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Haswing Osapian Trolling Motor Review - 55lbs Thrust 12 Volt Motor on a Saturn SD488 16ft Boat
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Jul 19, 2022
Check out https://fishingatwork.com/haswing-osapian-trolling-motor-review/ for more information I reviewed the Haswing Osapian Trolling Motor while doing the Saturn SD488 Inflatable boat review https://youtu.be/qBqUYfflRqY previously. Today I am going to give a full review while also showing a part of the live test done on the Concord River in Bedford, MA. I recently got my new inflatable boat from boatstogo.com and bought this motor with it. I still plan on getting a 2 stroke outboard, but that is not today. I actually talked to a marine mechanic who receives broken engines that he repairs. He told me to come over since he is in town (hopefully he has an outboard that is fixable). As far as trolling motors go Haswing is definitely different. I used to go fishing on a 12 foot jon boat with my best friend. He had a minn kota trolling motor and it worked fine for getting around a lake. However, it was rigid and didn't have many options. The Haswing Osapian trolling motor has 55lbs of thrust. it can go in freshwater or saltwater. It has a handle that moves 110 degrees, which makes the handle go flat to itself and you can carry it with one hand, which makes it feel like a sledgehammer. This is actually a great benefit that it folds up to be so small. The handle extends way out if you are far from the transom. I don't feel any signs of flex in the handle either when I used it. I did manage to hang myself in the weeds, but I haven't used a trolling motor yet that can handle the carpet I got stuck in. It has a sacrificial anoid that will rust instead of letting it damage the motor. This is something that is needed for saltwater. Since I fish right where the ocean meets the river it is very necessary. It pushed the 16ft inflatable boat around with no problem. I will say that on a river only 3-4-5 speeds really do anything. Levels 1-2 are for maintaining your position and nothing else. This is where it's important to have an outboard engine when you want to move far away and try new things. As far as I am concerned I am a very happy customer and glad I went with a virtually unknown brand. It provides me with many options and has the power to do the job until I can get a proper outboard engine.
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Hello, I'm Dwight Norris of FishingAtWork.com and I'm here to help you go fishing
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Now, true to my word, I'm going to be reviewing that trawling motor that I bought to use on my
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Saturn SD488 16-foot inflatable boat. And this trawling motor is called the Haswing Ossapien
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55 pound thrust trawling motor. Now I got it right down here plugged in to my Newport Vessels
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battery box with the battery on the inside that I got at a local battery plus shop and it's all
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lit up and ready to go. Now when you do this inside your house make sure that you don't have
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it set to forward or reverse because you might end up slicing up your floor or yourself
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So be safe. I'll try to be safe during this video because I really shouldn't do this but it's a review
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Gotta turn it on right? Now this thing is a little heavy
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There was a lighter version and it cost a little bit more money but you don't pay all
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that man. So as you see here, there's some bright lights. Let's see if I can get a little closer to the webcam
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I'm cutting this thing on. I've already maxed out the line. Right here at the top, my finger's not working
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That's 100%. So if I cover it up, maybe you'll see. See 100% and it's down by 20 for each one
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80, 60, 40 and the red is 20% which means you're going to be
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out of power soon. Now you're supposed to read this, this little word right here
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says only read the power meter when the device is off, i.e. the engine is at
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zero. There's that number right there. The reverse is this way and forward is this way
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So when you twist it, it's like every other trawling motor, it's gonna go forward or
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backward. Now I stated down in the description below that levels one and two
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even of forward and reverse are like hard to feel. It's moving, it's spinning, but
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the boat because it's probably 16 feet long isn't really moving that fast. It was
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keeping me barely with the the Concord River's like relatively slow current. But
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But when I pumped it up to 3, I was like, okay, okay, we're going good now
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I hit 4, like, okay, this is my spot right here. 4 is my spot
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It's just enough to get moving. I can get across the river and back
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I don't have to worry about the wind or the current, and I can get to where I want to
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But then I pumped up to 5, it was like a totally different level. It's like I skipped
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Comparing from 1 to 4, when I went to 5, it went like I skipped 5 and went all the way to 10
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It was like a you get knocked back because it's so strong and you'll notice that the power meter goes way down
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For how long it'll last doing that but I had it on for over 45 minutes
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after fishing at 3 and 4 for four hours before that and the battery came back home
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With 56% of the battery life left and when I got back to the
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uh the boat ramp this meter I turned it off said it was at 60% so yes it's actually decently
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accurate and I got the uh the uh the meter from my battery from my um my battery charger said it
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was at 56% and I'm guessing that's accurate too so they both match up relatively well within five
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percent. High percent. So yeah, I would say they're both reasonably accurate at monitoring
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the battery's power levels. At least when it's at a new state battery. If it gets older
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and it has that spot to die, then we'll see how well that works. As you see here, the
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handle is pointed down. Isn't that weird? And it's behind something. What is this? Oh
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This is the clamp that goes on to the transom. And this is the cool part that I like
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Let me pull it up. As you see here, here's the propeller, the three prop
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The three prop propeller is only available on the 55 pound thrust model
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The 40 and the 30 have two props because it's significantly less RPMs
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and you just don't move that fast when you only have two
