The Electric Boat Revolution Is Here

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Today on the podcast, we're going to be

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talking to Alexandra

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Mangiau, who leads the Vision Marine

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Technologies Boating Company, sells

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boats, so sells gas powered boats, also

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electric boats. We're here

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to talk about the new era of electric

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boating. We've talked a

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little bit about electric boating

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earlier this week when we talked about

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sort of the rent to use type

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of boating model. And today,

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we're going to be talking to Alexandra

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about how this new industry

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or you part of the boating

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industry has kind of taken people, you

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know, by surprise, I

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guess, I think a lot of times,

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and where people are like, "Hey, this is

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actually really cool. We're

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really going for this. And this

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is something that we really want." We're

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going to talk about

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electric boating, electric motors,

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how it differs from like, from gas

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powered motors, all on

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Okay, so today we're going to be talking

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to Alexandra Mangiau, which is great

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because he's Canadian, he's from

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Montreal. He has a business where he's

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actually recently expanded the business

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for Vision Marine Technology.

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And his vision of the future is electric

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boating. And I think what we get to talk

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about on today's episode is really

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special because it's a new way of boating

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that actually provides a benefit not only

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to the environment, but also to the

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people who use it. And you're going to

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hear why that's happening in this

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interview. Before we get into that,

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here is the interview with Alexandra

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Mangiau. Enjoy and I'll talk to you

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after. Hey, Alexandra, welcome to the How

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to Protect the Ocean

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podcast. Are you ready to do that?

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I'm ready to talk about electric boats. I

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was born ready, Andrew. So let's start.

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All right. I'm super excited. There's a

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couple of reasons why I'm saying one.

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We're talking about boats over the last

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month or so. I had an itch that I want to

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buy a boat at some point in the next five

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years or so. But also I get to talk about

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electric boats today, which is which is a

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lot of fun. And I get to talk to a fellow

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Canadian fellow Quebecer, which is a lot

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of fun. My family's from Quebec. So it's

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always great to be able to talk to people

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that, you know, we've got some

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some things in common and we love boats

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and we're going to talk all about being

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on the ocean, being on lakes and what

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it's like to have an electric vehicle on

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the water. So I'm super excited for this.

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Before we get into all that, though,

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Alexandra, why don't you just let us know

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who you are and what you do.

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So my name is Alex. CEO and co-founder of

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Visionary Technology. I was born and

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raised in Montreal, Canada, and I'm an

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avid boat racer and an electrician by

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trade. And I've been boating for the past

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30 years and I've been living on the

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water for the past 25 years.

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So I know how cool boat could be. And

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also I was enjoying every second I could.

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So to be on the water when I was living

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in Montreal. So I would say eight weeks

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out of the 52. I was able to go boating.

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But I can tell you crazy stories. I was

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cutting ice to get my boat out on the

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water to test them because

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we got icy water starting.

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I would say November till April. So I

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could not wait. And I was. But we'll

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discuss about that. But that's where I

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am. And I've created along the way an

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electric outboard system that could fit

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almost any boats between 18 to 30 feet

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single motors or twin motors.

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And we've built different types of boat

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for rentals operation a bit like the golf

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cart. They were very popular back then.

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And today we are actually providing a

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technology that could be installed on any

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manufacturer that wants to use an

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outboard motor from the

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20 doors power to 400 hours. So I will be

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pleased to give you more information

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today. Yeah absolutely. I'm super excited

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about this because we've seen the advent

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of the electric vehicle like the electric

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car or an SUV or something on the road.

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That's a hit popularity. No matter what

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people are saying in the mainstream when

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people are like oh forget EVs or forget

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this or forget that. A lot of people are

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buying electric vehicles or hybrid

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vehicles. And we're seeing that sort of

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increase. A couple of years ago, I was working with the

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electric vehicle. I did an interview with

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somebody from a flex Marine who talked

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about electric vehicle electric boats and

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I was like, oh, this is a really cool

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concept. I'm like, I wonder how this all

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works. I haven't seen a lot of talk about

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electric boats before. Especially on the

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ocean. Especially on like larger lakes or

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even like cottage lakes and so forth. So

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I'm super excited to talk about the

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system that you built and how you got

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into that. So I want to talk a little bit

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about your origin story. You mentioned a

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little bit. You've always been involved

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in boats. You've always been involved in boats. It's just a little bit about the nature of the ocean. It's a little bit about the nature of the ocean. It's a little bit about the nature of the ocean. It's a little bit about the nature of the ocean.

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So I want to know what you think about this, the ways that you're working in the industry,
how you started your career and how you started your career in the boats

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and racing and with your electrician

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background. I imagine that is something

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that always interested you. When did you

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start working in the industry? Like, in

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the boating industry.

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Were you always out of

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out of the blue, a small business with

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the co-founder with me,

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my prior partner, Patrick

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Bobby, we started a

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currency traded office.

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So we were trading currency and we were

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ritual fitting and

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importing boats as early as 1980,

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98 and 99 were importing both from US.

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And most of those boats were speed boats

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because they're not, they

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don't build them in Canada.

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So most of those boats were built in

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Florida, started

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importing them smaller and bigger

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and bigger and was pretty good.

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And we learned about the market and we

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also, we were also very

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successful during the crash

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of 2008.

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There were no crash in Canada and we were

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successful by importing that.

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It was a hobby during the

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weekends and we're racing boats.

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And after racing and racing boats, we

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sold the business,

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bought ourself, got two kids

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with our wife and we had started enjoying

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life and racing more.

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And in 2013, after a

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boat race in Toronto,

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Thousand Island, I rent into a gentleman

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named Ian Bruce, Olympic sailor and very

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well-known architect,

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boat designer who actually designed and

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owned laser sailboats.

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He sold over 200,000

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sailboats in 141 countries.

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So I was pulling out from the boat ramp

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with a 46 footer outer limit.

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And I saw Ian Bruce polishing.

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He was probably 75 years old back then or

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70 years old polishing small sailboats.

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And I look at the sailboat and it looked

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like a boat that that we had in storage

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in a building that me and Patrick had

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purchased earlier with tooling.

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So we bought a building and

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they were tooling of boats.

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And long story short, I've parked a big

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raceboats after a boat race and Ian Bruce

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looked at me and

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started talking and asking me

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how much fuel we've burned during the

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race with that big boat and that one at

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over close to 3000 horsepower.

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And I was ashamed to give him the right

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number and I will never give you the

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number of how much it was expensive to

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race one of those boats.

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But that's the place to

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drive at 140, 50 miles per hour.

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It's very competitive.

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And he looked at me, gave me his business

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card and says pass by my office in St.

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Catherine close to the St.

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Lawrence Yacht Club on Monday.

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And I want to show

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you something very cool.

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So I didn't know Ian Bruce was back then.

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So I was excited.

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I went to the fact that it's little shop

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on the next Monday

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with my partner, Patrick.

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And Ian Bruce showed us an amazing

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classic replica of 1947

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Chris Craft back barrel.

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But it was used with

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mahogany and that thing was a lake.

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And you're talking 2000 electric.

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Wow.

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Tesla was actually using Lotus frame.

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So we was in 2008 was

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already building those boats.

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And we took that boat out for a spin and

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the St. Lawrence and run

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about 38, 40 miles per hour.

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And for me, I was driving the weekend

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earlier, 48 hours earlier, I was doing

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driving at 2000 horsepower gas boat.

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It was impossible.

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That guy was a rocket scientist.

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He was very talented, smart, kind,

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generous of his time.

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And he showed us also pictures of boats

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that he was yet design in the past.

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And he says, we own those tooling.

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It's one of in one of our building.

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We've been working on those small

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electric boats, me and Patrick for like

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hobby and the designer of those boats.

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And we still produce today those boats

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because we started

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that business around that.

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It's called the Fandale.

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I think we sold like five

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or 600 of those since 2013.

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From a small, you don't, you never know

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who you're going to meet.

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So Ian Bruce, Ian Bruce started

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negotiating with us, helping asking us if

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we want to take over his production and

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crazy story happened.

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He had an accident with

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the last boat produced.

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It was on the way to do the delivery.

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We helped him out, getting out of that

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situation by fixing the boat with him

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because we use, we have a shop and the

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race boats and we have space and we

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became friends and we ended up purchasing

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the tooling to produce those.

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Bruce 22 and he started building the

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first electric one with us showing us how

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to build it and who were the

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suppliers to get those parts.

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Most of the suppliers

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were car suppliers back then.

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And sadly, half in half of the production

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of the boat, I didn't told us that, but

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he was fighting a cancer.

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He passed away.

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I'm sorry to hear that.

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So we had two, two major last.

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We lost a mentor and we also lost the

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person that was guiding us along the way

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of the assembly of that boat.

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Once it happened a few times in my life,

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we had to complete half

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of the work by ourselves.

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But it's prices because you're learning a

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lot when you're stuck with an I like

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resolving challenge.

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I resolve challenge 10 times a day.

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And I started resolving challenge and the

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boating space with with that first

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project and others

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following following that project.

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And we started working on that and we

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became very passionate.

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Me and Patrick and we said, this is

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pretty, pretty awesome.

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But people, the technology was not there.

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The price of parts were very expensive.

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So we were building smaller golf cart

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type of boat with the

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trolling motor that everyone knows.

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They're very fishing boats as a small 48

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rolling motor that

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the six miles per hour.

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So we're building small

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gondolas and selling them.

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And in 2014, I started doing boat shows

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and I ended up in

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Newport Beach, California.

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And we flew in.

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We shipped two boats for the first boat

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show in California and Newport Beach.

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And I landed at the airport, walked by

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the restaurant at night to have a

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cocktail and a meal.

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And I started seeing

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electric boats couldn't eat.

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I've seen at least that night 100, 150

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boats driving around in Newport Beach.

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And I've learned the next morning because

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we had received our boat

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the morning the next morning.

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And we had to launch the boat to bring

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them to the boat show because the boat,

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the boat was on the

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water in Newport Beach.

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Of course.

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And I've discovered that there were 8000

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electric boats in the

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Newport Beach Harbor back then.

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In 2014?

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Yeah, he's Duffy, the mayor and the

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founder of the Duffy boats was he opened

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that thing in 1967 or 60.

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So this guy was a genius back then.

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He took golf cart motor with Trojan

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batteries and he started

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building and selling boats.

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And everyone or everyone around Newport

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Beach and Huntington Beach

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were the beach boys were.

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And Duffy looked like a beach boy.

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And he started.

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He built over 14,000 of them and he

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changed the rules and regulation in the

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harbors in California.

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So you're limited at six miles per hour.

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So we are in 2015 me and Patrick were

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freaking out because we don't know what

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how to sell those boats from Montreal.

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And we were building 25, 30 boats a year

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shipping them in Italy, UK and one year

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and sending them on eBay.

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And when we came here, wow, this is the

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place we want to be.

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And Patrick told me it's not happening.

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We're too poor to live in California.

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We're too poor to it's impossible to find

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a lease, find a place, become successful.

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You're dreaming.

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Yeah, the worst thing in life

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with me, you say you cannot.

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Don't ever do it.

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You can't.

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Yeah, it's it's fuel.

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So in 17 with so that the boat show left

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it and I saw myself living here and

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having him Newport Beach as we speak

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today and right over 85 over 85,000

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rentals from that location.

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That I did my first boat show.

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So the location where I am, it's the

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location that the boat show is being host

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the day that I came.

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So I fight my way through because if he

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was the mayor, so permit city permits and

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he's the manufacturer and the biggest

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electric boat builder as we

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speak again today in the world.

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So it was challenging.

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So he didn't eat like somebody up and

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coming, you know, having something like a

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competitor essentially coming in.

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It makes it a little difficult to to like

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kind of get get headway, right?

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It was nasty, but oh, really?

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I told you earlier.

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I like I like I like when people say no.

403
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Yeah, this is fuel.

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So love it.

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We've built we scaled up production

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starting to use the rental operation as a

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showroom on the water.

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We started with a personal lease with a

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million dollars in guaranteed in 2016

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where Duffy wanted it to be.

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So we took the spot, the new spot that

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was becoming very

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popular in Newport Beach.

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It's called the Little Village Marina

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took that space, uh, sign up personally

416
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for a million dollar lease.

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Patrick was building boats in Montreal

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shipping them to me and I started renting

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and operating that place in 2017.

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10 boats and we grew up up to 30 boats in

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that location, but it was stuff.

422
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There's one boat ramp.

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It's a city boat ramp.

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So you need the city approval.

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You need to be a citizen.

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And I was Canadian.

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I was a foreign.

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It was challenging.

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It was challenging.

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Yeah, I can imagine while we were

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successful doing that.

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We were also working on the development

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of the technology that became the emotion

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because now we were successful.

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We were small building smaller boats,

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putting them in rentals,

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exposing them on the water.

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People could rent them, test them.

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And if they loved it, they can write a

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check and leave with them.

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So it was like a rent.

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They could they could try it out.

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Get on the boat that you

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have the new technology.

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You're like, okay, let's

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just give this for a spin.

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We'll come on the boat with you to show

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you all the ins and outs.

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And then you're like, oh, I really like

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they basically fall in love with it.

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And then and then you just

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be like, all right, cool.

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Do you want it?

