My DIY R/C Boat Pulled me 20 Miles!!! 

The irony of people yelling “lazy” at him when he spent so long designing and building the tugboat XD

Super clever project

Quick tip to find out really quick (less than a second with a trained eye) if you're on a collision course with a boat. Compare the background (shore) with the boat you want to check. If it goes faster than that boat you will cross first, if the boat goes faster they will gross first. If the background stands still compared to the boat you are on a collision course. Adjust immediatly. With adequate programming and a camera, this could maybe be (part of) the solution for your live boat/ crossing water situation.

Bro this seriously looks like a life-saving piece of equipment. With a few minor modifications this could be designed to be rigged up to lifeboats for at-sea emergencies. It would turn the situation from "hope you get rescued before eating each other" into "be bored and uncomfortable for a few days."

why has no one commented about how amazing the intro song and harmonies were! holy cow that was great

Never thought I'd see my old ship again! That old boat, the "Vulcan" (19:56) that's docked at there Seattle Maritime Academy, was my first duty assignment in the Army! She was originally the "FMS Vulcan" or Floating Machine Shop! A great find!

Been a recreational mariner for 30 plus years and for the life of me I will never understand how disrespectful other jack-wads on the water can be regardless if they are on a wave runner or a yacht. Mindboggling! That is why I live in the hinterlands of Northern Michigan, still cannot escape them here but there certainly is a lot less of them... and the season is much shorter! :(

Timestamps of all the chanties 0:00: GPS will lead the way 10:01: full speed across lake Union 14:41: course set in stone 27:51: draw bridges tilting up 34:32: hulls slicing thru the sea

"rich people trying to flex but their boats cant self direct" - the soundtrack is as entertaining as the content!

I know you probably won't see this, but what a great idea and hope you have lots of fun with future inventions! Good luck! The video was super fun to watch! Thank you.

"we got some...... metal boats" a true master of words. also the Bering Leader is one of a fleet of four fishing vessels in the Northwest/Alaskan region.

Im suprised how many people you actually get to talk to on the waters.

"Are you rctestflight?" "Yeah, I'm about to be run over by a fucking yacht" Comedy gold

Some suggestions, if you decide to update your project: 1. If you can't completely seal your SolarCat Tug hulls, then at least, equip them with a min-bilge pump in each hull to automatically pump any water out. 2. Move your solar panel aft; it looks like it's bow-heavy, especially when encountering waves. 3. Consider using ducted props; not only do they resist fouling from things like seaweed, but they're also more efficient when using them in a low-speed high-thrust application. The ducts might also add to the directional control, like rudders. 4. Oh, yeah, final recommendation, consider a new(er) laptop? Have you considered making a full-size version of your SolarCat Tug, one in which you can actually sit inside, like a solar-powered autonomous boat? It seems like you already have all you'd need, just up-scale it. Great project!

This is so awesome. I remember when you were firs testing your first waypoint missions all within view. You've come so far and can actually get this thing to pull all that weight around. It's amazing I love it

"How is the robotic slave galley doing?" Hahaha

An absolute slapper of intro!

I love how everyone driving Yachts and everything are calling YOU lazy 😂

I don't know which is better - the absolutely well tuned and composed one-man harmonic choir or the FREAKING UNLIMITED RANGE TUG-ANYTHINGlight-BOAT the biggest congratulations for your achievement of 2 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!

DAMN I'm not sure what's more crazy, the fact you managed to complete the mission and spend 8 hours on the water or me watching your 36min video of it and loving every second of it. well done

34:40 "as he passed the nice big yachts, the bikini babes were looking hot, he started to feel like a dork, his confidence did waver" 😂😂😂😂

Hey! I watched this last year and i couldnt find it for my mates. but somehow it came back in the recommended. Just wanted to let you know this is one the best videos ive seen of all time. And ive been here since the start of youtube. Good job man!

Awesome project! Congratulations for such a great successful run. Entertaining vlog, including the vocal harmonies and lyrics. 😎

*Daniel at the grocery store later that day* Stranger: Excuse me sir do you know where the bathroom is? Daniel: Yeah it's solar powered Stranger: *visibly confused* Daniel: It's autonomous

i find it funny how all the people in the massive engine powered boats called you lazy, but all the rowboaters where like, wow neato.

