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rear end drifting, jon boat rudder?
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<blockquote data-quote="nlester" data-source="post: 277738" data-attributes="member: 8483"><p>I have found several designs using an Internet search. I haven't built one yet but plan to do it in the future. It is a common problem.</p><p></p><p>If I leave my 2 hp motor in the water on the stern, my boat does a good job of tracking with the trolling motot on the front. When I go out without my outboard, I put up with the boat doing a sort of crab walk. I had not thought about a rudder until one day I was in water so shallow that I had to lift the outboard and the boat did not track correctly.</p><p></p><p>If I build a rudder, it will not be for steering but and be fixed act like a keel board on the transom. It will clamp on like a trolling motor, will not have to be very big and will be able to be raised or kicked up as neede but really, all it need to do is be a fixed board that sticks down in the water on the transom. Dragging a minnow bucket from the stern even helps the boat to track correctly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nlester, post: 277738, member: 8483"] I have found several designs using an Internet search. I haven't built one yet but plan to do it in the future. It is a common problem. If I leave my 2 hp motor in the water on the stern, my boat does a good job of tracking with the trolling motot on the front. When I go out without my outboard, I put up with the boat doing a sort of crab walk. I had not thought about a rudder until one day I was in water so shallow that I had to lift the outboard and the boat did not track correctly. If I build a rudder, it will not be for steering but and be fixed act like a keel board on the transom. It will clamp on like a trolling motor, will not have to be very big and will be able to be raised or kicked up as neede but really, all it need to do is be a fixed board that sticks down in the water on the transom. Dragging a minnow bucket from the stern even helps the boat to track correctly. [/QUOTE]
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