I got mine from Rainbow Marine when I got the boat, I *think* it cost me $1500 installed. it is a 74lbs thrust 24 volt and has more than enough jam to pull the boat. The one thing to look at is the shaft length. The Fisherman is a tall boat and in about 2 foot of chop the motor was coming out of the water. I got the longest shaft installed on it and it helped a bit.
Batteries are important, the ones that Rainbow gave me were a joke, I might have gotten 3 hours out of them. They were good to me and refund them and gave me the biggest ones I could cram into the battery trays. I can easily go 8 hours on them now, infact I have never ran out so long as they were charged the night before. I also got a minkota in board battery charger. I highly recommend it as it charges quickly at first then backs off as the battery's get full then goes onto float to maintain charge. I can get my big batteries charged up in 8 hours with it.
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