Scanoe motor

[TradLife406]

I've got a great whitetail permit in my pocket for here in Montana. It'll basically give me two weeks after the end of the general season plus the entire archery/general season.
There's a lot of great cotton wood bottoms on public I'd like to try. Also the roads on my inlaws land get super muddy so I may even try boating to their stuff to avoid the gumbo.

I've got an old scanoe I fixed up a few years back. But sold it to a buddy who moved and I found out my bro inlaw has it and basically said go ahead and have fun.

I'd like to get a motor on it. But I don't know anything about them. I know a trolling motor would be good on a lake. But this river is kind of like the Missouri as far as flow.

Is there a small gas motor that'd fit that scanoe?

I obviously will be trying to go stealth when I can but it'd be nice to just motor back to the truck at night.

Thanks

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[robtattoo]

You can't go wrong with either a Mercury or Suzuki 2.5 or 3.5hp four stroke.
Super lightweight, pretty quiet, built in gas tank & pushing a small boat, you'll get hours out of a quart of gas!

 

[mmcdonough]

I've got a great whitetail permit in my pocket for here in Montana. It'll basically give me two weeks after the end of the general season plus the entire archery/general season.
There's a lot of great cotton wood bottoms on public I'd like to try. Also the roads on my inlaws land get super muddy so I may even try boating to their stuff to avoid the gumbo.

I've got an old scanoe I fixed up a few years back. But sold it to a buddy who moved and I found out my bro inlaw has it and basically said go ahead and have fun.

I'd like to get a motor on it. But I don't know anything about them. I know a trolling motor would be good on a lake. But this river is kind of like the Missouri as far as flow.

Is there a small gas motor that'd fit that scanoe?

I obviously will be trying to go stealth when I can but it'd be nice to just motor back to the truck at night.

Thanks

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Definitely look for something small like a 2.5 or 3.5 hp with the 4 stroke as the other poster suggested. 4 stroke will cost more but it'll be quieter than running a little 2 stroke weed eater and you'll get a lot more torque. There's motor mounts you can buy to fit it on a canoe.

f there's a strong current then yea I probably wouldn't go for an electric trolling motor. They definitely work well for low current and lakes though. I've used them on jon boats for duck hunting small streams and channels in Minnesota too. You could pull it off with a high thrust model but your speed would be significantly slower and you'd have to haul and worry about the batteries too.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Yamaha and tohatsu both make a small 2.5hp canoe motor, youll also want a short shaft for a canoe.

 

[TradLife406]

Thanks guys!

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[Carr5vols]

Weed eater , take off the string trimmer at the bottom and add a trolling motor propeller to it. Look it up on Google a lot of these around.

 

[KSP277]

Go 4 stroke whatever you do

 

[jeffpg]

I have an older 2 stroke 4 HP Evinrude that works great on my scanoe. It's actually very quiet but I would also prefer the 4 stroke.
I also have a trolling motor setup for it. I made some long cables so that I could place the battery in the front of the scanoe for weight distribution while I run the trolling motor from the rear transom.

 

[Blockcaver]

Trad, I’ve got a hardly used 2 HP Honda. Had it on a side mount on my 17’ Gruman double ender. Went too fast to troll with. Just hung on to the motor and went back to paddling the canoe.

The Honda would be good a good choice on the Scanoe. Good luck!

 

[AKDoc]

Good suggestions from others so far for sure.

I've got an Old Town square-stern with a 3.5hp motor that I've used for ten years to run up a good moving river for several miles every spring bear season. It's definitely not a fast run, but we make it to our river camping spot. We dump the motor in camp, and then portage over to a small creek to paddle several miles along the mountain snow-slides to the back of the valley. The black bears are just coming out of their dens.

The advice from thinhorn_AK to get a short-shaft is really solid...do it. I'm running a glacier river, so I also installed a prop-guard...and I still always bring an extra prop and a bunch of shear-pins!