Yes, I have a Minn kova Terrova 24 volt saltwater motor mounted on to the bow of my CD22. I have the 54 inch shaft, and it fits from short of the port side of the bow across the front deck, and doesn't protrude. Since it is down when I am fishing from the bow deck it isn't in the way. It doesn't affect the hatch at all.
I use two 31 series AGM batteries to produce the 24 volts under the port front seat and a 2 channel 20 amp charger there. I have carried a 2000 watt generator on occasion to charge in case needed on a long day but didn't need it. I plan to install two 100 watt solar panels on the roof soon.
Those few CD people that have this are kind of like the ones with autopilots. Once you set it up you won't want to ever not have it. Yes it is good for trolling, perhaps essential in for very slow trolling in wind since the CD22 cabin is a great sail and autopilots can have trouble maintaining course at slow speed with wind. However, the trolling motor takes the white knuckles out of docking in wind or tide too. Drop the motor, and you can spin on a dime, move forward or backward, and, in combination with the motor, sideways left or right.
If you get i-Pilot Link you can actually have it take you right into your slip if there is no tide or wind, and if you need to stop to wait for something, you hit the Anchor mode and it will keep you right on the same spot until you want to move again. Utterly cool.
After you get used to it, it is clearly better than a bow thruster, except if you mount it on the port side you can't easily dock on the port side. I dock in my slip on the starboard side, which is more common for CD owners.
Very easy to mount, just be careful to follow directions on other pages for drilling larger holes, cutting out some of the balsa core, and refilling with epoxy and redrilling so that you don't have danger of water getting into the balsa core.
Earlier I wanted to get an Ulterra, since I could deploy and stow without getting on the bow, but I got the Terrova as i would have had to cut out a little bit of the railing for the straight sweep of the Ulterra, something I now wish I had gone ahead and done. My back isn't getting any younger, but with the new doohicky that takes some of the weight of deployment, the Terrova isn't a problem to deploy or to stow.
