MotorGuide PTSv

[wdue]

Has anyone used a MotorGuide PTSv tracking trolling motor? It sounds great but I hate to spend $1600.00 for a trolling motor. Any advice?

[Bud_in_OR]

I have a Pin-Point, the original version before Motor Guide bought them out. Had mine for three years with no problems. I was dancing in the boat when Motor Guide jumped in. Pin Point was a small company in Central Calif. and I was sweating them going belly-up and leaving me with a broken/unfixable toy. Having said that,...

The tracking motor is the best piece of fishing gear I've ever purchased. I pitch to the bank with the setting at twenty feet, it follows it unerringly never varying more than a foot in or out. If I find fish on 22' breaks on points, the Pin Point never misses a beat while keeping me over 22', all around the point. I want to fish a channel edge in the middle of the reservoir, I push the 'channel track' button and the boat will track the channel edge until I run into the dam. It does all this while compensating, automatically, for wind and current. And, if I want to follow the same structure, in the opposite direction, I punch a blue button on the foot-pad and I go back over the exact same structure breaks.

If mine ever breaks, I would refinance with my first-born son to get another!!

Caveat!!! You're talking $1600. I paid $2200 for the motor/sonar combo. I would hope that they have improved the sonar in the few years since I bought mine. I bought the top of the line and it isn't worth ten cents compared to a Lowrance.

Bud