bought another electric motor (trolling)

[MetroMPG]

Yeah, breezy conditions made for interesting times with mine too.

What's the rating on your motor? Thrust lbs? Looks similar to mine in size.

[skewbe]

I'm guessing 10lbs, top speed won't be much but it should run for a while even without many speeds to choose from. Might get interesting if I take the canoe on the metro then use the metro battery to run the canoe, i.e. park on a large hill and cross fingers

[MetroMPG]

Well considering I ran mine almost exclusively on the lowest power setting (1 out of 4, where 4 = 17 lbs), I'm guessing it was delivering probably more like 5 lbs.

Unfortunately, I don't have a boat suitable to use it now. The canoe I used it on came with the cottage we rented in July.

[MetroMPG]

Forgot to mention that I did a rough calculation of top speed on flat water with no wind, and it was something around 8 km/h (5 mph).

[MetroMPG]

The gas motor on the 24 foot sailboat that I race on gave up the ghost on Tuesday, so I brought down the Minn Kota and the old starting batt from the ForkenSwift for last night's race.