My buddy and I got my Canoe in the river today. I was happy to see that we weren't taking on any water after launching it lol. We went about 2 miles down river and then used the Minn Kota 30# trolling motor I just bought to get us back up stream. I ran it off a lawn tractor battery and it lasted longer than I expected, died about 100 yards before we got back to the truck. I need to make a sturdier motor mount, we had a couple issues with the bottom 2×4 not staying under the lip of the canoe. Not bad though for rigging up a mount 10 minutes before we left this morning.