Minnesota hasnt been that cold this winter 😅😅

I grew up in Alaska, anything less than Extratuffs are "town shoes" :-D

I've seen them used as ferries in northern WI!

Sounds cool!

Nice! I should dig the airboat out of the garage and play with it some more, it's a lot of fun.

It's been relatively easy to build, the hard part is finding a little airplane engine that fits on a boat!

@@saveitforparts to make that go faster pal and lose some drag get yourself some upvc pipe cut stright down the middle with grinder then put 2 strips of battening down the length of boat then slide the upvc pipe over the battens it holds itself on and the upvc actually works like an ice skate but because of the round profile of the pipe it allows it to slide left and right aswell making turning easy trust me I make sledges for kids in winter they are like shit of a shovel on them everyone asking can I make them 1 as there's brake with just being those plastic ones enjoy

The 30hp engine is almost too big! On flat water it gets frighteningly fast, even with two people in the boat. When I filmed this it was around 40 degrees and the lake had a few inches of wet sticky snow on top of the ice. I think it would go a lot faster on bare ice or even cold dry snow.

I think it does go faster on ice. I'm also less afraid of spinning out on ice, in water it feels like it could roll over if it starts spinning!

@@saveitforparts you should find a way to make it wider

@@Kyle17206 It's just an old duck boat, I'd probably have to custom-make a hull to get it wider, and that might be heavier than the aluminum hull I have now.

I built it out of aluminum pipe and chicken wire :-P The first one I made was plastic pipe, but I had a little accident and shredded that with exploding propeller 😅

I haven't had it out for a while, it's kind of buried under other stuff in the garage. I need to find time for boating this summer!

@@saveitforparts Please do! I also have to get back to my boat that has been sitting for 2 years now. I bought a simonini mini 2 paramotor with 27 hp for my 18 foot narrow wooden boat that weights around 220 kg. Hope it will be enough to push my boat and cargo up river. What outboard would you compare to, the boat and paramotor setup you build? A 9.9 Hp outboard perhaps?

It's a rudder (piece of plywood) on hinges, with cables attached to it. The cables run through pulleys and up to a lever near my seat. I can push the lever forward or back to turn left and right (Apparently most airboats are steered like this, I guess because it's fairly simple?)

I keep meaning to get the airboat out more often, but it's a little buried in the garage right now.

@@saveitforparts She needs some enclosure!!! a fairing...well, full encloser you can sit inside to keep the wind off ya, would be a cool project! ....coroplast.....

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The back is too heavy for just one wheel, it would probably roll over.

Do you think it would work if it wasn’t too heavy?

@@waldosproject7823 I'm not sure. The engine being up high throws off the balance, it's hard to tell how well it would work.

@@saveitforparts thanks dude. I got the idea while wanting a sailboat set up on land to practice haha a sailboat may not be too heavy maybe the wind will fuck it up

@@waldosproject7823 I've heard of land-based sailing, and ice sailing, and even small railroad cars with sails! If the wind is strong enough I think you can get anything to move.

I never actually did that one! Maybe I can try it this winter, I have a couple minor repairs on the airboat that I've been putting off all year.

i can help you

I believe it's around 28-30hp. The manual is translated from French and not always clear on specs.

In this video the max was about 22mph. Bare ice is faster than sticky snow, I think I got it up to 26 this weekend (video of that soon).

There are a couple lakes up north where they're banned but nothing that I know of in Southern MN.