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So they give you three and you have a little more action and it's able to cut through crap
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Which I still found a carpet of a hydrilla that I got stuck in because my son dropped his hat in the hydrilla
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And then the current took it further into it. So next thing I know, we were on shore
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So, you know, you just clean right off, paddled myself out of there, started up again
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No problems. There were three hours. And I was like, oh man, what did I do? What did I do with the weeds? Fine. Perfectly fine to do the weeds. Don't even worry about them
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If you get through a carpet, just pally yourself out of there and start over again
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Where else can I go? Let's pull it out a little bit
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I'm going to go through some other details once we get to the page, because that's where all the specs and statistics are
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I'm really going to just go over what you can see here
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Whoops, didn't need to do that. Just unscrew it, it comes down to the bottom
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Now it's all the way to the clamp here. I'm about to pull the wire off, but I'm pulling harder
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And then you're able to pull it out. As you see here, it can move a large degree
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So here's straight. This is pretty straight. It goes obviously down. Boom! All the way down, straight down
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You can lock it into place right with the clamp So that when you put it in your car Sorry I need to look at the camera when you put it in your car it all one piece it like a sledgehammer Just put it in there and forget about it it all good
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also there to fire yourself when you stand up and use this you go to the bus to go
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website which I'll show you later you see people doing us you put all look culture that you all the way up here
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this is the max and stand up and still use it and when you stand up usually further away which is what I found
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I believe this is a got since 3 It's 130 millimeters long extension. It's more than enough. More than enough. It's awesome
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And it's 110 degrees of, you know, movement of the handle. So let me show you real quick the motor moving which will probably scare you and me
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But can I get like high enough here? Okay. I got my knee propped up. Don't do this at home
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but I want you to see it moving. I'm going to put it up to
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forward one. Hey, I made a fan! Probably cool off down here. Summer's kinda hot
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Don't use it for that. That's all. That's level one. Let's select level one
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Take a look at it. Level two. listen to the sound. Level 3. Level 4. See that level 3? Level 3 and 4 have no audible
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change. But when you're in the water it is, there is a thrust improvement. But let's listen
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to number 5. Audible change again. But when you're in the water it's a significant change
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engine speed. I can actually fill the window off this thing. Let's turn it off before I
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hurt myself. So boom. That's forward. Now let's go in reverse. It has five speeds to
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go forward and three speeds to go in reverse. Not sure what Nkota Motors do as well, but
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this is probably following the same guidelines and power ratios and everything. So this is
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reverse number one for reverse is actually pretty strong when I was using
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it it didn't feel that strong but then again you're going to reverse and you're not using the bow oh it's making a sound and you're also the transom is flat so
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obviously you don't have to go back very fast this is level two audible change
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more wind blowing me my legs start to get cold I like that I like that now level
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three rivers slight audible change from when I was in the boat significant change
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in the rear speed dials moving backwards and getting away from lots of hydro
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which I had to do many times because sometimes the river will blow you into Okay so demonstration over with the trawling motor. Uh here live in my uh my little studio here
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So, I'm going to put this down gingerly
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Be safe with a chalding motor when you're putting it around in your house. Oh, there's this little, I think every chalding motor has this
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It has a little fin on the bottom. It's kind of like if you're using a surfboard, it helps track you
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But this is really for help protecting the propellers. things come right over rocks or roots or logs or whatever the hell is underwater, you want
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to hit it and you want it to bounce below and pass by the prop. Because if it actually hits the prop first, you could really mess up your prop just like
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you would on your outboard. And that's not what you want. Or you don't want to hit it on your own dresser
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Your own desk. Whoo! So as you can say, I had to take a breather there. It's not light and all the weight is on the prop. That the whole area is where 90% of the weight is. The electronics up top, it's like feather light. I wish the rest of it weighed that light
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but you'll notice when you're using it in the water that when you have to pull it up
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it feels like you have this tiny stick and then you have this ball and chain hanging from the back of it
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and you're like Jesus Christ I thought I'm going to snap the rod pulling up but it doesn't bend
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It's just so light you can't fathom why it has to be so unevenly weighted
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But I'm not going to accidentally make it heavier. But after I got used to it, no problems
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It was just like a mental thing. My first time using a Toronto motor in a very long time
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Because, you know, this is fishing at work. I just returned from not fishing for a very long time
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A very sad existence. And now I'm back. Ready to learn. Ready to grow
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Ready to catch more fish. And ready to fish more often. And I want that for you
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So, right now, we're going to skip forward and look at the video that I made previously
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on the Saturn SD488. Now, let's attach it to this, and you can go there and watch it right now
