No gas motor. This one, at least for the immediate future, is going to be purely electric-only. At some point I'll get a small tiller controled gas motor for use on some of the larger Corp of Engineers/Georgia Power lakes, but most of the lakes in my immediate vicinity (100 to 850 acre lakes) are electric-only ---- you can't even have a gas motor anywhere on your boat, much less actually use one! I know I'm fine with the 24 volt 70 Lb motor on the bow, but I'm concerned with whether or not a 24 volt 80 Lb motor will have enough push to adequately propel a boat this size (I have no idea what she weighs, but she's 17.5' long with a 78" beam and will have most of the usual "bass" boat compartments, livewells, etc but NO fuel tank, gas motor, or steering mechanism/console. She WILL have at least 2 trolling motors and I'm figuring on 2 type-29 batteries per motor, plus 2 more for running lights, livewell aerator, bilge pump, fish finders, etc so figure on 6 batteries on board.)

Luckily for me, I work for a major deep-cycle battery manufacturer (Trojan), so the cost of batteries is a non-issue for me! (I knew eventually SOMETHING good would come out of this job!)