We love paddling. It just should not be a stress test.
PacMotor is a dual-thruster trolling system built so anyone can hold a position, correct a drift, or get home — without paddling for it.
Why we build it
Built for people who enjoy the water
Anglers
Holding a spot in wind or current costs a fishing trip's worth of paddling. Spot Lock does it instead, so the rod stays in your hands.
Everyone else on the water
Older paddlers, disabled paddlers, and families paddling together — where one person is always stronger than another and somebody ends up towing. Anyone who wants the option of not fighting the water home. That is not a side use case; it is a large part of who buys this.
See PacMotor in action
You can explain control all day. It's easier to understand when you see it.
The technology
Two thrusters, one joystick, and a satellite fix
The first and only dual-thruster trolling system with GPS. Everything below applies to all three configurations at 6 mph, on 95% of kayaks, from the same 37" no-drill frame.
Two beats one
Two independent thrusters turn the boat on its own axis instead of pushing it around a single point — tighter turns, faster correction, 360° control from one wireless joystick.
Spot Lock, Waypoint, Heading Lock
The GPS configurations hold a position against wind and current, run a saved route, or keep a bearing.
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Behind the thrusters
What the motor looks like before it ships and while it is being figured out — builds, changes, the things that did not work, and whatever we film out on the water.
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How we got here
From a garage to a production line
Matthew Becker starts building a motor that would let him hold position without paddling.
Over $150,000 raised — enough to prove the demand and fund tooling.
Thousands sold across the US and worldwide. Serviced in Fort Myers, Florida.
The founder
“Focus on what you love to do, not what you have to do”
Matthew Becker — Software engineer by trade, mechanical engineer by calling
Matt grew up on the banks of a canal in Fort Myers, Florida, fishing the waterways of southwest Florida with his brothers. Somewhere along the way kayak fishing stopped being a hobby.
Mechanics run in the family. His father was a professional sound engineer, and Matt spent his childhood in the studio watching engineers wire equipment, solder and repair it. Later he spent more than ten years as the full-time mechanic for the family landscaping business, before college took him into software engineering.
The idea arrived on the water.
One day, five years ago, my closest friends and I went fishing. We were walking towards our kayaks and they each had motors in their hands. I saw them and thought — what if two motors could be synchronised to work in tandem on one kayak?
Two motors, working together on one boat. That became the patented dual-thruster system — and with it the joystick remote, the no-drill mount, the folding frame and the battery, all built around one goal: let people focus on the part they came for.
Dozens of prototypes and hundreds of hours of testing later, PacMotor is on the water with paddlers across the US and worldwide, and serviced from the town it was invented in.
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