Sounds like a brilliant idea actually!

you can do it here (im not sure if youtube will allow to post it as a link, so here it is one time with white space in between ht tp://ww w.revguitar. com/ progress.html ) (www.revguitar.com/progress.html)

Very cool, looks like SeaCharger is well on its way! We'll be checking her progress as she makes it towards New Zealand. Did she circle for a day on leaving Hawaii, before tracking southwest? Maybe getting a satellite fix?

Daily updates, data, FAQ, tracking here > www.seacharger.com/

Hi, thanks for your interest and kind words! I actually thought about a diagonal keel just like you described but it would have been harder to build than the straight up and down keel. I figured if seaweed got stuck on the front of the keel it would eventually get pulled off due to wave action. And a secondary propeller was considered too but in the end I just wanted to keep it simple and cheap. The magnetic coupling is similar to many other radial magnetic couplings that you can find online. Really nothing special about it. Thanks again! Damon

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Thank you! I'm doing great. I have SeaCharger back, in my garage. The motor and rudder servo still work, so it they hadn't been broken off, it might have made it to NZ. Maybe next time...

Somewhere between 5k and 10k...

Hi Bjarne, check out www.seacharger.com for details. SeaCharger made it to within a few hundred miles of NZ before finally dying. It then got picked up by a passing container ship and is now in a museum in NZ. Thanks for your interest!!!

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@@damonmcmillan7629 I don't know dude, this sounds really fish and maybe untrue. A container ship wouldnt even see that tiny solar panel in the ocean let alone "stop" and pick it up. Furthermore, donating it to the local museum as many cargo shipmates do? I call bullshit.

Hi Dan, it lists in a crosswind because the wind gets under the solar panels and pushes the boat over. Also, there are large air pockets in the fairings on the keel. It takes a while for water to leak in and fill those air pockets. The result is that, for several minutes after launch, the keel is more buoyant and therefore less effective than normal. Thus the boat lists more in the few minutes after launch.

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Damon McMillan I am designing a similar boat to test in the mediterranean (I am a 13yo from Italy) to then try to have it cross ‘the pond’ as you americans call it. I am about to buy a creality cr-10, a 30x30x40cm 3d printer, to make 3d printed prototypes for it and maybe actually 3d print the final boat, although for now I am still only designing it because I don’t have the funds. I will send you an email with some questions I have, and hope you can help me out. You are a great inspiration for me. The questions are mainly going to be about what you think of my ideas for it, in particular the sise, the solar panels, but mainly about the gps and satellite. I hope to be able to have succesful tests and prototypes to find spinsorships, get people attention, start a small crowdfunding and present it at the maker faire in rome. For this reason, I am planning to have streaming cameras on it, and although on the seacharger website it says that you opted not to put an fpv camera because transmitting the images would be complicated and expensive, i would be grateful if you could share tips and what you know. I’ll send you an email soon. Cheers, Tiberio from Rome