Unboxing my $1,000 ELECTRIC boat from China

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.

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".

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

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A father son memory that will last forever ! Priceless !

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.