That was an awesome little adventure!!👌🏼 Loved every minute of it.👍🏼

Love it! Your enthusiasm is infectious I am looking forward to the big tug across the pond

This is why rctestflight is the best channel on RU-vid.

The passerby asking "How's the Robotic Slave Galley doing?" made me laugh my ass off. If you were to ever market this as some kind of commercial product, you should definitely make RSG the serial number prefix. It could "officially" stand for something else, but we'd all know the truth.

You deserve an award for the custom theme songs for these videos. Amazing and fun! 👍🏻🙌

Amazing video. Just chilling with you on a boat, why not. Very easy to watch all of it. Good Shanties

Ok, this was a random recommendation on the right margin of my RU-vid page. I wasn't going to watch but then decided to pause and see what it's all about. I am very happy that I did, very interesting and entertaining. Thank you for an excellent video diversion. Solar-powered propulsion? Yes Please!!!! Would love to see that scaled up! Thumbs up! Figuring out an efficient consumption to speed ratio is something the Navy also does :)

5 shanties, love it! The jibe at people calling you lazy was great too!

I like how everyone is happy with him beeing pulled around the place.

My old stomping/working/living grounds..good to see the Duffy electric boats still out and about.

This video: "It's solar powered" "What a cool (insert naval thing)" "This must have not been here when I planned the mission"

"how do you turn?" "yeah it's solar powered!"

That was very cool. I really enjoyed that and I love your 'shanties'! Here in England, I have a good friend from Seattle, so it was nice to see some of it here. Great project and a great video to showcase it!

So inspiring. Thank you for this!!

To me, the most amazing part of this is the fact that your laptop rode on top of that box the whole time without falling in the water.

What a diverse water way Seattle has. There is so much going from heavy industry to small boats and peoples houses and then planes landing and taking off, all with Seattle in the background. Totally, completely beautiful. Seriously dope video man, awesome solar powered robot boat too

what a nice trip man..!! great build too! really enjoyed it

such an interesting look at Seattle small and big boating life. Thanks 🙂

We need all these songs in a playlist, omg! Also nice work!

“Sir, youre choking are you okay?!” rc “yeah its solar powered!”

Now send this thing on a round the world trip, please!

WHAT A VIDEO... loved it, was always looking forward to another shanty

With all that electrical power around you, it was kind of funny to see you inflate the boat with a manual pump :D

Hey man, just wanted to say your sea shantys are awesome. You are both an engineer and artist. Great video :-D

That’s pretty brave of you out on that big water with all that going on. I love the invention. The songs are awesome.

I love that you got all kind of reactions from people

Ya' know, I watch a lot of videos on RU-vid.....but this was undoubted one of the most enjoyable I can remember. Simply put, it was a real pleasure to watch from beginning to end. Thanks so much, Daniel.!!!!

All the people yelling lazy is comedic. Here they are sitting on boats they simply paid to acquire, and you’re being tugged by something you designed, built, and programmed. Whose the lazy one?

So, I just searched for this video to watch it again. This is imo is you best work on RU-vid. Thank you.

this is one of my favorite rctestflight videos ever! i love watching him ride around on his boat for 20+ min :D

"Lazy!" Love the sailboat owner who is motoring himself calling you lazy..does he not see the irony? Lol

As non nativ english speaker I have never heard someone say "good for you" in a non sarcastic way... Amazing project!

All the people on gas/diesel powered crafts calling you lazy is hilarious. This was an amazing project that had no right being as successful as it was on the maiden voyage! Really nicely done. I'm so damn impressed!

Very picturesque journey and nice music! It seems to be a good idea being pulled around on the water by engine with solar panel. May be it's better for safety to take with you something to raw to the bank if the engine fails...

I love how people are calling him lazy while they are chilling in their yachts probably watching RU-vid on their bed

What a journey! You should definitely make a full size boat like Sripol's solar powered Jon boat, but autonomous.

17:52 I bet that guy had no idea his Gatorade bottle would be seen by more than 2 million people.

The guy calling out "LAZY" lol... The alleged lazy person in question: *literally built autonomous tug like a boss*

The fact its totally guided by GPS is allready amazing, but the tour of the shore line of the lake is even fullfilling , love this vid!

Was not expecting to chill on an boat with hot potato for 30 minutes. Thank for the chill vibe video.

