Qustions on kicker motors

[Steplift 72']

Originally Posted by Zarkohl

I agree that long seems to be the way to go. Alot of the previous posts that I reviewed suggest to go with long shafts in order to keep prop in water and the cowl out of water. Curious if anyone who uses a kicker with a short shaft could give us some insifght as to their experience.

It worked fine. Sort of hard to reach down and the tiller was not fully straightened out but I wanted to use the 25 for other purposes too. Later I had a 9.9 4 stroke that worked much better with a long shaft, but that was a single purpose kicker. Suppose it depends on if you have other uses for the kicker that require a short shaft.