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What else do I want to talk about with the boat? The transom is pretty strong and pretty thick
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and I'm looking forward to hooking on a 25 horsepower two-strike on there
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I was thinking about putting a 40 horsepower on there, but people were really watching and saying
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I had a 30 horsepower in Cape Cod. It's so wavy there and the current's so strong
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that you can't even go full blast. At least not on this boat, because it's not a V-Hull
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It's not a hard bottom. So I'm never gonna be able to use the horsepower
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because I might flip the boat. The 25 horsepower will get me rolling over the waves
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and get me where I need to go fast. And I won't have to worry about carrying around
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something that weighs almost as much as me. So 25 horsepower should be a much better thing
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and should only weigh about I don know just over 100 pounds 110 150 If you thinking about this this is me at three right now This is level three For the guy who looking I going upriver The wind blowing in my face and I trying to make a video and stare at the same time
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Here's number 4. It goes, I don't know, I'd say 3-4 miles per hour
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And level 5, really, see how little jump it gave right there? I'll slow down
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Now, watch the camera. See how it makes me jump a little bit
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You can hear the sound going up. It's revving up. It's picking up a lot of water
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And we're moving. Seriously. It's good. It's gonna get to 5 miles per hour
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Unless water is made up of 7 if it's completely flat and no wind. This is good for this motor. If you want to get a stronger motor, I've read some weird thing about how to pound for thrust doesn't really make you go faster
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It's more of a torque thing. Acceleration instead of actual speed. So that's interesting. Probably we got stuck inside of the weeds and it would probably have been better off chopping that stuff up
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Here we are. We're going under the bridge. I'm doing three things at the same time. I'm going to take another video. I'm driving a boat and I'm trying to go in a certain direction while not looking at it
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I'm pretty good. Pretty fantastic. I'm going to kick it on the four because I want this to last
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I really don't want to go to my second battery. But if I do, I'll put the anchor out and make it happen
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So we're back. I hope you enjoyed that quick video of being on the Congo River
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testing out my new Haswing Osapian trolley motor on the 16-foot boat
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and as you can see we're going somewhere. We're actually going against the current as I stated
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before and trying to get our fishing on but the fish weren't having it. So as always try try again
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So as you can see here if I get rid of my screen let's do this live. Let's shrink myself magically
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right into the corner. Boom! Here we are on the Haswing Outdoor website and I have it clicked
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right into the Osapian series section and onto the type I have. As you can see here I have this
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version of 55 pound thrust Haswing Osapian and it's a 35 inch shaft just $90 more and this is
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technically like 10 bucks cheaper than what I spent but I'm pretty sure they
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don't have free shipping so the price is probably the same for the manufacturer
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as it was when I bought it from Boats2Go.com. I'm sure they have
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wholesale pricing so they made their little bit of change. So let's look into
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some of the things that I didn't speak about because I'm not a you know a
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dictionary when it comes to all these specifications and etc etc. Tell you
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about this 12 volt, 55 pound thrust, forward 5, reverse 3. There is a
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lightweight model. They can call it lightweight. This is so lightweight to me
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I do like the LED battery level that's on the trolley motor so I'm using it
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constantly I'm looking at the trawling motor. I don't want to have to click on my battery
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box and check out my battery level all the time. I'm pretty sure if I do that too many
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times it might just stop telling me the truth. But it's right there in my face every time
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I use a trawling motor and that's cool. That's the VOW version. For me, as you see it has
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1250 RPM underwater and this is a three blade plot prop which is a point three
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inches wider in diameter than the two inch the two-blade prop if you care about
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any of these stats you know there's the watch there's the ambulance not using that version and
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and everything is in millimeters. But this is basically how I looked
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I had it at least flat or barely down because the shaft is a little longer than I expected for my 15 inch transom
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And I just had it like this, you know, right behind me
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And I turn it just like anybody else, just like this guy
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And this actually looks like a Saturn boat. Now let's go over to Boats2Go and this is where I purchased it from and as you can see it's out of stock. This happens all the time. They order it directly from the manufacturer and if they don't have any in their storerooms they say out of stock and when they come back in stock who knows you can give them a list. I never really got alerted when it came back in stock but maybe they do it some other way. I'm not sure
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But this has a few good pictures in it. You can zoom in and see here it's really nice and clear
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This is how it comes all twirled up, all nice. It was packaged very well and the prop is not attached
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and neither is the bottom thing right here. The fin is not attached. You have to screw those on yourself
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And it's really easy. It took me like 10 minutes to put it together and it was done. I was ready to go
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So, another view. Sorry about this. I want to get a view that's useful
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That shows a little set of torpedo there. This is the view right here