Loved the sea shanties... Colin deserves a musical award for those. The solar autonomous tug boat was alright too I guess.

"Lazy", shouts the guy using a sailboat with the sails wrapped up and the engine going...

Who needs a self driving car when you can have a self driving tugboat, that is more than happy to run over swimmers and whatever else gets in its way. Great work. Very entertaining. Somewhat calming as a video actually. Like a background noise of someone's trip while one preps potatoes for dinner.

i cant believe i watched all 35 minutes and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks

Dude, this was epic!!! 8h in the water in an inflatable kayak loaded with electronics, sailing among big boats! Congratulations!

I'm seriously fascinated by your work! Not only the build, but the execution of your goals - you just don't let all of the things that could go wrong stop you from embarking on these journeys! I teach "future engineers" at the local college and I wish they had the "can do" attitude you have exhibited over and over. I want them to realize they can do so much more than they are doing. I want them to experience the nearly 100% probability that every major achievement involves problems and they must have motivation to keep going and then they get to experience, to practice the holy grail of becoming a great engineer: "problem solving!" Be safe out there - keep going - and thank you for sharing your amazing adventures! 🚤👍‼

Just a random passing by. It was an amazing journey. I love how people call you out "lazy" or "getting fat" not knowing how much time R&D gone into this project. It's not like you can buy thing like this and just plug and play it. Amazing work and awesome content. Thank you for filming it.

Awesome vid! Thank you for the personal tour 😁

Outstanding video, loved the tour, keep up the fantastic work.

Bro, did you invent a solar tug boat for a kayak and perform a sea shanty about it? How spectacular.

Ah, so there IS another design / science channel in Seattle. I'm eastside. Nice build brother.

i've wanted to mount motors on the end of crutches for a kyak or canoe for years, but this sure is the glamorous version

Your point-to-point videos are so cool! All the videos are really cool but my fav are the solar autonomous adventures.

The songs really caught me off guard, so amazing, made me smile several times. What an amazing guy!

im not into boats and i never would've thought this 36 minute video of you on this slow journey would keep me entertained the entire time

Great story and brilliant effort. A Hawaiian style three hull outrigger canoe would give tremendous room for solar panels, more stability in the chop and still use your two motor drive system. The inflatable kayak slowed you down.

Nice cruise. Thank you! That's a great idea

36 minutes?? Is it our birthday?? ♥️ Awesome!!! We didn't even knew how much we needed these songs lol I hope we can get them on Spotify This one might be my favorite autonomous vehicle episode. Pretty cool and everyone seemed so nice and interested

I love the idea of seeing you do a solar(autonomous) boat from the scrapyard!

Very cool video, took a ton of work and dedication! Awesome job man :]

A screamin' thumbs up! Stumbled, and fell into awesome today...what a ride! My mini Segway's range is only 10 miles... purist's entertainment analysis gives high marks across the board for production, content, presentation, etc...very sophistimakated, baby! Kudos!

8:26 Wouldn't it be wild if that was AirforceProud95 coming in to land while rctestflight is waving to his fans on shore. 😀

Maybe I'm really wrong here, but those props look a lot like the ones on my Traxxas Spartan. Those might be meant for an Arneson drive which is a half-submerged, high-speed propeller. You probably want a prop like a freight ship or tug boat. Something worth looking into.

What a great video! Fantastic work.

the fact you did one of the coolest things ever, and then also recorded multiple original verses to the Wellerman with full harmonies to describe what we're seeing. just amazing.

As an Aussie who has never been to the US, Seattle looks like a really cool place to live and/or visit. Especially if you do something like this.

That is actually really impressive. It would be interesting to see this scaled up to 3 or even 4 panels.

I LOVE hearing ya go on about all the neat stuff out there. It's the best, lol.

12:11 THAT GUY IS F-HEN AWESOME!!!! . what a sense of humor.... i love it!

19:56 no paddle? You should have some sort of reserve propulsion, if and when the engine dies, those are very crowded water with both air and water traffic. You just can't float there and possible end up in a very perilous situations

This was way more interesting than even I expected. The sailor's ballad was fantastic.

Super fun super satisfying! Nicely done!

Killing it dude. Great job.

28:00 is the best song. So happy I found this channel today.

“My computer is such a piece of crap.” Well, there goes THAT potential ASUS sponsorship….