What do you think? I just ordered the bow mount TM, on board charger and circuit breaker. What do you guys think, do I need anything else for this installation and what do you think about the bracket and stabilizer?

not sure what the stabilizer is, but the quick release bracket has its good and bad points.

I have them on both boats. the reasons are.

1. my boat covers are made to fit without the tm on.

2. so I can switch the same tm from boat to boat.

I'll tell you one thing when I get a new cover or new boat the TM will not have a QR bracket. they are nice, but that TM ( I have a MG Tour series 109#) is one heavy son of a $#%&@. The 52# mk on the small boat is  lighter, but still heavy. Its also a pain to keep taking if off and on. also one moring before a tournament I pulled my back out picking the TM up to mount it. That made for one long, painfull day.

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ok I see what your talking about. If you going to be fishing big water I would say they are a must. I have the straps from rodsaver to hold the TM down when running.  I lost a TM up at Erie once in 4-6 footer so they are a must on my boat. was running at a good pace in the 4 to 6 footers and hit one wave motor went to deploy and it got ripped right off the boat. That was a Mk power drive. I now rum a MG cable steer, but its strapped down when I run

that sucks. If you were like most left wingers you would have sued the dept. of conservation and natural resources for the loss of your motor.

I didn't realize that was what they were for. I thought it was for trailering the boat to keep it from bouncing around.

they help when trailering to. they keep the motor from bouncing. I like RAM mounts, have them for my DFs, but didn't like that set up on the TM. the straps seemed better to me. see the way I see it is that ball you mount to the shaft will get caught in the wire when turning and if you need all the lenth of the shaft you lose a few inches with it on. the strap sysytem from Rod saver has two straps. one mounts at the base and holds the hole motor from deploying and the other strap goes around the head and holds it from bouncing. put that on a when I bought the TM, Losing a $1000 TM is not what I want to do. It take 2 seconds to hook the straps up and they hold great. I have been in really bad water up to 10 footer one time when a storm blew in and the motor stay put really nice