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You could buy it.

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So like they're renting it, but they're

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kind of in the back of their head.

457
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They're looking at

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purchasing a boat as well.

459
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And I'm still using that same technique

460
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today because I'm sold out.

461
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So today, Andrew, his wife once is

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calling one of my salesman.

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I want to buy one of those.

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Can I come to your dealership?

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We're sold out as we speak.

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So I'll make you and your

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family fly to Newport Beach.

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Now we have different

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locations in Florida as well.

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So I would make you fly in.

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You'll test the boat.

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It's free.

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It's on the house for the next two hours.

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And if you're buying the boat, we'll pay

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the travel because you've moved with your

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family.

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So it's been a very nice travel

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experience and you're

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going to be driving that thing.

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And you're going to be seeing about seven

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or eight thousand electric boats around.

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So it's the standard.

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This is where because California is

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between 10 to 15 years ahead of everyone.

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If you should see how

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many electric cars around.

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So you're not crazy.

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If you live upstate New York that you

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want to buy an electric

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boat and you want that

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thing to be delivered to you because you

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see where the market is

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going and all things are.

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This is the future.

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Correct.

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So I'm still using that same technique

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that I start using back then.

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Having a small rental

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operation and using it as a showroom.

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And I was scaling production and the

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cash, the money that

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Patrick and I were making

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were reinvested in developing the high

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power technology with

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the Bruce 22 electric.

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And two years after stop stopping, stop

507
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stopping to race on the with the big

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outer limit boat.

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So in 2015, if I'm right or 16, we

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brought three electric

511
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Bruce to be the official pace

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boat for those gas race boats.

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So when you're racing, you've got a line

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of 15 big powerful boats and you got a

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A

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pays boat that leaves with the flag and

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then it gets away and

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and you need a pretty fast

519
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boat to be the pace.

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Yeah, you're going to need and people

521
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were looking at us because you got

522
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thousands of people looking

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at those races.

524
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So they were looking at us like you but

525
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the attention we got

526
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back then and I felt I felt

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the energy system.

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If they're looking at us and I get more

529
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attention on my 22

530
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foot criss craft replica,

531
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it means that I'm not crazy.

532
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Those guys on million dollars boat and

533
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they know that there's

534
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an I seen the interest.

535
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So from that it was the

536
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push and never raised boats.

537
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I got a lot of friends, throw a

538
00:17:50,333 --> 00:17:51,083
professional world

539
00:17:51,083 --> 00:17:52,416
champion in the boating space.

540
00:17:52,416 --> 00:17:53,416
I'm still friend with them.

541
00:17:53,416 --> 00:17:57,083
I've been racing electric boat now, but

542
00:17:57,083 --> 00:17:59,375
long story short, it's

543
00:17:59,375 --> 00:18:01,333
small boats brought us into

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00:18:01,333 --> 00:18:02,416
the real space of having

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00:18:02,416 --> 00:18:03,375
vision marine technology.

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So back then company was called Canadian

547
00:18:05,666 --> 00:18:08,500
electric boat from the

548
00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:10,708
operation in California in 2019.

549
00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:14,958
I've met some bankers 24th of December.

550
00:18:15,416 --> 00:18:17,041
They came and look at they heard about

551
00:18:17,041 --> 00:18:18,083
the company that we

552
00:18:18,083 --> 00:18:19,166
could probably scale up.

553
00:18:19,166 --> 00:18:20,750
And if I had the funding, I could

554
00:18:20,750 --> 00:18:21,666
probably develop the

555
00:18:21,666 --> 00:18:23,041
emotional board because

556
00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:25,666
you have spent millions of dollars from

557
00:18:25,666 --> 00:18:27,083
the profit we made over the past.

558
00:18:27,333 --> 00:18:29,958
We see from 17 to 2013 to

559
00:18:29,958 --> 00:18:31,958
2018, 19 million Patrick.

560
00:18:31,958 --> 00:18:33,125
Everything was invested.

561
00:18:33,833 --> 00:18:35,291
But now we could add fuel

562
00:18:35,291 --> 00:18:38,291
to bring it to another level.

563
00:18:38,666 --> 00:18:40,750
And the space was getting very hot with

564
00:18:40,750 --> 00:18:42,083
NASDAQ and tech companies.

565
00:18:42,708 --> 00:18:43,750
So those two gentlemen met

566
00:18:43,750 --> 00:18:45,166
me on a Saturday morning.

567
00:18:45,416 --> 00:18:47,375
I think it was December 24th.

568
00:18:47,375 --> 00:18:48,166
Long story short,

569
00:18:48,166 --> 00:18:49,125
they love what they saw.

570
00:18:49,375 --> 00:18:50,500
They were, they never drove any boat.

571
00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:51,458
So I put them on the rental

572
00:18:51,458 --> 00:18:52,750
operation on a small boat.

573
00:18:52,833 --> 00:18:55,625
They never drove a boat of their life and

574
00:18:55,625 --> 00:18:56,791
they were bankers from New York.

575
00:18:57,708 --> 00:18:58,375
They loved it.

576
00:18:58,375 --> 00:18:58,916
It's just wow.

577
00:18:59,166 --> 00:19:01,500
This and I tell imagine driving that

578
00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:02,791
thing at 40, 50 miles per

579
00:19:02,791 --> 00:19:04,125
hour in a space that you

580
00:19:04,125 --> 00:19:05,375
have the right to drive them around

581
00:19:05,375 --> 00:19:06,000
because in Newport

582
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:06,958
Beach, you cannot go fast.

583
00:19:07,125 --> 00:19:08,291
It's limited because stuff.

584
00:19:08,291 --> 00:19:08,500
Yeah.

585
00:19:08,750 --> 00:19:10,625
I put restriction a bit like everywhere

586
00:19:10,625 --> 00:19:11,625
in Florida, as we speak

587
00:19:11,625 --> 00:19:13,125
today, most of the waterways.

588
00:19:13,125 --> 00:19:13,333
Yeah.

589
00:19:13,875 --> 00:19:15,875
Ocean wise, you're good, but but in their

590
00:19:15,875 --> 00:19:17,041
coastal, it's you got to

591
00:19:17,041 --> 00:19:17,875
watch your speed, right?

592
00:19:18,708 --> 00:19:18,916
Correct.

593
00:19:19,416 --> 00:19:22,791
So certain sign a term sheet and we went

594
00:19:22,791 --> 00:19:24,458
public in 2020 and

595
00:19:24,458 --> 00:19:25,916
November did the IPO myself

596
00:19:26,833 --> 00:19:29,875
with my assistant straight IPO and from

597
00:19:29,875 --> 00:19:31,958
there we never stopped.

598
00:19:32,416 --> 00:19:33,500
And this is where we started out

599
00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,541
developing great relationship with both

600
00:19:36,541 --> 00:19:38,250
manufacturers taking their

601
00:19:38,250 --> 00:19:41,333
boats, removing the fuel tank, putting

602
00:19:41,333 --> 00:19:42,958
the batteries developed to

603
00:19:42,958 --> 00:19:44,958
replace or mimic the size

604
00:19:44,958 --> 00:19:47,125
of a fuel tank, develop the great

605
00:19:47,125 --> 00:19:48,458
relationship with McLaren

606
00:19:48,458 --> 00:19:50,250
engineering, because we've been

607
00:19:50,250 --> 00:19:52,500
testing our system for since 2015.

608
00:19:53,250 --> 00:19:53,458
Yeah.

609
00:19:53,708 --> 00:19:55,041
I need someone that will validate that.

610
00:19:55,083 --> 00:19:57,916
So we did the McLaren engineering dino

611
00:19:57,916 --> 00:20:00,333
testing about for 24 months, they

612
00:20:00,333 --> 00:20:02,833
validate the power at the

613
00:20:02,833 --> 00:20:05,500
propeller. If it was not overheating and

614
00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:06,708
they were swapping engine

615
00:20:06,708 --> 00:20:09,500
every 30 days and learning

616
00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:11,875
how to do the commercialization and doing

617
00:20:11,875 --> 00:20:13,625
the mass assembly with Lenimar, the

618
00:20:13,625 --> 00:20:14,583
motherhead companies,

619
00:20:15,333 --> 00:20:16,625
the building market cap company.

620
00:20:16,916 --> 00:20:18,708
So we think it's for

621
00:20:18,708 --> 00:20:19,958
making me even more than that.

622
00:20:20,666 --> 00:20:24,666
Um, build the team to improve and

623
00:20:24,666 --> 00:20:26,500
increase the volume of

624
00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:30,125
production and get also the system

625
00:20:30,125 --> 00:20:31,375
protected with patent.

626
00:20:32,541 --> 00:20:34,250
So these are all they were all new things

627
00:20:34,250 --> 00:20:35,500
that we've put in

628
00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:39,250
place and slowly from one

629
00:20:39,250 --> 00:20:41,583
integration to a second to another one

630
00:20:41,583 --> 00:20:42,541
doing boat shows with

631
00:20:42,541 --> 00:20:44,166
manufacturers because back then

632
00:20:44,166 --> 00:20:45,958
we couldn't have the right to sell boats.

633
00:20:45,958 --> 00:20:47,625
We were taking a boat from a

634
00:20:47,625 --> 00:20:48,666
Winnebago that owns Barletta.

635
00:20:49,333 --> 00:20:52,208
So we get a boat for free.

636
00:20:52,458 --> 00:20:53,708
We put the system on.

637
00:20:53,708 --> 00:20:55,208
We do the testing together with their

638
00:20:55,208 --> 00:20:56,500
engineering teams, the CG.

639
00:20:57,208 --> 00:20:58,333
It can still be certified

640
00:20:58,333 --> 00:20:59,541
with the US Coast Guard.

641
00:21:00,041 --> 00:21:00,166
Okay.

642
00:21:00,166 --> 00:21:01,333
Let's now let's go.

643
00:21:01,333 --> 00:21:02,625
You're going to go out there at our

644
00:21:02,625 --> 00:21:03,916
dealer meeting and you're going to

645
00:21:03,916 --> 00:21:05,166
present in front of 400 dealers.

646
00:21:05,625 --> 00:21:07,166
And if you're getting 10

647
00:21:07,166 --> 00:21:08,625
thumbs up, we're going to move for.

648
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,583
And then if we get a hundred thumbs up,

649
00:21:10,583 --> 00:21:11,125
what are we going to do?

650
00:21:11,375 --> 00:21:12,041
And you get a hundred

651
00:21:12,041 --> 00:21:13,208
thumbs up because the deuces.

652
00:21:13,208 --> 00:21:14,333
Wow, it's good.

653
00:21:14,666 --> 00:21:16,291
But this is 2021, 22,

654
00:21:16,291 --> 00:21:18,291
23 and things are moving.

655
00:21:18,375 --> 00:21:20,500
And we cannot actually do

656
00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:23,208
integration as fast as we can.

657
00:21:23,208 --> 00:21:24,250
There's it's too heavy.

658
00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:25,333
So we said we're going

659
00:21:25,333 --> 00:21:26,291
to choose the right one.

660
00:21:26,291 --> 00:21:28,583
So we choose most of the manufacturers we

661
00:21:28,583 --> 00:21:32,333
choose were NASDAQ listed companies or

662
00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:33,791
big boat manufacturers.

663
00:21:34,125 --> 00:21:36,208
Yeah, it was, it was probably a mistake

664
00:21:36,208 --> 00:21:38,083
as, as I see it today, it

665
00:21:38,083 --> 00:21:39,291
was giving a lot of credibility

666
00:21:39,416 --> 00:21:40,041
to the product.

667
00:21:40,458 --> 00:21:42,916
But when the market slows down, those big

668
00:21:42,916 --> 00:21:44,208
guys are putting the

669
00:21:44,208 --> 00:21:46,000
handbrake and it did happen in 24.

670
00:21:46,916 --> 00:21:51,208
So EV space market too much boat produce

671
00:21:51,208 --> 00:21:52,541
after COVID because

672
00:21:52,541 --> 00:21:54,458
during COVID it was insane.

673
00:21:54,750 --> 00:21:55,833
But in the small carbon glass

674
00:21:55,833 --> 00:21:56,875
boat, you couldn't get them.

675
00:21:58,208 --> 00:22:00,000
And this is where the market start.

676
00:22:00,250 --> 00:22:02,333
The EV space start cooling down for us.

677
00:22:02,583 --> 00:22:04,291
So end of 2024.

678
00:22:05,125 --> 00:22:08,750
So 2025 was challenging, but I'm

679
00:22:08,750 --> 00:22:10,708
forgetting a big part of the story.

680
00:22:11,250 --> 00:22:14,250
In 2016, after the

681
00:22:14,250 --> 00:22:15,958
Fort Lauderdale boat show,

682
00:22:17,875 --> 00:22:20,166
as it was September, I said, I need to

683
00:22:20,166 --> 00:22:21,083
expose boats in Florida.

684
00:22:21,375 --> 00:22:24,041
It's about 25 hours of driving.

685
00:22:24,041 --> 00:22:24,958
It's closer to California.

