out and causing cavitation witch destroys your prop performance. A bigger Rudder will improve your steering performance quite a bit. From an old sea dog.

So true, *The crate looks fantastic.* You can tell the pride of workmanship just by looking at it. WOW ! The packaging alone is worth a couple hundred bucks !

Lots of fun hearing all that you did to accomplish your journey. Very nice looking boat! You and your father are enjoying each other which is the greatest part of your story. I look forward to following you, I really enjoyed it..

Love your channel man. You’re a great guy and I’m glad you get to experience the fun of building with your family

Very enjoyable vid bro

Oh my goodness... This isn't very lady like to admit this to the world but I actually had to pause this and run to the potty... This old lady was laughing so hard I was afraid I wasn't going to get there 😂. This is the cutest thing I've ever seen! The only thing cuter is going to be having it hooked up to the little truck, parked next to the blow up dock 😂😂😂. I'm actually looking to buy some property and I'm hoping to get a little bit of water like this- now I guess I have to buy a damn Chinese boat for the grandkids. 😳🤣 P. S.- Your dad is absolutely adorable.

Ha ha ! The Pond Barge !!😆 I can’t wait for Micah to explain (demonstrate 😉) how he turns the boat prop from a air fan into a actual submerged propeller 😁 Nice inflatable dock too. Looking forward to boat upgrade videos 👍🏻

Love this, it’s great to see a Dad and son duo playing together ❤

it arrives in a DIY steel framed shed, this is a win win win, just stand the two halves of the box on end and you have a shed for pushbikes and garden tools etc, it needs solar panels on top as you say, run cables down the roof supports and no more plug in charging.

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I was eyeing this boat for myself as well. Thank you for taking one for the team and posting this, now I don’t have to think it anymore! 😝

When you said “looks like a quality propeller” I heard Pops give a laugh giggle 😂

this is freaking awesome.👏

actually seems very practical for a pond or closed lake that does not allow gas powered motors

Please do another videos upgrading the electric motor to something more powerful to see if it will make it worthy of open waters. It’s clearly underpowered and if you do that including a controllable throttle instead of on/off and maybe replace and lower the prop a little, I think it would make it capable of the open waters and rivers! Can’t wait to see the upgraded version!

Yes, your Dad laughing made the video enjoyable. I think your Dad named the boat already. “This is ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’”

Just got mine in yesterday. I'm going to take it from LA to Hawaii this summer!

Cool little boat!! Definitely is worth it. I would get one if I had somewhere to put it. No lakes around me.

Wow! I really enjoyed this video, you and your dad seemed to be having a good time. I would totally love having a beverage and watching the scenery or dropping a line on this little boat. I think if they were imported and sold complete with a trailer people would buy them. As a woman with very basic mechanical knowledge this is really appealing as something I could handle myself. I’d name it the Lucky Duck 😃

It was fun just watching you and your dad enjoying your time together! Priceless. Ty for sharing.

For a cheap pondboat its quite cute. And i see lots of potentials to upgrade it, other stronger engine, and a stereo. Fixing those inner pillar surfaces maybe put some leds there to. 😀👍

You could divide the batteries in half or partition them. Have half charging while the other half is in use. Have a switch or switches so you can select half or full battery range.

Listening to your dad finally laughing is infectious - I was in tears!

Your dad was cracking up laughing at the boat but honestly for $1000 you can NOT complain! Throw a larger prop on or just change the motor, create some storage, and find a way to charge it (most likely solar) and you will have a really cool machine. It's soo bad that you paid double the rice of the boat for shipping. Even if you could get the whole machine with shipping and batteries for under $3000 you have a hell of a machine! Edit. After watching the rest of the video you mention exactly what I said you should do, lol.

HECK OF A DEAL !!

if you come to think, the items you bought is nothing compare to the time you spend with your dad and the laugher together with your friends and neighbours and family on reviewing the items you bought.. great work!

The most impressive thing in this video is the quality and stability of that inflatable dock! Yeah, as others have said you need to get that prop both replaced and located completely underwater, as you are losing so much propulsion and steering control the way it currently is with the prop just cavitating halfway out of the water. With the correct propeller type & location and appropriate gearing, you could easily double if not triple the current speed of that boat (and attain effective steering control), making it safe for river use. And the way that the drive-belt system is set up you can easily alter the gearing by simply swapping-out the drive pulleys for different sized ones to optimize the motor's output to the size & pitch of the new propeller you install. Looking forward to seeing the finished result.

Saw your video for the first time, and I ended up subscribing and giving up a thumbs-up even before the video was over. Your video was fun to watch, and it was great to see you spending time with your dad doing this. I had a smile the hold time I was watching you guys. I lost my dad a few years ago and thought he and I would have had a blast doing this kind of stuff. I think your dad had as much fun as you did. I love techie stuff and gadgets so this was really cool to watch. Hope to see more of your video in the future.

Nice boat 👍👍👍

Hi I enjoy watching your video. It's been 6 months since you've bought this electric boat. Hope you are happy using it. The 4 characters in the middle = Green & Environmental Friendly. 6 characters at the bottom = Battery Current Indicator 4 characters on top = Normal Operation 3 characters on right side = Battery Fully Charged.

Came across his video by accident. So glad I did. It's good to see someone with such happiness and passion about their subject. Once you've upgraded the motor and made the minor adjustments you mention, you'll have a great boat.

This was really informative and fun! Thank you for these well put together videos.👍🙂

That was cool!!

Did I just see a HF mult position sawz all in action? I've got one and it is the Boss. Got a Makita and a DeWalt but that swivel head is a great thing. That inflatable boat dock looks like just the thing for my camp on a 400 acre pond. Put it out while there, pull it into the shed for the winter. This boat is so much fun for the money

Your Dads laugh is worth more than what you spend the boat with. Happy memories 😊.

Another great video and inspiration from one of my favorite channels in the world. TY Micah ! I think what I enjoy largely about your channel is you and your dad working together.

The bow entry having handles is nice!!!!

Still in the beginning but that prop is hilarious 😂😂😂

Its so good seeing a father and son working together