06-17-2010, 08:12 PM
[quote TroutNoDoubt]One of the toon manf used to carry an accessory keel that was supposed to help the tracking when being pushed by a motor. It looked like a rounded rectangle of sheet plastic or aluminum mounted on a piece of metal tubing. Anyone have any experience with those and know whether they work? I tried rear mounting a Minnkota on the back of a very old Bucks Apline. Man, that thing had no directional stability. Just zigged and zagged all over the place. Real hassle reaching over my head to steer it. Front mounting makes a lot of sense.
For those that front-mount their motors, do you reverse the polarity on your battery connections to reverse the prop direction? This would effectively to use the allow "forward" settings/speeds to pull the toon rather than the "reverse" settings.
Bob[/quote]
This one:
http://www.store.northforkoutdoors.com/i...ucts_id=60
It works .....okay, that is why they are discontinuing it.
I had a motor on the back of my 6' Alpine and that thing tracked beautifully and could turn on a dime...."WITH my feet in the water and fins".
Some still run the motor on the front.
Down side to that as I see it...that is where my $100 line is, and as C pointed out, takes much less juice to PULL then to push.
I prefer to go backwards. Buy turning the head around, you have all the forward gears to pull you and the reverse to push you.
Plus, on steep banks, the motor in the rear allows me to come in nose first and step on the bank.
I have never heard of anyone reversing the polarity, but anything is possible. No set rules, just the old been there and done it thing[
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For those that front-mount their motors, do you reverse the polarity on your battery connections to reverse the prop direction? This would effectively to use the allow "forward" settings/speeds to pull the toon rather than the "reverse" settings.
Bob[/quote]
This one:
http://www.store.northforkoutdoors.com/i...ucts_id=60
It works .....okay, that is why they are discontinuing it.
I had a motor on the back of my 6' Alpine and that thing tracked beautifully and could turn on a dime...."WITH my feet in the water and fins".
Some still run the motor on the front.
Down side to that as I see it...that is where my $100 line is, and as C pointed out, takes much less juice to PULL then to push.
I prefer to go backwards. Buy turning the head around, you have all the forward gears to pull you and the reverse to push you.
Plus, on steep banks, the motor in the rear allows me to come in nose first and step on the bank.
I have never heard of anyone reversing the polarity, but anything is possible. No set rules, just the old been there and done it thing[
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