Got some x-mas cash from my wife and kids for a trolling motor for my boat. I want a Minnkota, and I found one from a sporting goods dealer that want $370 for a Maxxum 65BT-24V motor with a 42" shaft. I run a 16 foot crestliner and I am wondering if the 42" shaft is long enough. I want a 24 volt system and a 65# motor sounds about right to me.... anyone have some help for me? Is this a good deal or not? According to the HSOforum it is a demo and has a one year warranty......free shipping too......My real question I guess is how far under the water does the trolling motor need to go?
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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Got some x-mas cash from my wife and kids for a trolling motor for my boat. I want a Minnkota, and I found one from a sporting goods dealer that want $370 for a Maxxum 65BT-24V motor with a 42" shaft. I run a 16 foot crestliner and I am wondering if the 42" shaft is long enough. I want a 24 volt system and a 65# motor sounds about right to me.... anyone have some help for me? Is this a good deal or not? According to the HSOforum it is a demo and has a one year warranty......free shipping too......My real question I guess is how far under the water does the trolling motor need to go?
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