On Sep 4, 12:10*pm, hk wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming:

I've been thinking of changing my Bay Ranger's *bow mount trolling
motor over to wireless control for some time now. *After discussing it
offline with another poster, I actually had the chance to mess around
with one this morning on a Skeeter 22i with a 250 VMax Yamaha.

Motorguide makes several models of wireless trolling motors - the one
I was using was the W75 freshwater version with the handheld
controller (there is also a foot controller).

As I was running up the boat for the dealer, I got to thinking if, say
just for giggles, I could use the trolling motor as a bow thruster
from the steering station on the Skeeter.

It worked and pretty well I might add. *It took a little testing time
to get it right, but you can make the boat move exactly sideways. *At
the marina where I returned the boat, there was some dock space to put
the Skeeter in, so after practicing a little bit, I put the boat
exactly between two boats with little effort.

I know it sounds silly, but that could be a handy little feature
inshore if you have a bunch of boats sitting or drifting on top of a
rock pile or school of fish. *Those of us who have been in crowded
situations like that might be able to use that "side step" feature to
advantage.

The Skeeter, by the way, is a really nice boat - up until this
morning, I hadn't been out on one of the new ones, in particular the i
series - pretty good little boat.

~~ crossposted to boatingforum:http://tinyurl.com/69bzhy~~

Wow...crossposted. Well, that's one way to get a boating post over
there. *Good Job, Brownie.- Hide quoted text -

But earlier, hk wrote: "As for rec.boats, anytime there is any effort
to push it back on topic,
the slimeballs I mentioned push it off the cliff."

Hello there, slimeball.

~snerk~