686
00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:26,875
So I started advertising and putting

687
00:22:26,875 --> 00:22:28,375
boats in malls close to

688
00:22:28,375 --> 00:22:29,625
the Christmas tree during

689
00:22:30,375 --> 00:22:32,333
Christmas time and putting them in

690
00:22:32,333 --> 00:22:34,833
fountains in malls, Galleria

691
00:22:34,833 --> 00:22:36,000
malls and places like that in

692
00:22:36,041 --> 00:22:37,333
Florida and putting one

693
00:22:37,333 --> 00:22:38,166
in the water in the canal.

694
00:22:38,416 --> 00:22:39,583
So people could go in to

695
00:22:39,583 --> 00:22:40,958
do the Christmas shopping.

696
00:22:40,958 --> 00:22:41,750
They see the boat at the mall.

697
00:22:42,250 --> 00:22:44,416
They want to, they want to see trial it

698
00:22:44,416 --> 00:22:46,375
putting them on a, on a

699
00:22:46,375 --> 00:22:47,541
golf cart, bringing them right

700
00:22:47,541 --> 00:22:49,625
away on the water and full experience.

701
00:22:49,791 --> 00:22:52,000
And I met a gentleman, correct.

702
00:22:53,041 --> 00:22:56,083
And people, 99.9% of the boats we sell

703
00:22:56,083 --> 00:22:57,416
electric, they don't get financed.

704
00:22:57,750 --> 00:23:00,083
The consumer of an electric boat or an

705
00:23:00,083 --> 00:23:01,750
electric car is a different

706
00:23:01,750 --> 00:23:03,125
buyer than your regular gas

707
00:23:03,125 --> 00:23:04,916
car or interesting.

708
00:23:05,791 --> 00:23:07,458
Yes. It's interesting.

709
00:23:08,833 --> 00:23:11,500
And, uh, met a man called Roger Moore.

710
00:23:11,958 --> 00:23:14,375
Uh, his nickname is, uh, double seven.

711
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,458
And he had a huge dealership

712
00:23:16,458 --> 00:23:17,500
group that it was building.

713
00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:18,708
It was called nautical venture.

714
00:23:18,750 --> 00:23:20,750
They were all orange dealerships and they

715
00:23:20,750 --> 00:23:21,708
were all wearing shirts,

716
00:23:22,250 --> 00:23:23,166
became friends with him.

717
00:23:23,625 --> 00:23:25,500
And I love what he said the story.

718
00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:27,791
He owns both dealership and we became

719
00:23:27,791 --> 00:23:29,125
friends and he became a mentor.

720
00:23:29,166 --> 00:23:33,750
So he was the one along the past 10 years

721
00:23:33,750 --> 00:23:35,166
presenting me to

722
00:23:35,166 --> 00:23:38,250
Benito CEO Starcraft, uh,

723
00:23:38,708 --> 00:23:39,291
actual part.

724
00:23:39,291 --> 00:23:41,041
So he had those connections because he

725
00:23:41,041 --> 00:23:42,750
was one of the best dealerships in the U

726
00:23:42,750 --> 00:23:43,791
S selling their product.

727
00:23:44,250 --> 00:23:46,708
So it was, it was easy for him to present

728
00:23:46,708 --> 00:23:48,791
Alex as the new guy

729
00:23:48,791 --> 00:23:50,625
with the tech and the,

730
00:23:50,625 --> 00:23:52,625
the, the, the electric outboards to be

731
00:23:52,625 --> 00:23:53,500
installed in a Benito

732
00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:55,000
boat into a Starcraft boat.

733
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,625
So when I was arriving with Roger, the

734
00:23:57,625 --> 00:24:00,666
relationship with manufacturers were, and

735
00:24:00,666 --> 00:24:01,875
Roger was very successful

736
00:24:01,875 --> 00:24:05,375
building a number one dealer in 2024 over

737
00:24:05,375 --> 00:24:07,166
the U S top 100 dealers in

738
00:24:07,166 --> 00:24:08,708
the U S building nautical

739
00:24:08,750 --> 00:24:13,125
venture, but Roger was, uh, selling big

740
00:24:13,125 --> 00:24:15,083
brands and, uh, he was

741
00:24:15,083 --> 00:24:17,416
stuck after COVID because during

742
00:24:17,416 --> 00:24:18,625
COVID, he was running out of boats,

743
00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:19,875
started ordering more

744
00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:21,125
boats, more boats, more boats.

745
00:24:21,708 --> 00:24:22,833
And then COVID crashed.

746
00:24:23,625 --> 00:24:25,625
Yes. Yeah. Everything stopped selling.

747
00:24:26,666 --> 00:24:28,625
He had about a hundred million dollars

748
00:24:28,625 --> 00:24:32,375
worth of boat in 13 of his dealership,

749
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,041
uh, all across Florida

750
00:24:34,583 --> 00:24:36,000
and couldn't actually,

751
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,916
uh, survive like that.

752
00:24:37,916 --> 00:24:40,541
He needed plan B. So he was looking at

753
00:24:40,541 --> 00:24:42,375
for an equity for company to come and

754
00:24:42,375 --> 00:24:44,041
rescue him or buy him out.

755
00:24:44,583 --> 00:24:46,875
But it came with a lot of, uh, challenges

756
00:24:46,875 --> 00:24:49,458
because he owes those boats to the bank.

757
00:24:49,958 --> 00:24:52,166
So, but for me, I was seeing it in a

758
00:24:52,166 --> 00:24:54,250
different way that I would use those

759
00:24:54,250 --> 00:24:56,166
dealerships for distribution,

760
00:24:56,416 --> 00:25:00,750
uh, marketing and actually, uh, recon for

761
00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:01,500
the market. You want

762
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,458
to buy an electric boat,

763
00:25:02,458 --> 00:25:03,750
come in one of our dealerships, and I

764
00:25:03,750 --> 00:25:04,416
could use the legacy

765
00:25:04,416 --> 00:25:07,041
business to still keep selling gas

766
00:25:07,041 --> 00:25:09,916
boat. So, uh, we did a, about eight

767
00:25:09,916 --> 00:25:13,250
months due deal on the acquisition, uh,

768
00:25:13,250 --> 00:25:14,375
sign up the deal and

769
00:25:14,458 --> 00:25:17,375
finally closed the deal in June 20th,

770
00:25:17,375 --> 00:25:20,500
2025. So about a year ago

771
00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:22,500
from now, with a lot of debt,

772
00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,000
a lot of debt, a lot of boat. And we

773
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,166
cleaned the house. We sold a 94, 90 over

774
00:25:29,166 --> 00:25:30,250
90% of the inventory

775
00:25:30,250 --> 00:25:32,583
on real reduce almost all debt to close

776
00:25:32,583 --> 00:25:34,208
to $5 million. So from

777
00:25:34,208 --> 00:25:35,458
what they had in floor plan,

778
00:25:35,458 --> 00:25:38,958
now it's, yeah, but we were able to push

779
00:25:38,958 --> 00:25:40,916
the same time. The inventory

780
00:25:40,916 --> 00:25:42,166
we had built in Montreal on

781
00:25:42,208 --> 00:25:44,875
the EV boats sold out, sold everything in

782
00:25:44,875 --> 00:25:46,541
during that period and built

783
00:25:46,541 --> 00:25:48,708
a book of orders because now

784
00:25:48,708 --> 00:25:51,333
people have a place to go to talk to

785
00:25:51,333 --> 00:25:54,375
discuss. And we have a lot of footprint

786
00:25:54,375 --> 00:25:56,250
in boat shows and the

787
00:25:56,833 --> 00:25:58,791
presence of nautical ventures in this

788
00:25:58,791 --> 00:26:00,166
space is very well

789
00:26:00,166 --> 00:26:01,958
respected in its big Roger built

790
00:26:01,958 --> 00:26:04,375
something very strong. Uh, he built a

791
00:26:04,375 --> 00:26:06,416
very nice empire, uh, but he

792
00:26:06,416 --> 00:26:08,166
got stuck by the market. It's

793
00:26:08,291 --> 00:26:10,208
not because of bad decisions. It was

794
00:26:10,208 --> 00:26:12,291
just, yeah, it was just the way I mean,

795
00:26:12,291 --> 00:26:13,916
COVID screwed a lot of people over in

796
00:26:13,916 --> 00:26:15,916
terms of what happened. Businesses going

797
00:26:15,916 --> 00:26:17,875
up and down and yeah, I can see that.

798
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,166
95% of the dealer in the US were in the

799
00:26:21,166 --> 00:26:23,333
same position as Roger were, but they

800
00:26:23,333 --> 00:26:25,625
were not as proactive as we were during

801
00:26:25,625 --> 00:26:28,166
the past 12 months of, uh, the stocking,

802
00:26:28,375 --> 00:26:29,500
the inventory, some of them

803
00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:31,291
were very stiff on pricing.

804
00:26:31,958 --> 00:26:34,750
Yeah, it was time more change. We reduced

805
00:26:34,750 --> 00:26:37,458
the inventory, reduced the operation. And

806
00:26:37,458 --> 00:26:39,208
instead of having in one country four

807
00:26:39,208 --> 00:26:41,541
dealerships, we ended up having one and

808
00:26:41,541 --> 00:26:43,833
we are actually improving services and

809
00:26:43,833 --> 00:26:45,875
parts and having different types of

810
00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:48,041
revenue with the EV space adding on top

811
00:26:48,041 --> 00:26:49,750
of that. So we ended up

812
00:26:50,416 --> 00:26:52,500
having our own distribution. So if you do

813
00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:54,583
a quick recap, so we do build boats in

814
00:26:54,583 --> 00:26:56,333
Montreal, we built also outboards.

815
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000
Yeah, we have the dealerships that sells

816
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,875
gas boats, but also electric boats and we

817
00:27:01,875 --> 00:27:04,166
do maintenance for any electric boats,

818
00:27:04,166 --> 00:27:06,166
but also, and no one does that in the US.

819
00:27:06,166 --> 00:27:07,375
No one has the knowledge to do high

820
00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:08,625
voltage because we've

821
00:27:08,625 --> 00:27:10,125
created a system with my team.

822
00:27:10,583 --> 00:27:12,750
Yeah, with an architecture of 800 volts.

823
00:27:13,166 --> 00:27:14,291
So you cannot find a guy that

824
00:27:14,291 --> 00:27:15,333
will fix your electric boat.

825
00:27:16,208 --> 00:27:19,208
Right. And but the guys in Europe were 10

826
00:27:19,208 --> 00:27:20,708
years ahead of us are building those

827
00:27:20,708 --> 00:27:22,041
system and they don't have anyone in the

828
00:27:22,041 --> 00:27:24,500
US. So we came a very

829
00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:25,791
knowledgeable source for them.

830
00:27:26,250 --> 00:27:28,583
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm talking a lot here.

831
00:27:28,583 --> 00:27:30,500
So I'm going to let you know, it's it's

832
00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:32,708
it's perfect. It's perfect. Because like

833
00:27:32,708 --> 00:27:34,375
I kind of want to get into that

834
00:27:34,375 --> 00:27:36,958
technology in terms of because, you know,

835
00:27:37,208 --> 00:27:38,416
you kind of mentioned earlier

836
00:27:39,083 --> 00:27:40,958
that, you know, the gas market, the

837
00:27:40,958 --> 00:27:42,916
market for gas boats, gas powered boats

838
00:27:42,916 --> 00:27:45,208
is kind of going down and the EV boats

839
00:27:45,208 --> 00:27:46,458
are coming up. You mentioned obviously

840
00:27:46,458 --> 00:27:48,541
Newport Beach, California, usually ahead

841
00:27:48,541 --> 00:27:51,083
of time in terms of this type of

842
00:27:51,083 --> 00:27:51,833
technology, like

843
00:27:51,833 --> 00:27:53,375
environmentally friendly technology.

844
00:27:53,708 --> 00:27:57,125
Can you just talk about let's start off

845
00:27:57,125 --> 00:27:59,875
with just the benefits of having an EV

846
00:27:59,875 --> 00:28:02,000
boat, you know, from a, from an

847
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,083
environmental perspective and then a cost

848
00:28:04,083 --> 00:28:05,875
perspective as well for the boater

849
00:28:05,875 --> 00:28:07,708
because that always kind of comes in

850
00:28:07,708 --> 00:28:10,041
hand. Both you and I, we drive electric

851
00:28:10,041 --> 00:28:10,791
vehicles on the road.

852
00:28:10,833 --> 00:28:13,666
You obviously drive electric vehicles on

853
00:28:13,666 --> 00:28:15,083
the water to when you when you get the

854
00:28:15,083 --> 00:28:16,875
chance. We'll talk about some of the some

855
00:28:16,875 --> 00:28:19,291
of the accolades around that in a second.

856
00:28:19,291 --> 00:28:20,416
But can you just talk about like the

857
00:28:20,416 --> 00:28:22,625
environmental and the financial benefits

858
00:28:22,625 --> 00:28:24,000
of having an EV boat?

859
00:28:25,541 --> 00:28:27,750
The first thing that people notice, as I

860
00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:29,375
mentioned earlier, if you're coming to

861
00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:31,250
buy a gas pontoon, I will let you drive

862
00:28:31,250 --> 00:28:32,708
it and then I will make you drive the

863
00:28:32,708 --> 00:28:35,041
same boat with an electric engine. It's

864
00:28:35,041 --> 00:28:38,041
quiet as hell. And then as a captain

865
00:28:38,041 --> 00:28:40,791
perspective, the torque is insane.

