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If you look at my 84" mount, it comes close to the end of the pulpit. You may want to revise what I did to fit a 100" shaft.

Correction my motor shaft is 84". May have to slide plates a little more forward for the longer shaft

If you look at the bottom view of the mount, you can see that I used two 1/4" plates. There is a lot of torque in a strong current, so you will need the thickness. Yes, I wanted to retain my anchor, and that is the reason for the offset. You can see that he 2nd aluminum plate is offset a...

Sharing my experience with inserting a 12" Garmin chart plotter. - replaced the smoked plastic door with starboard. Do notice that the original door is not square; thus, use the original door to cut starboard - had to slide the bottom hinges to make room for Garmin - had to use a router to...

You will find the switches on DigiKey. Log in and search the part number I provided in the previous post.

The Spreader light (SPSP) and Dome Light (SPDT ON-OFF-ON) switches were going bad, I purchased the switches on Digikey - Judco # for the Spreader (10A/14V) and 40-4744-00 and the Dome light Judco # 40-3657-00

showing how to alter the bow rail for trolling motor - rail open for raising and lowering motor.

showing how to alter the bow rail for trolling motor - rail closed to allow the railing to be closed after motor is secured.

The Rhodan has a NMEA 2000 to allow a tracking mode. However be careful Garmin does allow tracking but others like Lowrance, Raymarine and Simrad may offer tracking - but ask Rhodan to make sure which products support tracking.

I had to purchase the higher power trolling motor - 36V trolling motor and the longer shaft 84" (96" would may be better in heavy seas but I am not bottom fishing in rough seas). The Trolling Motor provides 120 pounds of thrust. I could have purchased 3 batteries but decided on the 36V Ionic...

I racked my brains on mounting a Rhodan trolling motor on my Gulfstream. Attached are photos of a solution I came up with. You can see I hade two plates made - the top plate was to move the motor forward so that the motor would not hit the bow railing support rail. If I had to do it all over...