Saltwater Ulterra

Love mine, had an issue on deploying (belt broke) but covered by warranty

We have the ipilot riptide terrova on our boat and it's the best thing since sliced bread. Like another guy said the autodeploy has been having some issues. You may never have one, but a large number of people are. Also before you buy make sure to research the difference in ipilot and ipilot link to decide which feature set is best for you.

I have Riptide also and love it. It’s really an easy deploy.

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I have noticed the 36v versions seem to have more problems than the others. I have a 2000 Kenner so the set deploy feels a bit like big rims on a hooptie but I love it.

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LOL If I pull the trigger I will be in the same boat....mine is a 2072 tiller riveted jon boat LOL.....but I have nearly $4000 in electronics and at last count 18 circuits, 14 switches and 4 batteries powering all sots of gadgets and goodies LOL. I discovered a long time ago that a hull was nothing more than a platform to stay OUT of the water....yes, occasionally the water and I share the same space INSIDE the hull and it does beat in a chop or a swell BUT it is 37 years old and has nary a leak and, most importantly, it is PAID for. I have owned it since it was new and it has been remodeled and added to and taken away from at least once every 4 years...it is as close to being a perfect hull for my needs as any of the multitudes of boats I have owned over the years. It has a 2018 60 HP Mercury Big Foot on a hydraulic jack plate and will run about 30 MPH with a duck blind, 2 big old boys, 6-10 dozen decoys and one old overweight Lab and enough coffee, Vienna sausage and diet coke to last at least a day on the water...and it will do it in less than a foot of water. Won't plane in a foot but when it is on plane it will easily only draw a foot of water. I've run it up rivers out west in near class II rapids with jet boats watching and laughing their asses off....makes one hell of a BIG drift boat LOL. I can and have driven it over beaver dams and levees, with some help with a winch. It ain't what one would call a pretty or sexy hull but it is a WORK Horse and I have killed piles of ducks and geese out of it, it can be poled to shoot rails, I have caught salmon, trout, specks, reds, snook, tarpon, king fish, cobia, bass, bream, catfish, stripers, hybrids....just about any kind of fish imaginable inshore or in freshwater in this hull. On top of all of this I have moved boat docks and even wired a sizable marina in North Georgia out of this hull, complete with a 10 foot step ladder or a 20 foot extension ladder stood up in it LOL. My kids can tube behind it.... I would not have any other utility hull....

Don’t do it! Unless you are a cripple the downsides far outweigh the positives. There are threads on hull truth or go ask a certified trolling motor repair guy and they will tell you get a Terrova.

They have been out long enough for MK to fix mostly all of the bugs, I rented one when my tm went down and really didn’t want to give it back.