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@getakey, go ahead and mark the calendar... 
I actually picked it up about a month ago, and I've been having a blast with it fishing and exploring local lakes and now the inland coast.
My wife has had one for a couple of years that she uses for bird photography, these are pretty amazing setups from Old Town, with a built in GPS enabled Minn Kota trolling motor. The previous owner set is up with a Garmin 93 Chartplotter/Fishfinder that's pretty sweet!
Somebody at Old Town really thought this thing through. It has an Anchor Lock feature that uses GPS and the 360 degree revolution of the trolling motor to hold you in place. It has another feature that you can set a heading, hit a button and it will hold that heading with the trolling motor so you can take your feet of the rudder pedals and focus on changing lures or whatever. And it will run with the motor down in about a foot of water.
I have a 100AH LiFePO4 battery in it and have done 8 hours on the water without running it out, of course I'm not running full speed the whole time. And just this week we spent a couple of days wandering around the Boothbay Harbor area of Maine, including in some open water with heavy chop and boat wakes, totally stable and comfortable.
So I guess you could say I have finally found an EV I can get behind...but you'll have to pry my gas powered SUV, truck, and motorcycles from my cold, dead hands...
I actually picked it up about a month ago, and I've been having a blast with it fishing and exploring local lakes and now the inland coast.
My wife has had one for a couple of years that she uses for bird photography, these are pretty amazing setups from Old Town, with a built in GPS enabled Minn Kota trolling motor. The previous owner set is up with a Garmin 93 Chartplotter/Fishfinder that's pretty sweet!
Somebody at Old Town really thought this thing through. It has an Anchor Lock feature that uses GPS and the 360 degree revolution of the trolling motor to hold you in place. It has another feature that you can set a heading, hit a button and it will hold that heading with the trolling motor so you can take your feet of the rudder pedals and focus on changing lures or whatever. And it will run with the motor down in about a foot of water.
I have a 100AH LiFePO4 battery in it and have done 8 hours on the water without running it out, of course I'm not running full speed the whole time. And just this week we spent a couple of days wandering around the Boothbay Harbor area of Maine, including in some open water with heavy chop and boat wakes, totally stable and comfortable.
So I guess you could say I have finally found an EV I can get behind...but you'll have to pry my gas powered SUV, truck, and motorcycles from my cold, dead hands...
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️ BTW, what's the going price per pound now for fresh fish up there?