New trolling motor...maybe?

**binfordw** · 05-04-2019, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by dbowling

What is a pain in the but is stowing/deploying motor, they could of come up with a little better design for it.

They did, Its called an Ulterra

Foot controls do seem awkward on the Minn Kota as well. Ive tried using mine a few times but it seems tricky to me. I can see where people that do live in the front of the boat prefer the cable steer motors. I use follow contour, autopilot, go-to waypoint, etc for all my navigation and just avoid the foot pedal. I don't usually need to use the remote enough to keep it on me- which is good, because the touch screen doesn't seem to do well with dangling against your body.

**dbowling** · 05-04-2019, 08:30 PM

This is true, wish I would of went ahead and bought one before my Xi5 but at the time was using on 14 ft V bottom and was fairly easy to deploy/stow, on pontoon more of a pain as its between my seats.. I still really like it though.

Originally Posted by binfordw

They did, Its called an Ulterra

Foot controls do seem awkward on the Minn Kota as well. Ive tried using mine a few times but it seems tricky to me. I can see where people that do live in the front of the boat prefer the cable steer motors. I use follow contour, autopilot, go-to waypoint, etc for all my navigation and just avoid the foot pedal. I don't usually need to use the remote enough to keep it on me- which is good, because the touch screen doesn't seem to do well with dangling against your body.

**Fishfood123** · 05-05-2019, 08:41 PM

Sheared the bolt that holds the handle on top of shaft of my minnkota 55 edge today. It was windy and I fought it to stay on fish all day. Only dinks to be had. All the more reason to get a new trolling motor even though it will be pretty simple to fix.

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