They say history repeats itself.
I started out with an 8 ft john boat moved up to a 16 ft canoe then my first bass boat a 14 1/2 ft thundercraft with a 45 hp chrysler, a 15 ft skeeter Mercury power of tower 90 hp,phantom 17 1/2 with Johnson 135,ranger 18 1/2 omc 150,20 ft glasston with omc 200,22 ft Jaguar same omc 200,then back to a 20 ft allison pumped rude 200,17 ft hydrosport yamaha 150,stratos 191/2 ft 200 merc,now down to a 16.5 procraft 115hp.Same trolling motor has been on 4 of those boats,with many of the electronics.Roughly 50 years of boats.