866
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,666
So it jumped on plane because that's the

867
00:28:42,666 --> 00:28:44,458
cool part on a boat. It's when it jumps

868
00:28:44,458 --> 00:28:46,041
on plane because if it drags, it takes

869
00:28:46,041 --> 00:28:47,541
forever. Then it jumps on plane very

870
00:28:47,541 --> 00:28:51,041
quickly. You don't feel the vibration of

871
00:28:51,041 --> 00:28:54,833
the engine. It's pretty smooth. And I can

872
00:28:54,833 --> 00:28:57,583
talk to my wife, my kids, my

873
00:28:57,583 --> 00:28:59,708
father-in-law at 20, 22 miles per hour

874
00:28:59,708 --> 00:29:02,833
and having a nice discussion because it's

875
00:29:02,833 --> 00:29:04,166
also social. If you're

876
00:29:04,166 --> 00:29:06,458
boating alone, it's not fast.

877
00:29:06,833 --> 00:29:11,583
So and then the so the noise first, then

878
00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:13,541
the torque, the experience, a bit like an

879
00:29:13,541 --> 00:29:16,125
electric car. But once you know that it's

880
00:29:16,125 --> 00:29:17,875
like having a Tesla, you don't see just

881
00:29:17,875 --> 00:29:19,500
racing every corner because people know

882
00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:20,500
the power they have. They don't have

883
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:23,541
anything to prove. So on the boat, it

884
00:29:23,541 --> 00:29:25,708
jumps on plane. You like it. But most of

885
00:29:25,708 --> 00:29:27,833
the boat of the boat user do less than

886
00:29:27,833 --> 00:29:29,791
nine nautical miles every time that their

887
00:29:29,791 --> 00:29:31,916
boats out because we did a study before

888
00:29:31,916 --> 00:29:33,958
getting into the market. And that's the

889
00:29:33,958 --> 00:29:34,791
average coming from

890
00:29:34,791 --> 00:29:36,791
the boat club members.

891
00:29:36,833 --> 00:29:40,000
From a carefree boat club, people are

892
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,708
doing nine nautical miles and most of

893
00:29:41,708 --> 00:29:43,333
that they're doing nothing at trolling

894
00:29:43,333 --> 00:29:45,291
and then they push it for four or five

895
00:29:45,291 --> 00:29:47,125
minutes, 25, 30 miles per hour.

896
00:29:47,125 --> 00:29:48,875
Just more enjoyable that way. Like for a

897
00:29:48,875 --> 00:29:50,208
lot of people who are on the boats, it's

898
00:29:50,208 --> 00:29:52,000
the point of being out on the water and

899
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,958
stuff. Yeah. And then something also, it

900
00:29:54,958 --> 00:29:56,500
doesn't smell. I'm going to tell you why,

901
00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:57,583
because when you're driving one of the

902
00:29:57,583 --> 00:29:58,458
electric pontoons and

903
00:29:58,458 --> 00:30:00,458
you cross another gas boat.

904
00:30:01,333 --> 00:30:01,875
You smell it.

905
00:30:02,208 --> 00:30:03,250
But when you're on it and

906
00:30:03,250 --> 00:30:05,375
you have those fumes. Yeah.

907
00:30:06,791 --> 00:30:08,791
It's just so used to it sometimes because

908
00:30:08,791 --> 00:30:10,625
that's what you're used to, right?

909
00:30:11,791 --> 00:30:13,625
And the other thing is when you're done,

910
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,458
your day is done. You're coming back

911
00:30:15,458 --> 00:30:17,208
after seven, eight hours of boating. You

912
00:30:17,208 --> 00:30:18,625
bring that thing back home if you have a

913
00:30:18,625 --> 00:30:21,000
dock, regular shore power, same shore

914
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,208
power that your gas owner would use to

915
00:30:24,208 --> 00:30:25,625
get his boat charged because every boat

916
00:30:25,625 --> 00:30:26,833
needs to be charged at night.

917
00:30:26,833 --> 00:30:28,791
Most of them because they have bilge pump

918
00:30:28,791 --> 00:30:30,916
and they have accessories that needs to

919
00:30:30,916 --> 00:30:32,458
make sure that they work if the rain gets

920
00:30:32,458 --> 00:30:33,500
into it. So we're

921
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:34,791
using the same power cord.

922
00:30:35,041 --> 00:30:36,958
And if you're so that's a very good point

923
00:30:36,958 --> 00:30:39,041
because as I told you, I've been owning

924
00:30:39,041 --> 00:30:41,416
houses on the water for the past 25 years

925
00:30:41,416 --> 00:30:43,666
and the challenge was Saturday morning.

926
00:30:43,666 --> 00:30:45,041
And when I want to take my boats out on

927
00:30:45,041 --> 00:30:47,458
the water, I need to go buy some gas, but

928
00:30:47,458 --> 00:30:49,750
that thing in the back of my truck. Yeah.

929
00:30:50,125 --> 00:30:50,833
And then I have to walk

930
00:30:50,833 --> 00:30:52,125
with those head. Yeah.

931
00:30:52,791 --> 00:30:54,666
And down the down whichever way you need

932
00:30:54,666 --> 00:30:56,500
to go, like especially I'm thinking

933
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,541
cottages in Northern Ontario down a hill

934
00:30:59,541 --> 00:31:00,791
up a hill downstairs. Yeah, for sure.

935
00:31:00,791 --> 00:31:03,333
Yeah. You have to take your wife range

936
00:31:03,333 --> 00:31:06,875
over and then you spill some gas on the

937
00:31:06,875 --> 00:31:09,375
carpet and you just ruin it or an

938
00:31:09,375 --> 00:31:10,916
escalator Yukon and it's a hundred

939
00:31:10,916 --> 00:31:12,500
thousand dollar car that smells gas.

940
00:31:13,041 --> 00:31:14,708
And for sure. You need a second car

941
00:31:14,708 --> 00:31:16,083
almost to do the maintenance of your boat

942
00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:18,625
and to pull those boats out and and

943
00:31:18,625 --> 00:31:19,791
you're using it so little.

944
00:31:20,791 --> 00:31:25,250
So back home, get that thing on charge.

945
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:28,541
So the benefit is how easy is it to run

946
00:31:28,541 --> 00:31:31,375
or operate and the system of the tail

947
00:31:31,375 --> 00:31:33,375
trim of the boat adjust by themselves as

948
00:31:33,375 --> 00:31:35,500
well. So the knowledge to drive a boat

949
00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:37,791
around is very, very easy.

950
00:31:37,791 --> 00:31:40,708
It's much easier system has come with a

951
00:31:40,708 --> 00:31:42,958
huge screen as big as twice the size of

952
00:31:42,958 --> 00:31:44,750
your iPad, iPad, like a Tesla screen.

953
00:31:45,250 --> 00:31:47,333
Yeah. Gives you the range with a big

954
00:31:47,333 --> 00:31:49,291
number things that you have with your gas

955
00:31:49,291 --> 00:31:51,000
boats. What's the range of your gas onto?

956
00:31:51,041 --> 00:31:53,000
Good luck when the needle is down.

957
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,333
You screwed. What's the mileage you can

958
00:31:54,333 --> 00:31:56,875
do with a system we have created because

959
00:31:56,875 --> 00:31:58,708
the experience we have made around over

960
00:31:58,708 --> 00:32:02,125
the past 80,000 rental, 88,000, 85,000

961
00:32:02,125 --> 00:32:03,458
rentals. You have a big

962
00:32:03,458 --> 00:32:04,791
number. That's the mileage.

963
00:32:04,791 --> 00:32:07,708
You the range in miles or kilometers,

964
00:32:07,708 --> 00:32:09,041
depending where you are at the speed

965
00:32:09,041 --> 00:32:10,750
you're doing. So at 10, 10 miles per

966
00:32:10,750 --> 00:32:12,541
hour, the number, let's say it's a

967
00:32:12,541 --> 00:32:15,166
hundred miles. If you go 20 miles per

968
00:32:15,166 --> 00:32:17,750
hour, it will decrease. So the numbers is

969
00:32:17,750 --> 00:32:19,458
adapting with the speeds you're doing a

970
00:32:19,458 --> 00:32:21,000
lot like your car today. Your cars have

971
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,083
that. But both don't have that. Right. On

972
00:32:23,083 --> 00:32:25,458
top of that, you have a screen, a map

973
00:32:25,458 --> 00:32:28,291
with a shadow and the shadow is the range

974
00:32:28,291 --> 00:32:30,666
that you can achieve at that speed. Okay.

975
00:32:30,916 --> 00:32:34,333
At 15% we have a limp mode. So if you're

976
00:32:34,333 --> 00:32:34,791
doing 24, 45, 45, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50,
50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50,

977
00:32:34,791 --> 00:32:34,958
50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50,
50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50. 50,

978
00:32:34,958 --> 00:32:35,750
50, 50, 50. 50, 50, 1.5 miles per hour.

979
00:32:35,958 --> 00:32:37,958
And you have 20% you're having a good

980
00:32:37,958 --> 00:32:40,041
time when you're going to hit 15% it will

981
00:32:40,041 --> 00:32:43,041
slow down slowly. You won't even feel it.

982
00:32:43,041 --> 00:32:44,375
Yeah, you're going to hit about nine

983
00:32:44,375 --> 00:32:46,458
miles per hour. It will give you range

984
00:32:46,458 --> 00:32:51,458
for about an hour 15 minutes. So there's

985
00:32:51,458 --> 00:32:54,416
no reason for us to see one of our

986
00:32:54,416 --> 00:32:56,250
electric boat running out of gas and we

987
00:32:56,250 --> 00:32:57,583
see a lot of gas boats running

988
00:33:04,833 --> 00:33:07,000
stuck on a boat, a gas boat without gas,

989
00:33:07,291 --> 00:33:08,000
then you need to find

990
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,750
someone that will bring gas

991
00:33:09,750 --> 00:33:13,583
on any of our boats or you bring to

992
00:33:13,583 --> 00:33:14,625
someone else's house and

993
00:33:14,625 --> 00:33:15,416
they don't have fuel, so

994
00:33:15,416 --> 00:33:15,875
you're screwed.

995
00:33:16,125 --> 00:33:18,708
You bring the boat to any places, any

996
00:33:18,708 --> 00:33:20,541
houses can get our boat

997
00:33:20,541 --> 00:33:21,750
charged, as I mentioned earlier,

998
00:33:22,291 --> 00:33:24,583
because they can be charged with, they

999
00:33:24,583 --> 00:33:25,416
don't need any grid

1000
00:33:25,416 --> 00:33:27,375
because the charging system

1001
00:33:27,375 --> 00:33:28,958
is installed in the boat.

1002
00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:35,000
So 120 volt or 240 and if your boat is on

1003
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:35,916
a trailer and you want

1004
00:33:35,916 --> 00:33:37,166
to use your power wall

1005
00:33:37,333 --> 00:33:39,083
because it's on a trailer, you have a

1006
00:33:39,083 --> 00:33:40,291
power wall at home, you

1007
00:33:40,291 --> 00:33:41,875
use a power wall, we have

1008
00:33:41,875 --> 00:33:43,625
to develop an adapter that goes from the

1009
00:33:43,625 --> 00:33:44,916
power wall adapter or

1010
00:33:44,916 --> 00:33:47,208
the regular fast charging

1011
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:49,541
to your your shore power charging outlet.

1012
00:33:50,416 --> 00:33:51,500
So it's convenient.

1013
00:33:51,791 --> 00:33:53,083
It's so it's easy.

1014
00:33:53,583 --> 00:33:55,500
It looks crazy when you don't own a boat,

1015
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:56,625
you don't see them on the water.

1016
00:33:56,708 --> 00:33:57,708
Once you're in one of

1017
00:33:57,708 --> 00:33:59,291
them, you just see everything.

1018
00:34:00,666 --> 00:34:02,416
Yeah, it's like driving an electric car

1019
00:34:02,416 --> 00:34:03,833
for two years, then OK, I'm going to get

1020
00:34:03,833 --> 00:34:06,041
back to a big 6.6 gas liter.

1021
00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:09,125
Yeah, I think what's interesting too is

1022
00:34:09,125 --> 00:34:09,666
like, you know what?

1023
00:34:09,666 --> 00:34:12,625
Before I bought my electric car, I was

1024
00:34:12,625 --> 00:34:17,166
fascinated and very concerned about

1025
00:34:17,166 --> 00:34:18,458
running out of electricity.

1026
00:34:18,958 --> 00:34:20,708
Like, you know, like before you buy an

1027
00:34:20,708 --> 00:34:22,416
electric vehicle, you're like, OK, like,

1028
00:34:22,625 --> 00:34:24,000
are there enough, you know,

1029
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,791
chargers like what do I have to worry

1030
00:34:25,791 --> 00:34:27,208
about, like all this kind of stuff.

1031
00:34:27,875 --> 00:34:30,000
And when you get a car like an electric

1032
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,708
vehicle, you start to drive it and you

1033
00:34:32,708 --> 00:34:34,625
start to realize that there

1034
00:34:34,625 --> 00:34:35,708
are enough charges around.

