Okay, I probably should quit...A
When you are over 70, things that were easy 25 years ago become very difficult. For example, just to get into my boat from a dock is a problem. I have to sit on the dock and then crawl into the boat
Then there is the trolling motor. I have a Minn Kota Power Volt with the copilot remote. It takes a major effort to deploy the thing but pulling it up and stowing it is not only hard for me, it is dangerous. I have to crawl on hands and knees and try to lift the shaft vertically enough to tilt it back. After that the only way to stow the motor is to use my cane to pull it up on the mount.
So be it, if that is what it takes to be able just to get on the water, by golly I'll do it!
But here is the question...
I just saw a You Tube video of the Minn Kota Ulterra... Wow! That trolling motor would solve a lot of my problems and let me stay on the lake and fish for little while longer.
Does this thing actually work in the real world???
Does anybody here have one???
What problems are there with the product???
Even the refurbbed ones are worth almost as much as my boat, so any help or advice is appreciated.
More bad news from Minn Kota
The Ulterra Saga continues. Got the motor and installed it (which turned out to be a problem). Once that was done, it tried to deploy but stopped at 45 degrees. I kept messing with it and got it to stow but nothing else. The Customer Service people kept telling me it was most likely low voltage but the batteries load tested fine and I had 24V+ at the plug in. I had to take the motor off the boat and drive it 50 miles to the service center. They found a pinch in the power cable and replaced it and it checked out OK.
Back at home I put the motor back on the boat... and it would deploy but the ipilot remote would not recognize the motor (or vice versa). More useless calls to customer service where the answer they tried to give me was that I was doing something wrong. Bottom line back to the service center up at Mexico MO. This time I took the boat and left it for a couple of hours. Answer, the board in the head of the motor is bad and the part is on order.
That was on Wed. before Memorial day. I expected a call by the next Wed. but no joy there so I called only to find out that my circuit board was not the only one bad. In fact there was so many bad ones that when they checked the ones on hand, they were all bad. Now it is looking like it might be weeks before they can get their supplier to build new boards.
Bottom line $2,200+ a big pain, and I still don't have a working TM.