ideas on mounting my trolling motor?

crankbait09 · Feb 10, 2012

You will see in the photos, the view from the top and bottom as its mounted now. You can see that on the top view, the mounting hardware barely sits on the edge of the boat due to the underside of the boat. There is not a lot of support for the motor to hang on to.

Anyone have any advice on what I can add to this to support it 100%?

JamesM56alum · Feb 10, 2012

Id go buy a piece of alum an bolt it onto the lip sticking off an extend the rail out to give you more support, or possibly just drill into the rail an put a piece of 1 by 4 there an bolt it onto the rail with stainless steel fasteners

crabtree · Feb 10, 2012

Take it off, rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, put it back on.

crankbait09 · Feb 10, 2012

crabtree said:
Take it off, rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, put it back on.

never owned a boat before so this is all new, what will rotating the mount do?

JasonLester · Feb 10, 2012

Yeah I think what they mean is the clamps should be on the inside of the boat and the rounded part forward. Like it is but the motor sitting parallel to the top edge of the boat. And then the motor is in a stored position. It then should be able to be moved to the down position by moving a release.

Thats hard to explain I guess.

JasonLester · Feb 10, 2012

Just noticed your a neighbor...where abouts in Cincinnati?

JasonLester · Feb 10, 2012

Redfox03 · Feb 12, 2012

Cabela's actually sells a mount for transom mount trolling motors to be mounted on the bow. I was actually thinking about getting one last year.

spotco2 · Feb 12, 2012

If it was mine, I'd just screw a block of hardwood on the front rail of the boat and clamp the trolling motor to it.

JasonLester · Feb 13, 2012

Guys I think he has the motor in the stored position and is trying to mount it that way. If you look at the pics how many have you seen mounted like this. Think about an outboard and how it attaches. The screw clamps are inside the boat not on the edge. Then there is a way to unlock the thing and rotate it down into the water. I don't think there is a need to attach anything else in this case.

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