1035
00:34:35,708 --> 00:34:37,166
You can charge at home, as you mentioned,

1036
00:34:37,166 --> 00:34:38,125
like it's easy to plug

1037
00:34:38,125 --> 00:34:39,791
in at night in Ontario.

1038
00:34:39,791 --> 00:34:41,208
You get like super cheap

1039
00:34:41,208 --> 00:34:42,916
to to plug in overnight.

1040
00:34:43,541 --> 00:34:45,500
And so it's really, really easy to

1041
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:48,333
navigate around when you're doing this.

1042
00:34:48,333 --> 00:34:49,958
Now, I'm not talking about Saskatchewan

1043
00:34:49,958 --> 00:34:52,583
and minus 40 for three weeks after the

1044
00:34:52,583 --> 00:34:53,666
year or anything like that.

1045
00:34:53,666 --> 00:34:55,875
But I'm talking about southern Ontario

1046
00:34:55,875 --> 00:34:57,000
going to northern Ontario.

1047
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,166
It's really easy to you're not going to

1048
00:34:59,166 --> 00:35:00,833
run out of electricity if you plan

1049
00:35:00,833 --> 00:35:02,375
properly and usually gets

1050
00:35:02,375 --> 00:35:04,500
planned for you on a boat.

1051
00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,125
You just mentioned that, like, even when

1052
00:35:06,125 --> 00:35:07,916
you're on in the middle of the water,

1053
00:35:07,916 --> 00:35:09,833
middle of the lake, say, or along the

1054
00:35:09,833 --> 00:35:12,000
coastline of the of the ocean, you know,

1055
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,583
I'd probably be I would imagine that's

1056
00:35:13,583 --> 00:35:14,375
probably one of the

1057
00:35:14,375 --> 00:35:16,333
biggest questions you get.

1058
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:17,833
Right. The most of the most questions you

1059
00:35:17,833 --> 00:35:20,125
get is like, hey, you know,

1060
00:35:20,125 --> 00:35:21,291
like, am I going to run out?

1061
00:35:21,375 --> 00:35:22,625
But you just mentioned it. It already

1062
00:35:22,625 --> 00:35:24,291
does it automatically where it slows it

1063
00:35:24,291 --> 00:35:25,583
down, you know, to

1064
00:35:25,583 --> 00:35:26,791
like nine miles an hour.

1065
00:35:27,166 --> 00:35:28,708
And then you guys like that you have

1066
00:35:28,708 --> 00:35:30,875
basically have an hour and 15 or whatever

1067
00:35:30,875 --> 00:35:32,666
amount of time to get back

1068
00:35:32,666 --> 00:35:34,041
to wherever you're going.

1069
00:35:34,541 --> 00:35:36,166
And you're pretty much good or even get

1070
00:35:36,166 --> 00:35:39,333
to a charging station or a cord just to

1071
00:35:39,333 --> 00:35:40,125
get you that charge.

1072
00:35:40,625 --> 00:35:43,291
I feel like that would like settle a lot

1073
00:35:43,291 --> 00:35:45,666
of people down in terms of getting, you

1074
00:35:45,666 --> 00:35:49,833
know, around the charging aspect of an

1075
00:35:49,833 --> 00:35:51,083
electric electric vehicle.

1076
00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:53,416
On the water or even on the on land.

1077
00:35:54,750 --> 00:35:56,958
Yes. And as I mentioned earlier, we do

1078
00:35:56,958 --> 00:35:59,833
sell a lot of gas boat from our nautical

1079
00:35:59,833 --> 00:36:02,250
venture dealership. And I would say that

1080
00:36:02,250 --> 00:36:04,875
I never hear heard or saw one of our

1081
00:36:04,875 --> 00:36:08,583
electric customer calling us because they

1082
00:36:08,583 --> 00:36:09,333
run out of electricity.

1083
00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:10,958
And they know what to do. But I can tell

1084
00:36:10,958 --> 00:36:14,583
you on the gas site. Yeah. It's going.

1085
00:36:14,583 --> 00:36:16,041
They don't know what's going on, but the

1086
00:36:16,041 --> 00:36:18,000
boat doesn't work anymore. Right.

1087
00:36:18,250 --> 00:36:20,416
Okay, so I think you have gas.

1088
00:36:21,250 --> 00:36:22,875
You've been driving electric cars.

1089
00:36:23,125 --> 00:36:24,750
How many times were you stuck on the

1090
00:36:24,750 --> 00:36:25,875
highway on the street

1091
00:36:25,875 --> 00:36:27,375
without power and the car doesn't

1092
00:36:27,375 --> 00:36:27,583
work?

1093
00:36:28,666 --> 00:36:28,875
Never.

1094
00:36:29,916 --> 00:36:30,083
Never.

1095
00:36:30,666 --> 00:36:36,333
So the biggest challenge we have is to

1096
00:36:36,333 --> 00:36:38,416
actually have people to

1097
00:36:38,416 --> 00:36:39,375
look at the product because

1098
00:36:39,375 --> 00:36:40,166
they don't think it exists.

1099
00:36:40,833 --> 00:36:42,916
So once they see it, it's the visibility.

1100
00:36:43,458 --> 00:36:45,958
So what I've been asking God to bring in

1101
00:36:45,958 --> 00:36:47,375
my life is Mercury or

1102
00:36:47,375 --> 00:36:49,000
Honda to start working

1103
00:36:49,125 --> 00:36:51,458
on something close to what they've been

1104
00:36:51,458 --> 00:36:52,958
building for decades,

1105
00:36:53,750 --> 00:36:55,125
200 horsepower gas motor.

1106
00:36:55,333 --> 00:36:57,083
So I wanted 200 gas, 200

1107
00:36:57,083 --> 00:36:58,208
horsepower electric motor.

1108
00:36:58,750 --> 00:37:00,166
So people say would say, you

1109
00:37:00,166 --> 00:37:01,541
know what if Honda is doing it?

1110
00:37:01,541 --> 00:37:01,958
It makes sense.

1111
00:37:02,458 --> 00:37:04,958
Keep in mind in 2010, 12, 13, the only

1112
00:37:04,958 --> 00:37:05,666
guy that was doing

1113
00:37:05,666 --> 00:37:07,458
really electric cars was Tesla

1114
00:37:07,750 --> 00:37:09,333
and people were betting against him.

1115
00:37:09,750 --> 00:37:11,250
And today you're buying electric car.

1116
00:37:11,250 --> 00:37:13,208
People will say, no, no, no, no, no, no.

1117
00:37:13,208 --> 00:37:15,041
It could be an RBMW, but

1118
00:37:15,041 --> 00:37:17,000
yeah, it's, this is where we are.

1119
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,208
We are in 2010, 11.

1120
00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:21,166
So it's very, very new and we need a big

1121
00:37:21,166 --> 00:37:22,583
player to come on board

1122
00:37:22,583 --> 00:37:24,375
after Tesla, then Ford came

1123
00:37:24,375 --> 00:37:28,208
on board and GM and BMW and everyone's

1124
00:37:28,208 --> 00:37:29,333
doing something electric.

1125
00:37:30,791 --> 00:37:31,916
And it's not for everyone.

1126
00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:33,291
And I'm not trying to change the world.

1127
00:37:33,291 --> 00:37:35,125
I'm just giving the options.

1128
00:37:35,791 --> 00:37:38,000
And if we can get 1% of the market per

1129
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,125
year, that would be

1130
00:37:39,125 --> 00:37:41,000
awesome because it's huge in

1131
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:41,416
the US.

1132
00:37:42,125 --> 00:37:44,541
Well, I feel like it can get big in

1133
00:37:44,541 --> 00:37:46,208
Canada too, you know, in

1134
00:37:46,208 --> 00:37:47,166
terms of how many people

1135
00:37:47,166 --> 00:37:47,833
buy boats.

1136
00:37:48,125 --> 00:37:48,833
You've got the Great Lakes.

1137
00:37:48,833 --> 00:37:50,375
You've got so many lakes in and around

1138
00:37:50,375 --> 00:37:51,083
and you've got the

1139
00:37:51,083 --> 00:37:52,291
coastlines, of course, you

1140
00:37:52,291 --> 00:37:54,416
know, Vancouver, like on the BC side on

1141
00:37:54,416 --> 00:37:56,583
the East coast, you've

1142
00:37:56,583 --> 00:37:59,166
got all those Atlantic

1143
00:37:59,166 --> 00:38:01,750
provinces and anything within Quebec and

1144
00:38:01,750 --> 00:38:02,625
more and more people

1145
00:38:02,625 --> 00:38:03,416
are getting out on the

1146
00:38:03,416 --> 00:38:05,041
water there, you know, and with climate

1147
00:38:05,041 --> 00:38:05,875
change, it actually

1148
00:38:05,875 --> 00:38:07,500
benefits people because it'll

1149
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:08,625
probably be warmer longer.

1150
00:38:08,625 --> 00:38:10,791
You can probably be on the water longer.

1151
00:38:11,958 --> 00:38:14,666
You know, there's it seems to be like a

1152
00:38:14,666 --> 00:38:17,916
really easy sell from a

1153
00:38:17,916 --> 00:38:19,041
lot of different perspectives

1154
00:38:19,458 --> 00:38:20,958
because, you know, not only from an

1155
00:38:20,958 --> 00:38:21,541
environment, so

1156
00:38:21,541 --> 00:38:23,583
environmental it is, you know, it's not

1157
00:38:23,583 --> 00:38:24,875
you're not using gasoline,

1158
00:38:24,875 --> 00:38:25,833
you're not using fossil fuels.

1159
00:38:25,833 --> 00:38:26,333
So right there,

1160
00:38:26,333 --> 00:38:27,958
you're you're reducing it.

1161
00:38:28,375 --> 00:38:31,291
There's no leakage of oil or gas because

1162
00:38:31,291 --> 00:38:32,833
you're not using oil or gas.

1163
00:38:34,375 --> 00:38:35,541
And then the noise is down.

1164
00:38:35,541 --> 00:38:37,458
So if you think about a lot of boats that

1165
00:38:37,458 --> 00:38:38,791
are on the ocean and

1166
00:38:38,791 --> 00:38:39,625
you worry about marine

1167
00:38:39,708 --> 00:38:42,250
mammals that have to worry about noise

1168
00:38:42,250 --> 00:38:43,833
and communication, you

1169
00:38:43,833 --> 00:38:45,375
know, you're pretty good,

1170
00:38:45,666 --> 00:38:47,250
you know, other than getting out of their

1171
00:38:47,250 --> 00:38:48,333
way so you don't hit them.

1172
00:38:48,333 --> 00:38:50,291
But in terms of noise, they're not going

1173
00:38:50,291 --> 00:38:51,041
to hear you coming

1174
00:38:51,041 --> 00:38:52,791
because, you know, you're

1175
00:38:52,791 --> 00:38:53,041
quiet.

1176
00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:54,500
So that's that's always nice.

1177
00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:56,583
But then from a from an actual user

1178
00:38:56,583 --> 00:38:58,791
perspective, you know, which is what

1179
00:38:58,791 --> 00:38:59,666
probably most people

1180
00:38:59,666 --> 00:39:00,458
will focus on.

1181
00:39:00,958 --> 00:39:02,458
Like you mentioned, it's quiet so you can

1182
00:39:02,458 --> 00:39:03,458
be social on the boat

1183
00:39:03,458 --> 00:39:04,708
while you're in motion.

1184
00:39:05,958 --> 00:39:09,583
It's easy, like it's less, less cost to

1185
00:39:09,583 --> 00:39:11,625
charge and to, you

1186
00:39:11,625 --> 00:39:12,083
know, you don't have to

1187
00:39:12,333 --> 00:39:13,500
focus on gasoline and

1188
00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:14,333
all that kind of stuff.

1189
00:39:14,750 --> 00:39:15,791
You don't have to buy it

1190
00:39:15,791 --> 00:39:16,541
and everything like that.

1191
00:39:17,083 --> 00:39:19,666
And then, you know, it's just it's like

1192
00:39:19,666 --> 00:39:20,916
less maintenance

1193
00:39:20,916 --> 00:39:22,500
because there's less parts to

1194
00:39:22,625 --> 00:39:23,166
maintain.

1195
00:39:23,166 --> 00:39:25,916
So it seems like a pretty easy sell.

1196
00:39:27,458 --> 00:39:29,916
Why don't we see is it just because it's

1197
00:39:29,916 --> 00:39:31,000
just limited and the

1198
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,250
technology is kind of

1199
00:39:33,291 --> 00:39:34,791
coming onto the market now where people

1200
00:39:34,791 --> 00:39:36,500
are starting to realize why don't we see

1201
00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:38,583
it in more markets other

1202
00:39:38,583 --> 00:39:39,750
than like California and

1203
00:39:39,750 --> 00:39:40,625
Florida? Like why don't we

1204
00:39:40,625 --> 00:39:43,041
see it up in Canada as much?

1205
00:39:43,333 --> 00:39:45,583
We see we see it much.

1206
00:39:45,583 --> 00:39:47,250
We see them much more

1207
00:39:47,250 --> 00:39:49,000
on the across the ocean.

