Trolling Motor Rudder

[obifishkenobi]

I've been thinking of how to add one to my trolling motor.

Yours looks really good and gives me some good ideas. Thanks

There is a guy in Cal that makes a really nice one that does not use clamps to add on the rudder, it uses existing holes, if you have a transducer built into your motor and I think one hole goes in the existing rudder but it's all welded up and painted black, it looks really good. Rileyfish and 2knots have them, maybe one of them will take a pic of theirs and post it. Not sure if the price has changed but it seems to me they cost around $180.

I have been wanting to put a trolling motor skag extension on my boat since seeing one on Rocky Mountain Tackles boat several years ago, but I didn’t want to spend the $100 to buy one. So when my coworker started telling me about his 3D printer and seeing components he made for a guys home made jaw jacker it got my brain going on designing a bracket and he printed it for me and I found a scrap piece of aluminum and the pictures below are what I came up with. I got to test it a couple weeks ago at Jordanelle and found that I can steer the boat without running the trolling motor which will greatly exstend the life of my batteries on multi day trips. I even stress tested it on accident when I got up on plain after forgetting to pull up the trolling motor, it held up fine. I have less than $10 in hose clamps and stainless steal nuts and bolts into it.

Compared to the price I was quoted above that is awesome you can make one yourself for that price. How thick was the aluminum for the blade you used? Where did you find the piece that goes up against the round part of the motor?