Prime Time at Willard

[Paddler]

To follow up with what Bob said asking if your gas kicker was pushing you too fast at idle, but you still want to steer with electric while conserving battery, don’t forget you can slow speed from kicker even at idle if you make your kicker less effective.
One way is to use a lower numerically numbered prop.
But the easiest way to shave a few tenths from kicker speed is to simply make your kicker less effective by trimming it up so that prop is not pushing you straight forward anymore.
Just be mindful to watch tattle-tell that you are not robbing your kicker of precious cooling water.

Or one could just take the kicker out of gear.  It should still put out enough amps to keep your bow mount batteries charged?  You might even get a bit of push due to the through prop exhaust. 

I don't have either, but have Mercury's Troll Control for my main, which allows me to increase or decrease my main in 10RPM increments.  If I keep it at 660RPM it keeps my battery a bit over 13V.  That puts me at about 2.5-2.6MPH.  Any slower than that requires drift socks.