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I showed you the numbers. You saw this. Haswing Osapien. It shows the 55 pound thrust and it's 12 volt
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So you know what you're dealing with. I should get one of these motor holders
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I will once I get an outboard engine. And there's obviously more pictures
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a cool guy. Here's him set it up. He's putting it on. No problems. There it is set up on the
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boat. You push this little lever there. That little, you know, looks like a... I don't know
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what it looks like. Looks like a beak from a bird. Just push that and then it will release
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right those little rivets you see and then you can put it up and put it down You know basic stuff here Here him doing it he about to push the button and he can put it down he can put it down
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and then he's off. There's the battery he's gonna use a battery box that's you
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know that's fine if you want to do that I don't. There's a lady using it she feels
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safe and she is using a battery box. She's a little smarter. I'm not sure. Oh, this is showing
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the speed. Miles per hour. 3.7 miles per hour on whatever both she's on. I did, I did get an app
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that shows your speed and I had it when I was in the car and riding on the bus and it was fairly
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accurate so I'm gonna be using that to do a secondary test of the boat and you
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know making some more videos and showing exactly how fast we go because I said a
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statement about it not going over five miles per hour and I want to see that's
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true because I heard it from several different sources that that was true difference between thrust and speed when it comes to a trolley motor and getting
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one that's 55 pounds, 55 pound thrust or you know 150, the difference is you know
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negligible. I don't think there's any specifications that we want to go over
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here. They have reviews people like it that's cool. I'm not gonna make you
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watching these videos but we go to boast2go.com and look up the electric to the trawling motor section and look for this particular type
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You can watch some videos of other people using the exact same motor on different sized
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Saturn boats just like me. You can do it from a different viewpoint where you can see what's going on
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So you know what? What the hell? I'm going to do this one right here
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Music is ridiculous. But yeah, he's in the ocean. Like I said, it is a saltwater trawling motor
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And you have to wash it down when you're done. The anoid does take the sacrificing of the salt so it doesn't destroy the motor
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But I wouldn't do this on a regular unless you're really adamant on getting all the salt
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off the head of the motor. But yeah. how it is and that wraps up this show this review of the Hasswing Osapien 55
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pound thrust trawling motor. So if you have any questions please comment down
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below like it if you like it if not comment down below and tell me why you
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don't like it and what you want done next time. Now if you saw my previous
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video you'll know that I'm asking questions from you to see what you want
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to learn. What is your number one problem with fishing? I want to know how I can be
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of service to you as a fishing at work pusher. You don't need to go fishing
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at work. You can go before or after. You can go on weekends. But I want you to go fishing more often and I want to know how I can help you. Not everybody's the same
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everybody has different things they do in life and I can't imagine what
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everybody does I can try but usually you can be totally wrong and I need to hear
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it from you because that's what I know I'll have the right information so please
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tell me what your biggest your number one problem is for fishing for going
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fishing and there's something that's stopping you and you know what it is what is that thing that
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you would just like jump at if you saw it somewhere in the store on the street or online
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because if I think I can help you find it or make it myself I want to do that for you and
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that's really what I'm working on right now trying to provide the best quality information
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and services that I can. Videos are one, blog posts are another, PDF documents with, you know
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detailed information on how to do this and how to deal with issues or complications or questions
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about what to use and how to use it, etc, etc. So tell me all these things. Comment down below
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comment in the video I wrote before this. I think you can just go to the website and you can
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go to the contact us page and you can comment there. Find me on Instagram, anywhere. Go to Facebook. Go to my
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Facebook page and comment on that page or go there and you can message me on Facebook as well
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Any way you can find me online, please go there and answer these questions for me. If you do
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I'd be more than happy to provide you with hopefully a copy of that information if possible or if I do it so do yourself a favor and try to
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get out there and go fishing as often as possible and if you need help I'm here to help you and if
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you don't know what kind of help you need tell me what your problem is and let me see if I can help
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you. So this is it. Cutting it. We're done for tonight. It's late. And if you're thinking
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about getting a trolley motor for your inflatable boat or your rowboat or hell, even an outboard
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make sure you do your reviews, you look at your reviews and make sure it's exactly what
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you need because it's really important that you get the right stuff because sometimes
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you can't afford to make a mistake. So, I'm Dwight Norris, Fishnetwork.com
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telling you to go fishing
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