#925962 - 03/26/15 04:36 PM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
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River Nutrients
Registered: 04/25/00
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I'm a port, left hand tiller user........Now I'm a right hand person BUT if I try to control my tiller handle with my right hand....bad things happen...
My biggest gripe.....on most small kicker motors, the handle itself it not in the center.......it would make it MUCH BETTER to have tiller handle in the center of the motor....
Edited by DrifterWA (03/27/15 03:48 PM)
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#925966 - 03/26/15 05:52 PM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
[Re: DrifterWA]
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ExtenZe Field Tester
Registered: 11/10/09
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Loc: Vancouver, WA
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Starboard side is where most normal people put the kicker. However, there are those counter-intuitive types that will place the kicker on the port side. This is to declare their counter-intuitiveness to the world. And spell checker is happy.
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#925971 - 03/26/15 08:53 PM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 09/07/05
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Loc: Spokane WA
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Starboard, putting it on the port side can plant you in the middle of the boat in an awkward position. I don't ever need to move, I can turn off the main motor, drop the kicker and have it running before a port guy can even reposition (tiller).
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#925982 - 03/26/15 11:45 PM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
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#926001 - 03/27/15 10:00 AM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
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River Nutrients
Registered: 02/14/06
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Loc: Elma
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From a tiller boat, you are running up the river with your left hand on the tiller, you stop, fold up handle, the trolling motor should be right in front of you on the port side of your vessel. You won't need to turn around or step backwards to deploy.
However, it probably has more to do with your boat set up than anything. I have ran both ways, and never really thought about it.
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#926016 - 03/27/15 12:19 PM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
[Re: Rocket Red]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/15/00
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Loc: Olalla, WA
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Portly men put the kicker on the port side, duh Keeps the boat balanced
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#926033 - 03/27/15 07:14 PM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
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ExtenZe Field Tester
Registered: 11/10/09
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Loc: Vancouver, WA
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I think there's some crisis counseling needed here. This port side stuff is going pandemic.
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#926045 - 03/28/15 06:04 AM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
[Re: Moravec]
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Registered: 11/10/09
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Loc: Vancouver, WA
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Most in Washington and Canada rig Portside.
Most in Oregon rig Starboardside.
The gravitational force of OR convinces most in Vancouver to rig Starboardside as well.
Go to your bathroom, if your toilet flushes counter clockwise, rig it on the Starboard. Well, glad it's just the Vortex Effect and not some childhood trauma. Hmmm....wonder if the northern peoples use counter-rotating props as well ?
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#926063 - 03/28/15 11:21 AM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 09/07/05
Posts: 1867
Loc: Spokane WA
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Ill just say statisically guys in Washington install the kicker on the port side and those Oryigonians for some reason favor starboard. Guess it comes down to... are ya regular or goofy footed? Whetever feels natural to the strength of your planting position and wrist is the right way. Glen Wooldridge makes fun of me cuz im right handed and use my right hand for a tiller... what does he know anyway. I don't think center console guys should be allowed to comment.
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#926092 - 03/28/15 05:47 PM
Re: Trolling motor! What side??
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