1208
00:39:49,333 --> 00:39:51,375
So I would say in Europe, I would say

1209
00:39:51,375 --> 00:39:53,291
it's about 10 to 15 percent of

1210
00:39:53,291 --> 00:39:54,708
the market is going that way.

1211
00:39:56,291 --> 00:39:58,000
And there are there are

1212
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,291
a few years ahead of us.

1213
00:40:00,291 --> 00:40:02,416
We see them here without

1214
00:40:02,416 --> 00:40:03,833
knowing that they are electric.

1215
00:40:03,833 --> 00:40:05,333
As I mentioned, Duffy had

1216
00:40:05,333 --> 00:40:07,916
built 14 or 50 thousand of them.

1217
00:40:08,041 --> 00:40:10,541
And we did build the fan tails and the

1218
00:40:10,541 --> 00:40:13,333
vault, probably three, twenty five

1219
00:40:13,333 --> 00:40:13,916
hundred or three

1220
00:40:13,916 --> 00:40:15,041
thousand bolts like that.

1221
00:40:15,291 --> 00:40:16,333
So it's not a lot.

1222
00:40:16,333 --> 00:40:17,375
It's still 17000.

1223
00:40:17,583 --> 00:40:19,500
There's flux and other smaller guys.

1224
00:40:20,041 --> 00:40:21,458
It's not a big segment of the market

1225
00:40:21,458 --> 00:40:23,541
because keep in mind there's about three

1226
00:40:23,541 --> 00:40:25,666
hundred and thirty thousand outboard sold

1227
00:40:25,666 --> 00:40:26,375
per year only in the

1228
00:40:26,708 --> 00:40:28,416
U.S. And it's a very small market

1229
00:40:28,416 --> 00:40:29,666
compared to the European market.

1230
00:40:30,291 --> 00:40:32,875
The problem that we have is there's no

1231
00:40:32,875 --> 00:40:35,333
big players going that direction because

1232
00:40:35,333 --> 00:40:36,500
they have built an

1233
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:38,500
infrastructure and a product chain

1234
00:40:38,541 --> 00:40:40,500
assembly for ice engine.

1235
00:40:41,125 --> 00:40:42,708
And if you start changing that and

1236
00:40:42,708 --> 00:40:44,000
because it's much it's

1237
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,500
a much different animal.

1238
00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:46,750
The only thing you have is the calling.

1239
00:40:47,250 --> 00:40:47,833
That's the same.

1240
00:40:47,833 --> 00:40:50,291
I'm using I won't lie to what's who

1241
00:40:50,291 --> 00:40:52,083
calling and to what's who are actually

1242
00:40:52,083 --> 00:40:53,125
doing mercury and under

1243
00:40:53,125 --> 00:40:54,166
depending the size of it.

1244
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:55,416
So we're using what's

1245
00:40:55,416 --> 00:40:56,583
been used by the industry.

1246
00:40:56,875 --> 00:40:59,458
So it's well, it's it's it's saltwater

1247
00:40:59,458 --> 00:41:01,041
tested and it's a very

1248
00:41:01,041 --> 00:41:02,250
solid Japanese product.

1249
00:41:02,333 --> 00:41:04,125
Yeah, the calling, the

1250
00:41:04,125 --> 00:41:05,416
engineering around it, it's amazing.

1251
00:41:05,708 --> 00:41:07,875
The core is another design.

1252
00:41:08,333 --> 00:41:11,791
But if you're building 50 or $100,000 gas

1253
00:41:11,791 --> 00:41:14,708
outboards and some of them, not some, all

1254
00:41:14,708 --> 00:41:16,666
of them, let's say, I

1255
00:41:16,666 --> 00:41:18,250
mean, makes troubling here.

1256
00:41:18,708 --> 00:41:20,916
From the 90 horsepower to the 140, it's

1257
00:41:20,916 --> 00:41:22,583
the same base, but they change the

1258
00:41:22,583 --> 00:41:23,791
exhaust and they change the mapping.

1259
00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:26,083
If you need to change everything and go

1260
00:41:26,083 --> 00:41:29,000
back to a new technology by the time that

1261
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,291
you're up and running, you're dead.

1262
00:41:31,291 --> 00:41:31,958
They're too big.

1263
00:41:32,541 --> 00:41:35,000
So what they will do once they're ready

1264
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,166
and they feel that they can get a big

1265
00:41:37,166 --> 00:41:39,500
segment, I think they will buy a company

1266
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:40,458
that's already exist.

1267
00:41:40,833 --> 00:41:41,666
It's going to be interesting here.

1268
00:41:42,291 --> 00:41:44,458
Then starting from scratch, I've been

1269
00:41:44,458 --> 00:41:46,666
investing a lot of millions of dollars,

1270
00:41:46,666 --> 00:41:48,416
but it's not only about the money.

1271
00:41:48,666 --> 00:41:51,541
It's about the time invested to create

1272
00:41:51,541 --> 00:41:54,208
what we add and fighting the patterns and

1273
00:41:54,208 --> 00:41:55,875
having the right chains of suppliers

1274
00:41:55,875 --> 00:41:58,708
because 95 percent of the parts that we

1275
00:41:58,708 --> 00:42:01,916
are using, except the calling, are parts

1276
00:42:01,916 --> 00:42:03,416
built by our own tooling.

1277
00:42:03,416 --> 00:42:05,250
So the battery pack, we own the tooling,

1278
00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:06,500
but we have a pack maker.

1279
00:42:07,166 --> 00:42:09,833
So we're using Octillion is one of the

1280
00:42:09,833 --> 00:42:12,000
10th biggest pack maker in the world.

1281
00:42:12,416 --> 00:42:14,875
So is packaging a battery made for the

1282
00:42:14,875 --> 00:42:16,166
size of the casing we need?

1283
00:42:16,166 --> 00:42:18,166
That certification is on by us.

1284
00:42:18,166 --> 00:42:20,833
The tooling is ours and we have patents

1285
00:42:20,833 --> 00:42:22,500
for the BMS and the information that

1286
00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:23,583
drives around the system.

1287
00:42:24,208 --> 00:42:26,625
So it's same thing with the motor using a

1288
00:42:26,625 --> 00:42:29,458
very large electric motor company after

1289
00:42:29,458 --> 00:42:31,250
using their off the shelf product,

1290
00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:33,583
they've manufacture a motor that will

1291
00:42:33,583 --> 00:42:35,291
cool and be able to

1292
00:42:35,291 --> 00:42:36,916
last on saltwater for us.

1293
00:42:37,333 --> 00:42:39,958
So by having all those things been put

1294
00:42:39,958 --> 00:42:43,541
together for the past 13 years now and

1295
00:42:43,541 --> 00:42:46,708
got now 20,000 hours of testing.

1296
00:42:47,083 --> 00:42:50,000
Yeah, plus that it was expensive to do

1297
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:50,750
the McLaren engineering

1298
00:42:50,750 --> 00:42:51,791
testing for two years.

1299
00:42:52,083 --> 00:42:55,541
So just the cabinet to withdraw 700 or

1300
00:42:55,541 --> 00:42:58,375
700 volt, 24 hours a day, because you

1301
00:42:58,375 --> 00:42:59,666
have to mimic the power of a battery

1302
00:42:59,666 --> 00:43:01,208
nonstop for 24 hours a day.

1303
00:43:01,666 --> 00:43:04,500
It's long story short, it's much easier

1304
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:07,625
to to get something built by someone like

1305
00:43:07,625 --> 00:43:08,791
Vision Marine instead of

1306
00:43:08,791 --> 00:43:09,791
building it from scratch.

1307
00:43:10,208 --> 00:43:10,958
Mercury tried it.

1308
00:43:11,291 --> 00:43:14,000
They've worked on it and they've started

1309
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,333
developing a five horsepower, a 10 horse.

1310
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,625
And then we start pushing out on our end

1311
00:43:18,625 --> 00:43:22,000
and we did build a race boat to show to

1312
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,958
the world that we were better than

1313
00:43:23,958 --> 00:43:25,916
Jaguar, Jaguar, the car company.

1314
00:43:26,625 --> 00:43:28,583
Yeah, you can go on YouTube and check it.

1315
00:43:28,625 --> 00:43:31,250
It's pretty cool what they did. 2020 21.

1316
00:43:31,250 --> 00:43:34,000
They did. They took the e-pace electric

1317
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,958
race car motor and put that thing on a

1318
00:43:36,958 --> 00:43:38,833
small 20 feet boat one seater.

1319
00:43:39,041 --> 00:43:40,708
So we cannot even have your glass of

1320
00:43:40,708 --> 00:43:42,500
water in that boat. It's very small. It's

1321
00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:44,166
a formula one boat. Very, very small.

1322
00:43:44,708 --> 00:43:46,250
They put the technology on it.

1323
00:43:46,750 --> 00:43:49,083
Spend millions of dollars in two years of

1324
00:43:49,083 --> 00:43:51,541
development with a crazy story around it

1325
00:43:51,541 --> 00:43:54,333
and hit 88 miles per hour with maybe

1326
00:43:54,333 --> 00:43:56,041
four, 30 seconds or one second.

1327
00:43:56,250 --> 00:43:59,166
Yeah. One minute. Yeah. And when we saw

1328
00:43:59,166 --> 00:44:02,958
that. It's cool. But I don't think Jaguar

1329
00:44:02,958 --> 00:44:04,333
is going to build motors and I don't

1330
00:44:04,333 --> 00:44:05,041
think Jaguar is going to

1331
00:44:05,041 --> 00:44:06,166
build outboards or both.

1332
00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:08,625
But let's do a team building project. So

1333
00:44:08,625 --> 00:44:10,291
we start working on that.

1334
00:44:11,750 --> 00:44:13,416
Start poking around because I cannot

1335
00:44:13,416 --> 00:44:14,875
drive fast boats anymore because the

1336
00:44:14,875 --> 00:44:16,000
board doesn't allow me that for

1337
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,000
liabilities and other reasons. Of course.

1338
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,958
Yeah. So I reached out to Sean Torente,

1339
00:44:21,958 --> 00:44:23,916
who's actually the world

1340
00:44:23,916 --> 00:44:24,833
number one race boater.

1341
00:44:25,041 --> 00:44:28,333
I raised driver and he's racing for

1342
00:44:28,333 --> 00:44:31,708
Mercury and other big team Abu Dhabi and

1343
00:44:31,708 --> 00:44:35,333
Qatar and he's a former he's the man on

1344
00:44:35,333 --> 00:44:37,291
the planet. He's the man. Yeah.

1345
00:44:37,916 --> 00:44:40,333
And he says, Sean, I want you to we will

1346
00:44:40,333 --> 00:44:43,375
build the boat, the 32 footer boat that

1347
00:44:43,375 --> 00:44:45,750
could be used with twin motors race on

1348
00:44:45,750 --> 00:44:47,708
the gas division. And I want the same

1349
00:44:47,708 --> 00:44:50,750
boat to be pushed by our same motors that

1350
00:44:50,750 --> 00:44:51,958
we sell to consumer.

1351
00:44:52,791 --> 00:44:54,875
Yeah. And show to Jaguar. We're going to

1352
00:44:54,875 --> 00:44:57,041
be better than them. And there's a

1353
00:44:57,041 --> 00:44:59,750
documentary on Amazon Prime and also on

1354
00:44:59,750 --> 00:45:01,416
YouTube. It's a 24 minute documentary

1355
00:45:01,416 --> 00:45:04,208
from it's called Can't Stop Won't Stop.

1356
00:45:04,208 --> 00:45:05,958
So you got the full story. We've built

1357
00:45:05,958 --> 00:45:08,250
that. So when we did the first boat, it

1358
00:45:08,250 --> 00:45:10,000
was a pleasure boat. No top.

1359
00:45:11,583 --> 00:45:14,458
Six passengers, 32 footer race cat. And

1360
00:45:14,458 --> 00:45:18,625
we did 109 miles per hour. Shattering the

1361
00:45:18,625 --> 00:45:20,541
world record by John. Yeah.

1362
00:45:21,083 --> 00:45:22,875
And like almost like a school project.

1363
00:45:23,083 --> 00:45:25,500
It's in a regular boat like in a boat

1364
00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:27,791
that you was a production boat to receive

1365
00:45:27,791 --> 00:45:29,041
gas tanks in it. And we.

1366
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,250
And when we did that, then Sean says, you

1367
00:45:33,250 --> 00:45:34,666
know, we're going to take a real race

1368
00:45:34,666 --> 00:45:37,083
boat now with capsule that could actually

1369
00:45:37,083 --> 00:45:39,833
be racing with Mercury engines on

1370
00:45:39,833 --> 00:45:41,916
weekends. Remove the engine, put electric

1371
00:45:41,916 --> 00:45:44,041
ones on and we can be on the real circuit

1372
00:45:44,041 --> 00:45:45,625
with real professional. No

1373
00:45:45,625 --> 00:45:46,833
one can say you're doing.

