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Along the way a piece about the electric trolling motor [2010-08-29]

The canoe is a pleasure for us, especially these days when we bought a new Pathfinder 14 foot fiberglass-for-us-old, it is easy to see in one of our Toyota 13-feet long.And, perhaps, the freshwater trolling motor, I bought last year a man who told me that he had retired from fishing. Thus, the battery of 90 tons, which is located on the ground and offers canoe ballast hums quietly while the mercury trolling motors with us.

We tested the combination of last weekend on Lake Megunticook. We have only a stone does not know - as it happened - and turned a few. Of course, we have never lost in the nature of Maine, turned from time to time.

I bought the trailer for the retirement of a fisherman to feed our ironclad 18-foot aluminum, prepared by Grumman shortly after the Indians invented the birch bark. But we still have a pick-up, which is probably why I can never be accepted as a bona fide Maineiacs, so I had to rent every time we put the AC in the water. Even I have been silent, looking around a used truck.

After a "Duh" moment, there is nothing like Uncle Henry at the time of ignition.

Online Uncle Henry showed us several small vessels, and is more promising than others. The owner even brought him to our house in Windsor. So we have the Pathfinder.

We put him in a state of the public, because Megunticook dock near the exit. I acted in a position to cope with the heavy battery, heavy, about to go through without your Pathfinder is down, and fix the motor on the near side of the stern. Pathfinder is not a square stern.

Once achieved, it led to the lake and were pleasantly surprised by the calm, surprised that we moved - again without the kids, who - through the water. Not far from the launch site, we managed to bounce off a submerged rock. The rocks of the lake are visible or marked, so I'm not sure what it was all on the rebound. I fear only more tar, * but not flush and no motor boats or damaged.

We found moving around with us. I woke up a lot of experience with the canoe, was the target of the bow as straight as possible so she would not take me by the hand. You wonder how the electric motor would face such an eventuality, I must of course Pathfinder. We slid down, just wave us.

Here, the electric motor is not better than my palette. He did not say how objective Pathfinder. We looked along the coast, where the network should have been, but not seen.

If you are out of supplies in his canoe with electric motor on a sunny afternoon with electricity and everything is perfect, except that you can not find where the animal approaches you, why does it panic?

We have been so good, no compass, no GPS, no cries for help. We have examined carefully and took the lead and do not bounce off the same cliff.

We ended up slightly against the platform and took the motor, battery, and the rest of the things we carry in a boat and put the Pathfinder on the dock.

their alignment with the LL Bean company Canoeing lasted about 15 minutes, then began to hold Cellar Door, about a five minutes drive.What could be better? A wine in the evening after a pleasant journey in the Pathfinder with a calm, a powerful engine for boat wakes enough-for-us-and-the-electric.