Comments on: Brian Vickery’s W500 Fishing Kayak Electric Trolling Motor Setup, CA

By: kenneth Smith

kenneth Smith — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:09:02 +0000

Why not spend a few more dollars and get a salt water tolerant trolling motor.

By: Brian V

Brian V — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:03:07 +0000

Thanks for your recent observations, I just needed a stable platform.
It is still ” a work in progress”. When I can find the $ ,I will change to all 5/16ths aluminum instead of the 5/8ths plywood and 2x. As the arms swing to the side of the craft for transport , I found it nec. to have a thicker support at front, to support the weight of the pontoon [ 15 #s each].
Made the tip-up sailing rudder today. Mast and sail next weekend.
Cheers, Brian

By: Rox

Rox — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:49:02 +0000

Awesome.

Great job setting up your W500 with the trolling motor.

Nice job with the solid battery boxes, the less movement the better.

Pete,
Those batteries won’t go up much further in the hulls, plus you need to be able to access the batteries for switching power from one to the other when they run low
on their charge.

By: exer106

exer106 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:04:27 +0000

nicely crafted setup
is the shelf in the front for a tripod?

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:45:58 +0000

I would have positioned the batteries further into the hull tips, to free more storage room for other stuff in the cockpit, but it’s certainly an impressive rigging job.

Pete