My uncle recently bought a Crestliner 1750 Sportfish. He is looking to put a Minnkota Power Drive Trolling Motor on it, and he is asking me what size to go with. I say 24V and 65lb thrust, but he is leaning towards the 12V 55lb. His boat is already rigged for either one, so that is not a consideration. Remember that the Sportfish has really high gunwales and is a fairly heavy boat. Any opinions? Thanks
Tony
24 volt would be better for more power and longer running time.
You HAVE to have 24 volt. I know tooooooo many people who have the 12 volt and regret it dearly!!!!
Like everything that is better comes a price tag! Another battery purchase and more money for the 24V trolling motor. But like eveything else, its worth every penny once you have it.
24V all the way! 
24v min. The run time is sooooo much longer. Really handy on remote weekend trips where power is not available to recharge. Seems like 12v can run down in a day of heavy use. I have not fished in a boat with 12v in a long time.
I have had them both. NO question go with the 24V 65lb.
Good luck.
Another vote for 24v. I made the switch from 12v to 24v and will not go back. Having 24v you don’t have to worry about the trolling motor going dead before the end of the day. I would also recommend at least a 65#.
I have 24V on similar sized boat LUND 1800 fisherman 65lb minnkota works good, but would maybe will go a little bigger next time, some times the wind is to strong for the 65lb thrust for a long outing. I don’t have a kicker so in fast current like on the Upper St. Croix area or in strong windy conditions on Mille Lacs and L 
ake of the Woods I wonder if I should have bought more power to help with my wind catcher boat.
It’s a no brainer. Go 24 volt. I’d also seriously consider looking at the 74 pound thrust model too.
If he river fishes at all do not let him put the 55 on that boat. We have a 1675 with the 55 and it is not near enough motor for river applications. Our motor was part of a package deal and it may work for lakes but on the river it just doesn’t hack it.
I have a 50# bow mount on a 1750 Fishhawk and wish I had more. Go with 65# as a minimum.
I’ve got a 1750 Fishhawk and would not put on anything less than the 24v, with 65 lbs. of thrust and 60″ shaft.
I asked a similiar question earlier when I found this wonderful board and sadly (well not really) the members of this site are the reason I am going with a 36v model.
The way I figure it, if I am not catching anything, I can troll wicked fast or if my partner gives me gump, I can juice the trolling motor and watch him teter off the boat into the drink!
tony,
have him check out the 74lb maxxum, 60″ shaft. if he has the room for a third battery, i would put the 101lb, 62″ maxxum on that boat. that is a large profile boat, add wind, currant and even with a 24v system, you will run the batteries down. after using the powerdrive units, and having all the problems, i switched to the maxxum’s, i haven’t looked back……..tom f
ps… i only fish for fun, i’am not a pro, no sponcers to support.
I would not recommend going too big with a maxxum or any other type of trolling motor that only has “5 speeds”.
The Power drives and autopilots have a true varible speed from 0 to 100 percent. This allows you to fine tune your speed for working the river/lake pending on current and wind.
WHY I state not to get too big on thrust when you only have 5 speeds, is that you may loose some control when trying to go too slow.
I put a 50# thrust trolling motor on the front of a 14 foot lund. It had the 5 speed handle. Anyways, in slow current, I could not “slip” down river. In 1st gear/speed, I would go up river. It sucked, because I lost boat control with slipping with the current.
So, there is such a thing as TOO BIG, if you can’t control speeds, via the 5 speed variation, in comparision to the true variable speed.
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