bassmasta7 Posted March 7, 2006 Posted March 7, 2006 My local lakes are electric only and I was thinking about selling my Johnson outboard motor to help buy a couple trolling motors. I was wondering if anyone else has electric only boat that they have a couple trolling motors on. (anyone interest in a '72 40hp johnson recently rebuilt) Quote
Super User Gatorbassman Posted March 7, 2006 Super User Posted March 7, 2006 OH man have you come to the right place. Many of us fish trolling motor only lakes. Randall is a guide on several of them. Triton Mike just finished the mack-daddy of all electric boats. www.tritonmike.com/boat.html Me, senko77, roper400, buzzbaitfool12, just to name a few. Check out some of the threads in this section of the forum. We have been talking alot about it lately. It is a fun project and worth every penny. I have my boat rigged so I can easily take my electric motors off and replace them with a 8hp Merc. Where do you live? What lakes do you fish? Quote
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted March 7, 2006 Posted March 7, 2006 I still don't get it guys,...all the science so far says all you are gaining with extra T/M's is,.....weight + wake. Quote
bassmasta7 Posted March 7, 2006 Author Posted March 7, 2006 I live in Fayetteville, Ga. So I fish Lake Kedron, Lake Peachtree, and Lake Horton. All are good and different lakes. I am 16 yr old and i bought my first boat last year for $650 with the trailer. It is 15ft and has a 40hp Johnson on it. The Johnson was rebuilt a year before I bought it. The people I bought it from bought it used but they never used it. We tested the motor and the only thing that needed a little work was the choke. Unfortunately the closest gas lake is Westpoint so I will probably never use the big motor. However, I go every weekend during the school year to either Kedron or Peachtree (not horton as much) and during summer almost every day. I took it out yesterday and one of the batteries finally died over winter but the other one works fine. I am getting a job though so there will be money to fund the project. Quote
bassmasta7 Posted March 7, 2006 Author Posted March 7, 2006 Cool, Just read the post about Triton Mike's sweet boat. If I understand LBH correctly, he is saying not only am i adding about 10mph per trolling motor I add, but I am also gaining the ability to pull a small aircraft carrier. Sweet. Quote
buzzbaitfool12 Posted March 7, 2006 Posted March 7, 2006 Lbh I have two 54 lb thrust motors on the back of mine...When i kick the big foot on one side it goes and when i kick the big foot on the other side it goes even faster. The more trolling motors and lb thrust you have your boat will go faster.. I was going to buy the briggs and stratton etek electric motor but the tiller model comes in 15 in and not 20..need 20..electrik outboard..When we fish in the HVBA tourneys those guys with three trolling motors on back blow by most..It does make a difference... If you have the money I would buy the electric only ..it cost 1500..trolling motors are not meant to be power source..they are meant to troll..Going to look at the minn kota electric and the ray eletrick.. Quote
Travlin_Man Posted March 7, 2006 Posted March 7, 2006 Just remember to look at the battery recomendations for the " electric outboards" I think that you will find that they say 6 volt golf cart batteries, thats 8 batteries for a 48 volt system. Many pounds to drag around the lake. remember the batteries weigh the same at the end of the day when they are depleted . With electric power you are operating as a displacement hull , totally different parameters than a planing hull. Good luck Quote
senko_77 Posted March 7, 2006 Posted March 7, 2006 yea russ, i have to agree with buzzbaitfool12, the guys with 3 tm's on the back of the boat always blow by everyone else. bassmasta, im 16 to and have a boat. when you get those trollin motors rigged up, why dont you fish some tournaments with us! www.highvoltagebassanglers.com its an all electric tourny trail with lakes all in the metro atlanta area. it would be awesome to have another kid there. im the youngest there by probably 15 years. also, i am lookin for someone to fish the tournies with me this year. if your interested in fishin some with me, drop me a pm. i push my boat with 3 55's. two hand coltrolled motors in the back, and a foot control in the front. how big is your boat, width etc?? Ryan Quote
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted March 7, 2006 Posted March 7, 2006 bring a gps with you, anyone,please! Check your actual speed, you are not going "faster", you are "pushing more water" so it sounds and seems faster. bring a gps, check your actual speed, you will be surprised. Quote
Randall Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 bring a gps with you, anyone,please!Check your actual speed, you are not going "faster", you are "pushing more water" so it sounds and seems faster. bring a gps, check your actual speed, you will be surprised. Actual speed depends on a lot of different variables. LBH is both right and wrong depending on the length and weight of the boat, hull style, number of batteries used, weight of contents of the boat, type of trolling motor etc. I have done speed tests on different boats to help myself as well as some buddys decide how to set up boats. From research and actual tests this is what I have found to be the facts. Each boat has a hull speed which is the fastest theoretical speed that a boat can achieve with out getting on plane. To get this speed you multiply the hull length by