![]() For starters at idle speed, yes the two cylinder 9.9 motor will burn less than your main power plant does, but that kicker isn’t running at idle when you’re trolling. If that troll speed is slow enough for you, then save the kicker money and put the $4k into a good sonar system.Ī kicker motor will burn less gas than your main engine. If that idle speed is too fast for you then a kicker is going to be very beneficial. While most of the modern outboards have introduced a “troll control” function they generally can only get as low as their standard 700rpm idle speed and go up from there in 50 rpm increments. This is absolutely true, and as far as I’m concerned the only real argument to a kicker. If you're not planning on selling it, then really there is no problem with trolling hours.Ī kicker motor can get your trolling speed slower than main engines. ![]() Does that make it a worn out motor? The truth is not at all, but it will be less enticing to prospective buyers hurting your resale value. While this is true, and engine hours is the first thing people look at when purchasing a used motor, the modern fuel injected power-plant records engine hours separated by RPM range so a simple computer check will show that a seemingly high hour motor has 80% of its time under 1000 RPM. Now that we know some boats are designed with kickers in mind and others are not we have to circle back to the first question, do you NEED a kicker?Ī kicker motor will allow you to rack up hours on the water without raising hours on your main engine. Even Cutwater Boats built outside of Seattle offers a kicker option on their cruising vessels. Our Canadian builders like Campion and Kingfisher have plenty of options for kicker mounts on every fishing boat they put out. Now here on the West Coast we have a completely different fishery. Grady Whites are built in North Carolina – a coastline famous for huge Tuna fishing, and Boston Whaler is built in Florida where you can fast troll for Marlin. Why don’t these huge builders that have seemingly the best fishing boats on the market offer you a kicker bracket? It's because the Pacific Northwest is one of the few markets that use them. If you absolutely needed one then major manufacturers like Grady White and Boston Whaler would offer kicker mounting options (which they don’t). ![]() Most new boaters don’t even know why they need one, just that every other boat seemingly has them so their new boat must also have one. As a boat dealer who deals primarily with fishing boats we have a tendency to sell a lot of kicker or auxillary motors. ![]()
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