1374
00:45:47,166 --> 00:45:50,000
You're taking a and we that's part of the

1375
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,708
documentary. You'll see that. And with

1376
00:45:51,708 --> 00:45:54,750
that one, we did 116 miles per hour. And

1377
00:45:54,750 --> 00:45:56,125
as we speak, we've been challenging

1378
00:45:56,125 --> 00:45:58,625
everyone. And with the same boat, it's

1379
00:45:58,625 --> 00:46:00,833
faster with electric engine than with

1380
00:46:00,833 --> 00:46:04,541
Mercury gas 300. Yes. And I'm challenging

1381
00:46:04,541 --> 00:46:06,541
anyone in the world that say that there's

1382
00:46:06,541 --> 00:46:07,541
something powerful on the electric

1383
00:46:07,541 --> 00:46:09,083
because there's always a news flavor of

1384
00:46:09,083 --> 00:46:10,833
the month. We've got the most powerful

1385
00:46:10,833 --> 00:46:12,750
boats. Yes, please. We want

1386
00:46:12,750 --> 00:46:14,458
that. We want the companies.

1387
00:46:14,958 --> 00:46:18,083
And that it's showing that it's the right

1388
00:46:18,083 --> 00:46:19,541
way. And there's probably some way I want

1389
00:46:19,541 --> 00:46:21,333
someone to shatter that record because

1390
00:46:21,333 --> 00:46:22,708
it's going to show to the industry that

1391
00:46:22,708 --> 00:46:24,916
it's good. Now we see that every car

1392
00:46:24,916 --> 00:46:27,000
manufacturer as a model, that's very

1393
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,583
powerful. And it's for early adapters.

1394
00:46:29,583 --> 00:46:31,000
But on the on the car side, there's no

1395
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,291
more early adapters. It's it's a right.

1396
00:46:33,291 --> 00:46:36,166
It's a community. And yes, on the both

1397
00:46:36,166 --> 00:46:38,916
side, it's still early adapters. And I

1398
00:46:38,916 --> 00:46:40,208
would say that the bike

1399
00:46:40,208 --> 00:46:44,375
2030, it's a 20 billion business.

1400
00:46:44,958 --> 00:46:48,458
It's a growing business. And as we speak,

1401
00:46:49,083 --> 00:46:51,250
I don't see who's bigger than us. I

1402
00:46:51,250 --> 00:46:54,250
don't. There's and we need someone bigger

1403
00:46:54,250 --> 00:46:57,208
than us. And we want that. And the market

1404
00:46:57,208 --> 00:46:59,791
is huge. And we want to be sure that we

1405
00:46:59,791 --> 00:47:01,750
see at least five, six percent of

1406
00:47:01,750 --> 00:47:02,916
electric boats and marinas

1407
00:47:02,916 --> 00:47:04,666
when we're traveling or one.

1408
00:47:05,625 --> 00:47:06,250
That'd be cool.

1409
00:47:07,583 --> 00:47:09,291
I've been driving electric boats in the

1410
00:47:09,291 --> 00:47:11,333
ocean here in California. So I go to

1411
00:47:11,333 --> 00:47:14,500
Huntington Beach or Laguna Beach and and

1412
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:17,791
I can have a very decent connections with

1413
00:47:17,791 --> 00:47:22,458
dolphins and turtles or and moonfish

1414
00:47:22,458 --> 00:47:25,250
because they're ready. There's no

1415
00:47:25,250 --> 00:47:27,625
vibration. And I don't know why they love

1416
00:47:27,625 --> 00:47:29,625
just the fact that you're moving like a

1417
00:47:29,666 --> 00:47:32,333
little bit. And it's like, yes, yes. And

1418
00:47:32,333 --> 00:47:33,875
the connection you mentioned earlier,

1419
00:47:33,875 --> 00:47:35,375
it's what even in Florida, when you're

1420
00:47:35,375 --> 00:47:36,791
driving that thing in the canal, you see

1421
00:47:36,791 --> 00:47:39,458
manatees very, very because they don't we

1422
00:47:39,458 --> 00:47:41,125
have to be cautious. Yes, of course.

1423
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,583
It's it's it's you're connected to the

1424
00:47:44,583 --> 00:47:46,041
nature and being on the water. That's the

1425
00:47:46,041 --> 00:47:47,291
most beautiful part. That's why people

1426
00:47:47,291 --> 00:47:49,208
have so close because you've got that

1427
00:47:49,208 --> 00:47:52,291
way. And you don't. And the only thing

1428
00:47:52,291 --> 00:47:53,625
you hear on the electric boat is the

1429
00:47:53,625 --> 00:47:54,458
water touching the

1430
00:47:54,458 --> 00:47:56,041
hole. And that's amazing.

1431
00:47:56,958 --> 00:48:00,500
I'm I'm getting excited. This is to be on

1432
00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:02,750
one of them to understand that when

1433
00:48:02,750 --> 00:48:04,833
you're in the market, that's the thing to

1434
00:48:04,833 --> 00:48:06,500
do. And but it's not made for everyone.

1435
00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:08,291
It's not a boat that you will move and do

1436
00:48:08,291 --> 00:48:10,041
four hundred miles on a day. But no

1437
00:48:10,041 --> 00:48:11,958
matter no matter what, no one does four

1438
00:48:11,958 --> 00:48:12,750
hundred miles on a boat.

1439
00:48:12,791 --> 00:48:14,833
Yeah, exactly. And when you're a voter,

1440
00:48:15,166 --> 00:48:16,375
you need when you know when you do three

1441
00:48:16,375 --> 00:48:19,250
hours of voting at 40 miles per hour, the

1442
00:48:19,250 --> 00:48:21,000
only guy who enjoys it, it's the it's the

1443
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:22,916
captain. People in the boat cannot have a

1444
00:48:22,916 --> 00:48:24,708
drink, a glass of water or something to

1445
00:48:24,708 --> 00:48:27,166
eat. It's yeah, you're still on the

1446
00:48:27,166 --> 00:48:28,708
ocean. You're still on the water. It's

1447
00:48:28,708 --> 00:48:31,291
bumpy. And it's all that. Right. Yeah.

1448
00:48:31,291 --> 00:48:33,625
Yeah. For sure. For sure. It's it's not

1449
00:48:33,625 --> 00:48:36,166
made for that. Like you don't see big 53

1450
00:48:36,166 --> 00:48:37,791
footer trucks on the highway electric.

1451
00:48:37,791 --> 00:48:41,333
It's made to move people for from three

1452
00:48:41,333 --> 00:48:42,750
passengers to seven passengers.

1453
00:48:42,791 --> 00:48:45,000
It's not made now. It's not there yet,

1454
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,708
but it's made for people for family

1455
00:48:47,708 --> 00:48:50,958
boaters boats between 18 to 30 feet and

1456
00:48:50,958 --> 00:48:53,083
enjoying weekends for a full day of

1457
00:48:53,083 --> 00:48:54,833
boating. And after it's overnight, the

1458
00:48:54,833 --> 00:48:56,500
night you have to get that in charge in

1459
00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:57,125
the next morning,

1460
00:48:57,125 --> 00:48:57,750
you're back on the water.

1461
00:48:58,541 --> 00:49:00,541
Love it. I think that's phenomenal. I

1462
00:49:00,541 --> 00:49:02,375
think it's I think it's the future. I

1463
00:49:02,375 --> 00:49:04,000
hope to see more in Canada more and more

1464
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,208
as we as we go along. I hope to be one of

1465
00:49:06,208 --> 00:49:08,666
those owners at some point the next five

1466
00:49:08,666 --> 00:49:11,250
years. And yeah, I think this will be

1467
00:49:11,250 --> 00:49:12,541
it'll be a lot of fun.

1468
00:49:12,791 --> 00:49:14,875
Before we go, you know, we talked about

1469
00:49:14,875 --> 00:49:16,708
breaking the record, but you've also been

1470
00:49:16,708 --> 00:49:18,875
involved, you know, as as we talk about

1471
00:49:18,875 --> 00:49:21,416
EVs and the environmental benefits,

1472
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,541
you've also been involved with a

1473
00:49:23,541 --> 00:49:24,333
conservation organization

1474
00:49:24,333 --> 00:49:25,583
that's a friend of the podcast.

1475
00:49:25,583 --> 00:49:28,500
We've had, you know, four oceans on huge

1476
00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:30,291
talk a lot a little bit about that

1477
00:49:30,291 --> 00:49:31,375
relationship and how

1478
00:49:31,375 --> 00:49:32,458
they used your boats.

1479
00:49:33,958 --> 00:49:37,083
Yes, I was in 2023, the year that we

1480
00:49:37,083 --> 00:49:39,333
decided to build the second boats to do

1481
00:49:39,333 --> 00:49:42,500
160 miles per hour. My father and my

1482
00:49:42,500 --> 00:49:45,041
mother and I used to actually go sailing

1483
00:49:45,041 --> 00:49:46,541
in the wintertime. So they were taking

1484
00:49:46,541 --> 00:49:48,041
their sailboats from like Champlain

1485
00:49:48,041 --> 00:49:50,166
driving down to Florida and then crossing

1486
00:49:50,166 --> 00:49:52,458
to the exuma for the winter. And I did

1487
00:49:52,458 --> 00:49:53,916
that for the past 20 years with them. And

1488
00:49:53,916 --> 00:49:56,583
I love quite I like I like talking with

1489
00:49:56,583 --> 00:49:57,916
people and having a good time on boats.

1490
00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:00,416
So they were a little bit sad because we

1491
00:50:00,416 --> 00:50:01,666
were not close to them and

1492
00:50:01,666 --> 00:50:02,416
they were not close to the kids.

1493
00:50:02,666 --> 00:50:04,416
Because we were working hard on building

1494
00:50:04,416 --> 00:50:06,125
that race boats. And I said to Patrick,

1495
00:50:06,458 --> 00:50:08,875
let's do a crazy challenge while we're

1496
00:50:08,875 --> 00:50:10,750
doing the fastest one. Let's do the one

1497
00:50:10,750 --> 00:50:11,750
that can has the more

1498
00:50:11,750 --> 00:50:13,208
more more range in the world.

1499
00:50:13,750 --> 00:50:20,333
So Pat took a 26 feet pound to add a huge

1500
00:50:20,333 --> 00:50:23,958
solar panel canopy on its structure with

1501
00:50:23,958 --> 00:50:25,958
enclosures because we're Canadian. So we

1502
00:50:25,958 --> 00:50:27,416
know when it's raining, it's windy.

1503
00:50:27,791 --> 00:50:30,333
So we said to the inlas, you're good to

1504
00:50:30,333 --> 00:50:32,458
do the Hudson River from New York and

1505
00:50:32,458 --> 00:50:34,625
you're able you know the route straight

1506
00:50:34,625 --> 00:50:36,875
to Florida and let's bring it to Florida

1507
00:50:36,875 --> 00:50:39,958
and we'll put Starlink on it, a coffee

1508
00:50:39,958 --> 00:50:41,750
machine on it. And you have to drop the

1509
00:50:41,750 --> 00:50:43,625
anchors and the solar panel will get that

1510
00:50:43,625 --> 00:50:44,250
in charge during the

1511
00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:45,291
day and you can move.

1512
00:50:45,333 --> 00:50:47,708
Well, but you a tracking device people

1513
00:50:47,708 --> 00:50:50,208
could follow you on YouTube and Instagram

1514
00:50:50,208 --> 00:50:52,708
during your trip. You did it in your

1515
00:50:52,708 --> 00:50:54,500
cellboat many times at seven miles per

1516
00:50:54,500 --> 00:50:56,291
hour. Let's do it because most of the

1517
00:50:56,291 --> 00:50:58,375
places you cannot go fast on that river.

1518
00:50:58,375 --> 00:51:02,625
And for challenging purposes and stunt,

1519
00:51:02,625 --> 00:51:05,000
we started from statue of liberty in New

1520
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,916
York. We dropped the pontoon there with a

1521
00:51:07,916 --> 00:51:08,708
friend of mine who

1522
00:51:08,708 --> 00:51:09,833
owns electrified Marina.

1523
00:51:10,125 --> 00:51:13,541
Rick and he's a dealership that sells a

1524
00:51:13,541 --> 00:51:15,583
lot of electric boats and he's a place to

1525
00:51:15,583 --> 00:51:18,083
go in your net in that area electrified

1526
00:51:18,083 --> 00:51:20,875
Marina. So we dropped my father in law,

1527
00:51:20,875 --> 00:51:24,166
65 years old back then retired chief of

1528
00:51:24,166 --> 00:51:25,541
police with my mother in law.

1529
00:51:25,625 --> 00:51:28,500
Drop that thing there. Put our CBO on it.

1530
00:51:28,750 --> 00:51:30,583
Chief vending officer with the GoPro

1531
00:51:30,583 --> 00:51:33,916
drones and we'll see you in Florida and

1532
00:51:33,916 --> 00:51:36,708
they made it and when the boat right. It

1533
00:51:36,708 --> 00:51:38,833
was a sponsor given to for ocean because

1534
00:51:38,833 --> 00:51:42,000
the deal with for ocean is when we were

1535
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,583
building was selling electric boats.

