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How to mount trolling motor on bow of 12' Jon
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<blockquote data-quote="bobberboy" data-source="post: 353228" data-attributes="member: 1417"><p>The block I used was attached to the structural piece that was at the front of the boat. Whatever it's called was about 3" wide and I made a block of the PVC material I had used elsewhere in the boat and clamped the TM to it. To tell the truth, the whole affair didn't work all that well. Having the TM on the bow may have made me think I looked like one of the players out on the lake but even that was iffy. The beauty of the bow mounted TM is that it is controlled by the operator from virtually anywhere in the boat. Putting a transom mounted motor on the bow means in order to operate it you have to be sitting all the way in the front and even with an extension handle it just too much weight up there. With just me in the boat trying to operate the TM the stern came up pretty high and it was just plain hard to control. Unless you have a really compelling reason to put your transom mount motor in front, I don't really think it's worth the trouble.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://s876.photobucket.com/user/krame023/media/TMmount.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab322/krame023/TMmount.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobberboy, post: 353228, member: 1417"] The block I used was attached to the structural piece that was at the front of the boat. Whatever it's called was about 3" wide and I made a block of the PVC material I had used elsewhere in the boat and clamped the TM to it. To tell the truth, the whole affair didn't work all that well. Having the TM on the bow may have made me think I looked like one of the players out on the lake but even that was iffy. The beauty of the bow mounted TM is that it is controlled by the operator from virtually anywhere in the boat. Putting a transom mounted motor on the bow means in order to operate it you have to be sitting all the way in the front and even with an extension handle it just too much weight up there. With just me in the boat trying to operate the TM the stern came up pretty high and it was just plain hard to control. Unless you have a really compelling reason to put your transom mount motor in front, I don't really think it's worth the trouble. [url=https://s876.photobucket.com/user/krame023/media/TMmount.jpg.html][img]https://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab322/krame023/TMmount.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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