I have a 21 foot boat with a mercruiser. Very close to the house, we
have a forest preserve with a nice little lake. The trouble is, they
do not allow gasoline motors to be operated. I might consider buying a
trolling motor to troll around. The question is, is a trolling motor
enough to push a 21 foot boat against wind? Mine does not have a very
high profile, it is a cuddy cabin type of boat.

i


My guess is that it would be a waste of money. I have a 21 ' boat and have a 5
hp kicker that doesn't do a whole lot against the wind. If I was 20 miles
offshore and lost the engine I'd have a real llooooonnnnggg ride back in
against any wind over 5 knots. I consider my kicker just barely better than
nothing.

Barry

"F330 GT" wrote ...
My guess is that it would be a waste of money. I have a 21 ' boat and have
a 5
hp kicker that doesn't do a whole lot against the wind. If I was 20 miles
offshore and lost the engine I'd have a real llooooonnnnggg ride back in
against any wind over 5 knots. I consider my kicker just barely better
than
nothing.

Having been around 8 nm offshoe with a dead engine, I would have loved to
have a 5 hp kicker... Of course, I can't figure out a way to mount that on
my jet boat since it doesn't have that sort of transom... At that point, I
would have settled for some oars and oar locks...

I have a 21 foot boat with a mercruiser. Very close to the house, we
have a forest preserve with a nice little lake. The trouble is, they
do not allow gasoline motors to be operated. I might consider buying a
trolling motor to troll around. The question is, is a trolling motor
enough to push a 21 foot boat against wind? Mine does not have a very
high profile, it is a cuddy cabin type of boat.

i


I have a 55# Minn Kota on a pontoon boat. Even in a stiff wind, it can move
the pontoon boat ahead on full power. Your hull will have more drag than a
pontoon boat, but the pontoon boat catches a lot of wind.




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Ignoramus31468 wrote in message ra.com...
I have a 21 foot boat with a mercruiser. Very close to the house, we
have a forest preserve with a nice little lake. The trouble is, they
do not allow gasoline motors to be operated. I might consider buying a
trolling motor to troll around. The question is, is a trolling motor
enough to push a 21 foot boat against wind? Mine does not have a very
high profile, it is a cuddy cabin type of boat.

I had a 19.5 foot 'bass boat' before and It's trolling motor
would barely hold it in the wind. And it had a 12/24v system
that was switchable. if it was really windy, you had to
use the 24v. It wasn't much use for getting around the lake,
just manevering around the fishing spots.

I would think that a trolling motor on a 21ft with a cuddy
cabin would be a waste of money in the wind. Even with no
wind the weight of your boat would make it dead slow, even
with at $400 trolling motor and dual batteries.

If you want to use a trolling motor on that lake, take whatever
money you had planned on using for a huge trolling motor for
your 21ft cuddy-cabin and purchase a 12'-14' "John-boat". It'll
work great with a trolling motor. They are pretty cheap,
especially used. I've seen them for as cheap as $50-$100
with no motor or trailer. a trolling motor for these are
pretty lightweight and can be bought at wal-mart.

It's not a 'cuddy cabin' by using the JOhn boat, but if you
put a trolling motor on that 21ft boat, you'll never get
more than a few hundred yards away from the boat ramp,
so the john boat will do fine in that area, and more.

or heck. buy a canoe.

-mike

I used 3 trolling motors ($99 dollar variety from Wal-Mart) to move my
37' 12 ton sailboat about 1/4 mile up river. They pushed it 2-3 knots
with good control in light air.

I'm going to remove the outboard from my 24' pontoon camper and use the
three trolling motors with the controls move to the helm. This for
inland waters of coarse with a big anchor on deck for storms.

Ron

On 28 Jul 2003 18:41:30 GMT, Ignoramus31468
wrote:

I have a 21 foot boat with a mercruiser. Very close to the house, we
have a forest preserve with a nice little lake. The trouble is, they
do not allow gasoline motors to be operated. I might consider buying a
trolling motor to troll around. The question is, is a trolling motor
enough to push a 21 foot boat against wind? Mine does not have a very
high profile, it is a cuddy cabin type of boat.

i

Match the motor to the boat.

A small trolling motor will probably disappoint you, but there are
models with a little "muscle". Go online and check out the different
manufacturers. I bought a MinnKota "salt water" for use on my
freshwater I/O, and have been very happy with it.
noah

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"Ignoramus31468" wrote in message
a.com...
I have a 21 foot boat with a mercruiser. Very close to the house, we
have a forest preserve with a nice little lake. The trouble is, they
do not allow gasoline motors to be operated. I might consider buying a
trolling motor to troll around. The question is, is a trolling motor
enough to push a 21 foot boat against wind? Mine does not have a very
high profile, it is a cuddy cabin type of boat.

How much do you want to spend? I have a 20 foot center console
with a T-top that is fairly heavy - the trolling motor took me ten miles
up the Thames River against the tide when my Evinrude lost the spark
timing. It's a 24 volt Motoguide Great White producing 67 pounds
of thrust - works great. Saved my butt on that trip.

It probably won't do well with a 12 volt 40 pound "special".

I have a 21 foot boat with a mercruiser. Very close to the house, we
have a forest preserve with a nice little lake. The trouble is, they
do not allow gasoline motors to be operated. I might consider buying a
trolling motor to troll around. The question is, is a trolling motor
enough to push a 21 foot boat against wind? Mine does not have a very
high profile, it is a cuddy cabin type of boat.

Depending on how much freeboard your boat has will effect this alot. On
my 21 crownline cuddy I would not even try it. There may be more
powerful trolling motors out there then I think . :-)

Capt Jack R.