poor mans sticksteer

[ifish4redd]

I got bad feet so the platform is out.So here what Is did to my tracker jon boat.

[Percidae_Papermouth]

That scares the heck out of me! Lol

[ifish4redd]

Why?

[Percidae_Papermouth]

I don't know, maybe because my mom was nearly killed when she was run over by a boat with a broken steering linkage.

Hey if your comfortable with it it's an awesome idea. I'd love to have a stick drive boat, I wouldn't ever have to get out of the seat.

[ifish4redd]

cable steering used for 50 yrs ,before the new type sys.with a lot bigger motors.the cables are steel plastic coated

[undertheradar]

All the watermen I know have big crabbing boats have an oar with crab pot line rigged exactly like this. I dont blame ya for taking out the platform.

[undertheradar]

oh and the bigfoot switch for the TM is how mine is rigged. I love it. Leave it in forward at your fav speed, have bigfoot switch in momentary, just tap it when ya need it. Looks like a crappie catching machine to me!

[inlovewithsurfin]

thats a pretty ingenious design youve got there! good job!!!

[Corker]

All the watermen I know...rigged exactly like this.

That's how I learned to do it in the 60s. The only difference was these large work boats all had inboard motors and the steering rig only had to control a rudder.

[Texas Pete]

pretty slick!

Mike