I tried posting to the Minecraft subreddit, but the post would get deleted immediately. I just want to show someone!
It’s mostly silent, minus the dispensers clicking and occasional water splash, but it’s much smoother than a flying machine, and not to terribly slow, rising at a little over 2 blocks per second. It’s a good way to transport things vertically
It goes down faster because the wiring is one way, bottom to top. So the water gets picked up starting at the bottom going up, and the last one just drops the boat at the water fall speed