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Is there a bow mount for a tiller motor?

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I am wondering if anyone makes a device for bow mount tiller motors similar to the foot control motors?  So you can just pick the motor up out of the water and lay it down on the deck?  Rather than having to reach down, push the release lever, tip the motor up, then loosen the set screw and slide the motor back.

Seems someone would have made one by now, but I can not find one.

They make hand control bow mount motors.  If you already have a transom, what you need to do is turn the head around to make it bow mount.  Then, go on ebay, and keep looking untill you find a bow mount.  Buy one, slip the motor in, tighten the clamp, and you have a bow mount motor.  walla!

Sorry, in my haste, I left out one crucial part.  The fact that the elec steer motors seem to have an outer shaft, which is fixed, and an inner shaft which rotates.  Correct me if I am wrong.  The outer shaft must be thicker, and it is not made to spin.  What I think you would need is a bushing, to go around the motor shaft, and then clamp into the mount.  That way, the motor can swivel in the bushing, and yet still be clamped down.  Just use the height clamp from the transom mount to keep it from sliding down.  I think that this sort of thing should work and there are a whole bunch of MG gator mounts on ebay right now.  

Although, the ideal thing would be a mount from a hand controlled MK edge.  It is made to do just what you want.  You may be able to order one of those from Minn Kota, or see if there is a TM repair shop that may have one in the corner, or on a wrecked boat, something like just the mount should still be intact.  

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