I just purchased a boat and had to put a new trolling motor on the boat.  I installed a minnkota 70lb thrust edge 24 volt.

I have 3 wires coming from the plug up front.  2 red wires and 1 black wire and all three wires go into 3 different circuit breakers. 

From circuit breaker 1 a red wire goes in and comes out of breaker and goeas to the positive side of battery 1.

From circuit breaker 2 a red wire goes in and comes out of breaker and goes to the positive side of battery 2. 

From circuit breaker 3 a black wire  goes in and comes out of breaker and goes to the negative side of battery 1.

A black wire is connecting the two batteries from the negative on battery 1 to the positive of battery 2. 

I am not for sure if this is wired correctly for 24 volts.

Advice needed.  Thanks

No it isn't. That hookup is incorrect for other than just using 1 battery to power a 12V motor.

Disconnect the red wire from battery 2 and remove the circuit breaker (you don't need the wire or breaker)

Disconnect the black wire with the circuit breaker from battery 1

Connect the black wire with the circuit breaker to the negative of battery 2

Remove the red wire that you disconnected from battery 2 from the receptacle.

Hook your trolling motor red wire to the red wire from the batteries

Hook your trolling motor black wire to the black wire from the batteries

Your are done.

No one makes a 12/24 volt motor any more which is what your boat is wired for now. Doing it correct now will eliminate any confusion by the uneducated in the future.

Thanks for the reply. I am not smart when it comes to elctrical things.  One more question.  Do the batteries have to be connected from the pos to the neg and vice versa?

With a 24V system, the two batteries have to be connected together with the positive of one battery connected to the negative of the other battery (you already have that). It's called a series connection. The load is then connected to the remaining terminals on the batteries. There is no vice versa.

Since you don't understand low voltage wiring, just hook it up like I described since it will involve less disconnecting and connecting what you have now.

Thanks I understand now.  I was not re-reading  my post about the way it was already hooked up. 

Thanks for the reply.  I have it hooked up and its working a lot better and stronger.