Watched your video at 10:30am and after shopping for parts and installation we were on the water by 5pm. Even made a grocery run during one of my breaks. Thank you for this video!
@@cynnaolsen633 We used all thread and washers thru the same openings. If you send me an email toni@apogeeLLC.net, I'll send you photos. We've never had a problem with it leaking.
I put a motor on the back, kept the peddles. Put a canopy on it too. All you gotta do is wrap some sheet metal on the back. Plenty strong for a trolling motor. Took five minutes, and have used it several times. You don't have to remove peddles or the rudder! Here's the video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WRmSpWP-Yzo.html
*I bought this model for my 14 ft Jon boat. **enjoyable.fishing** recommend love it!!! It pushes my boat with ease ( 2 men 220 each). I would highly recommend this to anyone.*
Brilliant brother! GREAT video - I'm going to HD tomorrow to get the parts, etc to do this for my grandkids! Thank you. BTW, I bet if you sold the parts as a kit, you would some real $$$.
Dangdodge: Thank you for this video. I converted my paddle boat to electric but I ran into some issues. My boat has a narrower space between the hull and so when I installed the motor, the prop would hit the hull if I turned the trolling motor left or right. I had to set up, using clamps, the trolling motor so I couldn't use it for motoring until it was below the hull or if I had the trolling motor facing straight forward. The clamps work great because when I come to shore, I pull the motor up an fasten the clamp. Also, I used a wood dowel rod instead of steel. Everything else worked fine. It was fun engineering the minor differences between yours and mine but the video was the encouragement to undertake the project. I will be using it on smaller lakes to fish along the shoreline. One other note: I also mounted two oars on the paddle boat using clamps and installed oarlocks. I hope I never have to use them but they are handy just in case the battery goes dead or the motor quits.
Nice job! I have a paddle boat I want to put the motor on the back. Im planning on putting the motor right in front of the rudder. Your work is helping me with the part of drilling and adding the floor plate and PVC pipe. Mine will be fixed and the rudder will actually work. Similar as the motorized version of this paddle boat as I have seen pics of where the motor goes. Thanks! By the way what size PVC pipe?
Did you ever build it? I understand if you build it this way (motor fixed in front of the existing rudder like original design) the battery should be placed in front to balance. Also seems like a pain trying to transplant the motor controls up front by the existing steering.
@@InfinityVision I went the easy route as I got a trolling motor from a friend. I mounted a 2x8 piece of wood at the rear as a transom. Clamp on the trolling motor and hook up the battery and off I go! Love it and all so easy too.
Lol rig mine up. Stupid thing keeps breaking. It was left on the property a few years ago. Now I know why. Loved paddle boating. Good exercise. Just a man made lake behind the house but it's good to sit in the middle of it. The steering broke and I had to drift back to the house. So embarrassing in front of the neighbors lol
Why didn’t you put the pipe through the hole for the pedal shaft? I know it’s offset so the shaft doesn’t hit the rudder steering arm but surely you could have used a slightly shorter downturn to allow a 90 degree elbow setup. I feel like there must have been something else preventing you from doing it this way since you designed a nice setup.
This video has my gears spinning! You could take the motor, and attach it to the rear, while at the same time attaching it to the rudder steering pole, while replacing the steering handle with the motors handle. Same thing as this boat, just with rear-motor drive.
Downfall in order to go forward to trolling motor has to be in reverse another thing way too much PVC but the trolling motor on the back of the get rid of the rudders and the thanks and everything the trolling motor you want do use needs to have feet pedals so you can control the speed with your feet and not your the same bar that turned your rudder you can now hook up to the trolling motor and use that to turn the doing it this way you will get a tighter turn with the boat plus having the shaft where it can't move like that if you hit a stump destroy your motor
What an ingeniously awesome idea!!! U R the man!!! Just seen a free paddle boat on Craigslist, it has a broken paddle, and wallah, I found U!!! Hope it's s5ill available, lol.. I'll B back(in my fake ass Arnold voice, lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I just found an old pedal boat already missing the pedal drive train. Thanks for making the video and for the great idea! My kid is going to be stoked!
Thank you so much for the video. How does the prop sit below the boat? I am assuming that there is no way for it to be easily taken off every time you take it out of the water, so do you have any tips on how to store and transport it with the prop dangling below?
I wanna do the same to my paddle boat however you did not mention any measurements for the mounting plate up top, the length and i.d. if the shaft and how you secure the lower end of the shaft to the bottom end of the boat plus how you removed the paddle wheel you mentioned it was easy however i may not have the same boat i think mine is a sun dolphin...any help would be appreciated from anyone who had done this thank you : )
My first thought was Wow, that's neat. Then I figured it would be moronic to remove the entire paddling system to then strap some paddles on the side of this thing just in case the engine dies in the middle of the water for whatever reason. Why not just hook it up in the back and build a homemade arm extension with a steering wheel? Now that would be really something to play with. Not to mention how safer,more powerful and healthy it would be to keep the paddle system.
hello. I'm in the process of converting my paddle boat the same way. (Thank you for the idea). Do you have any problems with steering it? I want to make sure it works the way I need it to. Thank you in advance.
I saw this video a long time ago and think it's great! I bought a peddle boat last year for my little pond and its not working out like I expected and now thinking of doing this conversion. One of the problems I have is the hull takes on water thru the paddle shaft unless I sit in the middle seat. I cant see how the threaded rod that replaces the paddle shaft would not be a problem for allowing water in the hull as it does not always stay above the waterline. I am thinking I will just seal off all the shaft holes. thanks for sharing!
Gday mate... thanks for the video... Q. does the motor have to be lowered in order for it to give propulsion or will it work in the raised position. I ask this because I want to use my paddle boat in fairly shallow water holes to set and retrieve yabbie traps and it would be good to have not too much extending below the hull.
I don’t mean to ask a dumb question but is it possible to have the pedals and the motor feature so a person operating the boat can alternate? Also thanks for explaining everything so well. Are you in the teaching profession?
You can but the paddle wheel will turn as the trolling motor pushes you along. The pedals will also turn so you either have to position your feet out of the way or pedal along with it. Also slows you down quite a bit. Aquacycle makes an electric motor kit designed for paddle boats that looks pretty nifty but it cost over $2,000.
I did this and its awesome. go fishing all the time with one of my buddies. The only question I have is do I need to get the boat registered now since it has a motor? Im in Washington. Otherwise I will just say I didnt know lol
