On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 06:30:56 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:01:19 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

JAXAshby wrote:
Is there a rule a thumb for sizing an auxiliary trolling outboard.

What size would be needed for a 30ft 10,000 lb boat?

none that you can buy will move that boat in anything other than a flat calm
and no current, except in Port Fantasy in LaLaLand.

Bull****. There are plenty of heavy 30 foot boats around with outboard
trolling motors that can move right along. Some of these boats have 20
or 25 hp outboards...I suspect most of them move on the outboards
faster than your crappy little sailboat.

I found on the Contender that the small trolling motor was more of a
pain that it was worth. Hard to control and you had to keep switching
the main engines on/off to do what I wanted.

I just gave up on it and went with a single main running in trolling
situations.

That's what I do for the most part when I can tolerate trolling, which
isn't often. But in the Bay, the conditions usually are ok for an 8 or 9
hp trolling motor on a 25 foot boat...most of the guys just have an
extended handle on the outboard to steer it with, and buy the model with
electric trim/tilt. They troll for stripers, really slow, in relatively
unchallenging sea conditions. Many of the larger Gradys and Parkers
hereabouts have trolling motor brackets.

We used to do that when I was in high school. The school had two 18
foot Swampscott Dory's with engine wells - man, that was so cool -
whipping down the harbor in a flat bottomed dory standing up in the
bow to trim the boat with that long tiller stick attached to the 30 hp
engine handle.

Those were the days. :)

Later,

Tom
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