Fishing

A trolling motor that suddenly loses power can make you think the motor itself has failed. Sometimes the real problem is much simpler: one weak battery in the system. If you run a 24V trolling motor from two 12V marine batteries, both batteries need to be healthy and properly charged for the system to perform…

Upgrading a boat to a Minn Kota PowerDrive with i-Pilot can make boat control much easier, but mounting a new trolling motor is not always as simple as swapping one set of holes for another. In this installation, we replaced an older MotorGuide trolling motor on a Tracker V-18 with a Minn Kota PowerDrive i-Pilot…