Just took a break and went out to look. The highest
point mine gets from the gunwale is 25". That arc
needs to be maintained pretty far forward, that is,
most of the way until it goes down into it locking
position. What I'm saying here is that it continues
almost that high until it gets far forward, then
falls almost vertical to it's locked position.

Thanks for taking the time to measure the arc of travel of your
trolling motor for me. I appreciate your effort in trying to help me.

Sound like sticking the railing out forward will not avoid the problem
because the arc of the trolling motor head needs to take up a lot of
room when we are moving it into trolling position.

At this point, I really don't have any good alternative that can help
me to get around with this problem:
- I can cut that part of the railing away. But this
surely looks odd.
- I can replace the railing with something really tall.
But this costs money and this obstructs my view.
- I can remove the entire railing. And I may as well
doing this. But this will be the last option.
- I can look around to see any trolling motor that takes
very little room to move it into trolling position.
But I am not keeping my hope high.

Sound like I should simply get rid of the railing. Oh well...

It's a Minn Kota All Terrain, 55# thrust.

I am looking for something slightly bigger than yours. This means if
yours won't fit. Mine likely won't fit either.

Jay Chan