Wow 3 mornings and a bottle of tylenol later I finely finished reading 160 pages of this thread. I started pulling cranks last year and came up with some pretty cool ideas for some of you guys that fish with a tiller motor and a small boat. The bucket self explanatory . What I did to construct the A Pilot was add 2 small shackles to the back corners of the boat and tie 2 length of para cord to the tiller handle and run them forward to the seat on the front deck. You are looking backwards so you can watch all your rods at the same time. This setup gets you away from the engine noise and smoke if you have a 2 stroke motor like me.