a number (which I cant recall right now). I do know that a 14 foot boat can reach a hull speed of around 5mph and a 16 foot boat can reach around 6mph. But you also have to keep in mind the other variables such as a v-hull will be faster than a flat bottom jonboat and two 50 lb motors will not be faster than one 82lb thrust motor since the pitch of the props are different and the motors put out different RPMs. With all that being said I could give different situations and give you close to the best way to set it up. But back to the LBH comment. If you put two 16 foot semi-v hull boats with six group 29 batteries going down the lake side by side and one has three 82lb motors and the other has four the one with four will be faster. I know this because in our first tournament this year we were running side by side for about 3/4 of a mile with a boat that was set up with six batteries and three 82lb motors. We turned our fourth motor on and slowly but steadily pulled away from them so they couldnt get the spot we were going to. For the recreational angler that extra motor is really probably a waste of money but if you need to beat someone to a spot two miles away its a big difference. I have also done the GPS and the extra motor made a difference of around one mph. It was a difference between five and six mph. If you didnt have another boat right next to you or have a gps you wouldnt know the difference. There is a big difference between two and three motors though and you can tell the difference. Quote
Randall Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 I live in Fayetteville, Ga. So I fish Lake Kedron, Lake Peachtree, and Lake Horton. All are good and different lakes. I am 16 yr old and i bought my first boat last year for $650 with the trailer. It is 15ft and has a 40hp Johnson on it. The Johnson was rebuilt a year before I bought it. The people I bought it from bought it used but they never used it. We tested the motor and the only thing that needed a little work was the choke. Unfortunately the closest gas lake is Westpoint so I will probably never use the big motor. However, I go every weekend during the school year to either Kedron or Peachtree (not horton as much) and during summer almost every day. I took it out yesterday and one of the batteries finally died over winter but the other one works fine. I am getting a job though so there will be money to fund the project. If you can afford it I would get a Minn Kota Maxxum 74 variable on the front first and then add motors and batteries as you want more speed and distance out of the boat. I fish both Kedron and Lake Peachtree most of the time with one 44lb motor on the back and one 82lb on the front because the lakes are small and this is the most efficent set-up out of the motors I have. When I fish Horton I want more batteries and motors since the lake is larger. Quote
Triton_Mike Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 What Randall said other than the Maxxum 74 I'd get the Motor Guide Tour edition ~~~ Mike Quote
bassmasta7 Posted March 9, 2006 Author Posted March 9, 2006 What is the advantage of having the larger motor up front??? And how much do you think I could get for old but recently rebuilt Johnson 40hp outboard?? Quote
bassmasta7 Posted March 9, 2006 Author Posted March 9, 2006 Sorry, it is a 1985 Johnson 50hp outboard. Quote
Swampfishing Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 I agree with LBH here, unless you actually lift the hull out of the water and plane it, there is a Max hull speed a flat bottem boat can achieve. Quote
buzzbaitfool12 Posted March 9, 2006 Posted March 9, 2006 I agree..my two 54lbs thrust gets dusted by three trolling motors in our tourneys... Quote
bassmasta7 Posted March 9, 2006 Author Posted March 9, 2006 I talked to my dad about it and he agreed to sell the motor. i was looking on the internet at trolling motors and such and then I saw the 3hp briggs and stratton 150lb of thrust electric outboard. With all the batteries I will need, it will probably cost $2200. I was thinkin to do that and just suffer this year with my 40lb tm. Plus if I get that motor off of the boat it will probably go a little faster. Does anyone have this electric outboard or the minn kota version (which is a lot more expensive)? Quote
buzzbaitfool12 Posted March 10, 2006 Posted March 10, 2006 I was going to buy the briggs and stratton over the minn kota. the minn kota has to have a steering with it. meaning you need steering base. The tiller model of the briggs and stratton only comes in 15 inch transom depth. I need 20 and there 20inc is steering also...I would buy tiller b and s motor if i could..Ryan Quote
Travlin_Man Posted March 10, 2006 Posted March 10, 2006 You may find this informative . http://www.bassfishingnetwork.com/articles/phelix.html Quote
bassmasta7 Posted March 13, 2006 Author Posted March 13, 2006 I am probably not going to buy the electric motor any more because the tm only lake i live on allows people to use motors if you live on the lake. I know people that live on the lake and they said they would give me their sticker so i could use the gas motor. Quote
Team_Dougherty Posted March 14, 2006 Posted March 14, 2006 Here are some heavy duty electric outboards. Prices are not to bad either. http://www.outboardelectric.org Paul Quote
bassmasta7 Posted March 14, 2006 Author Posted March 14, 2006 Wow those electric motors were developed by the navy and they have the thrust equivalent to 9hp gas outboard. Dang. But I dont have enough money. Quote
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