At 04:46 PM 5/23/00 -0800, Seng, Dave wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Williams [mailto:jwill_at_hiline.net] >> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 5:43 PM >> >> I fish a large area of sandbars called "flats". Has anyone >> ever replaced their rudder or augmented it with a trolling >> motor. I have a seakayak--not an ocean or "sit-on-top". I'd >aren't designed to take the type of stresses this will create. Reaching up >and behind you to steer will enhance your shoulder flexibility - or pay for >a year of your orthopedic surgeon's daughter tuition at Harvard Law. While I agree that a trolling motor sort of offends the purpose, I have once or twice thought about the little electric trolling motor that I think it is Wilderness Systems has available for the back end of the Pungo. I have heard of an elderly couple that likes to get out on moderately placid streams with this rig, and head upstream until the battery runs out, then paddle back downstream. One time, while thinking about this, I noted the empty rudder bracket on the back of my boat and got to thinking how it would be possible to mount a small trolling motor in this bracket, with some modifications, naturally, and then using rudder pedals and lines to steer the motor. I don't know how you'd handle the speed control, though. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 18:28:52 PDT
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