daytripper wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
daytripper wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
I bought a Torqeedo for the lean, mean, muskie chasing machine
(an 18 ft Grumman canoe) ...
$1500! Holy crapola! You're certainly correct about that!
Yeah, it's not cheap but you don't have to buy and recycle a
$200 deep cycle marine battery every other year. Besides, it's
a cool, new gadget and I'm a total sucker for cool, new gadgets.

$200? Must've been cool, new - and gold plated ;-)

The last group 24 deep cycle battery I bought - in 2007 - cost $70 after the
credit for returning the battery it replaced. And I usually get 3 years out of
them by keeping them on a float charger in my basement work shop, and minding
the electrolyte level.

Otoh, if I was into honest to god wood strip canoes, I *might* also be tempted
to drop $1500 on a trolling motor - although I gotta say that combination
sounds sacrilegious ;-)

That combination *is* sacrilegious, I would *never*, *EVER* put
a trolling motor of any sort on my cedar strip canoe. My 18 foot
Grumman is a 95 lb beast of an ancient aluminum canoe bequeathed
to me by my grandfather. It's now known as the lean, mean, muskie
chasing machine and portable, traveling duck blind. I cannot
believe I used to heave that thing on my shoulders and portage it
all over the Boundary Waters/Quetico. It now lives on a trailer,
has detachable pontoons, a casting/shooting platform and a Torqeedo.
I thought about adding a depthfinder but you gotta draw a line
somewhere. ;-)

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Ken Fortenberry