1536
00:51:43,625 --> 00:51:46,416
We were giving X amount of dollar per

1537
00:51:46,416 --> 00:51:49,333
electric boat sold and also for rentals

1538
00:51:49,333 --> 00:51:52,291
and funny fact is as as this morning, my

1539
00:51:52,291 --> 00:51:54,500
kids are distributing bracelet from for

1540
00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:57,750
ocean door to door for and we're giving a

1541
00:51:57,750 --> 00:52:00,208
dollar back to each rentals from our

1542
00:52:00,208 --> 00:52:02,083
location in California for people who are

1543
00:52:02,083 --> 00:52:03,750
coming down with a bracelet to our rental

1544
00:52:03,750 --> 00:52:06,583
operation to sponsor and give more love.

1545
00:52:06,833 --> 00:52:09,458
People don't know all for ocean is being

1546
00:52:09,458 --> 00:52:11,666
proactive. There's like cleaning

1547
00:52:11,666 --> 00:52:14,458
waterways. Alex is a rock star superstar.

1548
00:52:14,458 --> 00:52:16,666
Amazing. And we need we need hundreds of

1549
00:52:16,666 --> 00:52:18,875
those guys. They're doing an amazing job.

1550
00:52:19,791 --> 00:52:22,083
And so it became when we arrived in Boca,

1551
00:52:22,375 --> 00:52:25,791
we gave them the pontoon. It was was a

1552
00:52:25,791 --> 00:52:27,208
very luxurious pontoon. I thought at

1553
00:52:27,208 --> 00:52:30,083
first that I could use it to put, I would

1554
00:52:30,083 --> 00:52:33,250
say remove garbage or floating plastic

1555
00:52:33,250 --> 00:52:34,125
bottles from the ocean.

1556
00:52:36,166 --> 00:52:39,000
I think I think it didn't make sense for

1557
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,500
them to use that. So they use it more

1558
00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:42,000
like an office on the water because

1559
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,458
that's from the back to the front. A huge

1560
00:52:44,458 --> 00:52:48,000
solar panel like very nice in glass with

1561
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,541
windows that you can remove. And then you

1562
00:52:50,541 --> 00:52:51,750
can use that thing if it's raining

1563
00:52:51,750 --> 00:52:53,875
because keep in mind, they may they were

1564
00:52:53,875 --> 00:52:55,041
sleeping and moving from

1565
00:52:55,041 --> 00:52:56,583
that boat with the solar.

1566
00:52:57,625 --> 00:53:00,125
The the for the day that they did that in

1567
00:53:00,125 --> 00:53:03,041
a week and a half or two weeks slowly

1568
00:53:03,041 --> 00:53:07,333
driving down. So they did 13,000 miles on

1569
00:53:07,333 --> 00:53:08,250
that electric boats.

1570
00:53:08,625 --> 00:53:11,166
Along the coastal, like not just in the

1571
00:53:11,166 --> 00:53:13,458
river, but along the coastline, like

1572
00:53:13,458 --> 00:53:15,500
along the eastern US is that like they're

1573
00:53:15,500 --> 00:53:17,000
they were hugging the coast as they go

1574
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,500
through. Yeah, from statue Liberty down

1575
00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:23,125
to Boca and got told a few weeks ago that

1576
00:53:23,125 --> 00:53:26,041
they sold it and they're using the funds

1577
00:53:26,041 --> 00:53:28,958
to actually grow the business because it

1578
00:53:28,958 --> 00:53:31,041
was it was too, too beautiful.

1579
00:53:32,083 --> 00:53:34,125
And it's better for them to have a skier

1580
00:53:34,125 --> 00:53:36,708
for different type of boat for what

1581
00:53:36,708 --> 00:53:38,500
they're using a bar. They needed a barge.

1582
00:53:38,791 --> 00:53:40,666
Yes, that's the thing. It was it was more

1583
00:53:40,666 --> 00:53:42,125
described to them as a barge when they

1584
00:53:42,125 --> 00:53:42,958
saw that thing coming

1585
00:53:42,958 --> 00:53:45,000
to their their places.

1586
00:53:46,375 --> 00:53:47,500
Well, and you're not putting your

1587
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:49,583
mother-in-law father-in-law on a barge to

1588
00:53:49,583 --> 00:53:55,875
come down. It was and I could use that

1589
00:53:55,875 --> 00:53:57,666
pontoon anytime in the day because it was

1590
00:53:57,666 --> 00:53:59,000
covered. It was nice.

1591
00:53:59,000 --> 00:53:59,583
Beautiful. Beautiful.

1592
00:53:59,625 --> 00:54:02,250
And we have a great relationship with for

1593
00:54:02,250 --> 00:54:05,041
ocean and we need more people like them.

1594
00:54:05,041 --> 00:54:07,750
Yeah, absolutely. I think we had them on

1595
00:54:07,750 --> 00:54:09,083
the pot. We had Alex on the podcast

1596
00:54:09,083 --> 00:54:11,041
couple of years ago, talked about it's

1597
00:54:11,041 --> 00:54:13,791
just how he does everything the way he,

1598
00:54:13,791 --> 00:54:16,541
you know, in powers coastal communities,

1599
00:54:16,541 --> 00:54:18,166
not just in Florida, but all over the

1600
00:54:18,166 --> 00:54:20,375
world and, you know, pays them a living

1601
00:54:20,375 --> 00:54:21,583
wage and they get to you.

1602
00:54:21,625 --> 00:54:24,500
They get to their own management within

1603
00:54:24,500 --> 00:54:26,458
their own area, like in Bali and Haiti

1604
00:54:26,458 --> 00:54:27,958
and all over the place. I just think what

1605
00:54:27,958 --> 00:54:30,208
they're doing is absolutely fantastic. So

1606
00:54:30,208 --> 00:54:33,375
it's no doubt in my mind why it made

1607
00:54:33,375 --> 00:54:35,458
sense for you guys to partner with them

1608
00:54:35,458 --> 00:54:36,625
and to help them out.

1609
00:54:36,625 --> 00:54:38,208
I think it's I think it's fantastic.

1610
00:54:38,708 --> 00:54:40,083
Listen, Alexander, this has been

1611
00:54:40,083 --> 00:54:42,500
phenomenal. Like this has been eye

1612
00:54:42,500 --> 00:54:44,375
opening. It's gotten me very, very

1613
00:54:44,375 --> 00:54:46,000
excited about where

1614
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,583
boating is going in the future.

1615
00:54:47,625 --> 00:54:51,000
And I think it's just it's a very helpful

1616
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,000
thing when you think about people who

1617
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,625
want to be more environmentally friendly

1618
00:54:54,625 --> 00:54:57,875
and they're in the boating community. And

1619
00:54:57,875 --> 00:55:00,541
I just feel like it's a it's a it's the

1620
00:55:00,541 --> 00:55:02,958
most logical next step for people who

1621
00:55:02,958 --> 00:55:05,291
want to who want to do wonderful boat. So

1622
00:55:05,291 --> 00:55:07,083
we're boating with their families and

1623
00:55:07,083 --> 00:55:08,458
stuff. I think it's I think it's great.

1624
00:55:09,083 --> 00:55:10,708
I want to thank you for taking time. I

1625
00:55:10,708 --> 00:55:12,375
know you're very, very busy man. So I

1626
00:55:12,375 --> 00:55:14,125
appreciate you taking the time. Love to

1627
00:55:14,125 --> 00:55:15,791
have you back. Talk more about electric

1628
00:55:15,791 --> 00:55:16,583
boats and where we're going to go in the future with them.

1629
00:55:16,625 --> 00:55:20,083
You know, down the line and it'd be a lot

1630
00:55:20,083 --> 00:55:22,916
of fun. Thank you for having me today.

1631
00:55:22,916 --> 00:55:26,791
But I would like to invite you on a boat

1632
00:55:26,791 --> 00:55:28,125
for the next interview. So you could

1633
00:55:28,125 --> 00:55:30,916
actually and the people could actually

1634
00:55:30,916 --> 00:55:33,333
have the touch and feel of it. So I think

1635
00:55:33,333 --> 00:55:34,208
it would be amazing.

1636
00:55:35,125 --> 00:55:36,666
If you want to do it, they deserve that.

1637
00:55:36,958 --> 00:55:38,000
And they're going to have a better

1638
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,500
understanding. And that's my job. I need

1639
00:55:40,500 --> 00:55:42,000
to educate people. That's what I've been

1640
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,833
doing for the past 15 years now. 14 years

1641
00:55:44,833 --> 00:55:45,583
I've been educating people. And I think the best thing to do is to help them out.

1642
00:55:45,625 --> 00:55:46,416
And I think that's what I've been doing for the past 15 years. I've been doing a lot of work with people and I think the

1643
00:55:46,416 --> 00:55:50,000
best way is using people like Alex or

1644
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,708
yourself. People who have the touch of

1645
00:55:53,708 --> 00:55:55,291
what we're doing because you understand

1646
00:55:55,291 --> 00:55:57,625
it. So if I could put you on a boat with

1647
00:55:57,625 --> 00:56:00,041
your team, it would be a would be honored

1648
00:56:00,041 --> 00:56:02,500
to do that. And you're twisting my arm

1649
00:56:02,500 --> 00:56:03,583
here. This is what I'm doing.

1650
00:56:10,625 --> 00:56:14,416
We're going to be able to chat. It'll be

1651
00:56:14,416 --> 00:56:16,958
a lot of fun. Yeah, that would be

1652
00:56:16,958 --> 00:56:19,541
awesome. Thank you so much Alexander.

1653
00:56:19,791 --> 00:56:21,625
Thank you for joining us on today's

1654
00:56:21,625 --> 00:56:23,333
episode of the How to Protect the Ocean

1655
00:56:23,333 --> 00:56:25,166
podcast. Isn't it great to be able to

1656
00:56:25,166 --> 00:56:27,666
know that when you go out boating that as

1657
00:56:27,666 --> 00:56:29,916
you using your boat, as you're going from

1658
00:56:29,916 --> 00:56:31,291
one place to another, you're not going to

1659
00:56:31,291 --> 00:56:33,166
hear the motor. You can actually speak to

1660
00:56:33,166 --> 00:56:34,541
your family. You can actually speak to

1661
00:56:34,541 --> 00:56:36,208
the people in there and enjoy a quiet

1662
00:56:36,208 --> 00:56:38,708
time on the ocean. Not only that, but

1663
00:56:38,708 --> 00:56:39,583
think about how that reduces the amount of time you're going to be able to do that.

1664
00:56:39,625 --> 00:56:42,125
How that reduces noise underwater, just

1665
00:56:42,125 --> 00:56:45,250
not having that noise of a motor. I think

1666
00:56:45,250 --> 00:56:46,458
that's really important. I think there's

1667
00:56:46,458 --> 00:56:47,791
a lot of benefits that I was on the

1668
00:56:47,791 --> 00:56:51,250
mentioned in this episode and it's just a

1669
00:56:51,250 --> 00:56:52,458
new way of voting. It's going to be

1670
00:56:52,458 --> 00:56:54,291
something that's going to happen more and

1671
00:56:54,291 --> 00:56:55,791
more. And even though it doesn't take up

1672
00:56:55,791 --> 00:56:58,625
a huge amount of the, I guess the

1673
00:56:58,625 --> 00:57:00,750
recreational boating fleet, but it will

1674
00:57:00,750 --> 00:57:02,875
eventually. And I think it'll overtake it

1675
00:57:02,875 --> 00:57:04,708
as we get closer and more understanding

1676
00:57:04,708 --> 00:57:07,041
about electric boating is had by

1677
00:57:07,041 --> 00:57:08,583
everyone. So I want to thank Alexander for his time.

1678
00:57:08,625 --> 00:57:10,250
I want to thank Alexander for joining us.

1679
00:57:10,250 --> 00:57:12,791
You can go to Vision Marine technology.

1680
00:57:13,166 --> 00:57:16,250
So visionmarinetechnologies.com. And of

1681
00:57:16,250 --> 00:57:18,625
course, yeah, we'd love to hear from you

1682
00:57:18,625 --> 00:57:20,625
what you what you think of the of this

1683
00:57:20,625 --> 00:57:22,291
type of boating. Have you do have an

1684
00:57:22,291 --> 00:57:25,250
electric motor on your boat? If not, what

1685
00:57:25,250 --> 00:57:27,500
what entices you to do something in the

1686
00:57:27,500 --> 00:57:30,000
future like that? I get an electric boat

1687
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,041
and what are your concerns? I'd love to

1688
00:57:32,041 --> 00:57:34,666
hear them. Hit me up on the socials with

1689
00:57:34,666 --> 00:57:36,208
links in the show notes. And of course,

1690
00:57:36,666 --> 00:57:37,208
if you want to support the

1691
00:57:37,208 --> 00:57:38,583
show, go to speakupforblue.com.

1692
00:57:38,625 --> 00:57:41,291
For slash patreon will put vision Marines

1693
00:57:41,291 --> 00:57:44,500
and Alexander's connect us connections

1694
00:57:44,500 --> 00:57:46,041
with social media connections in the show

1695
00:57:46,041 --> 00:57:46,958
notes as well. We want to thank

1696
00:57:46,958 --> 00:57:48,208
Alexander. We want to thank you for

1697
00:57:48,208 --> 00:57:50,000
joining us on today's episode of the how

1698
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,583
to protect the ocean podcast. Have a

1699
00:57:51,583 --> 00:57:52,875
great day. We'll talk to you next time

1700
00:57:52,875 --> 00:57:53,875
and happy conservation.