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Yes, I have several pictures of the bow mount I used. It is VERY simple, but I did not have 2 items on this boat that a standard Outrage 18 has on them to contend with at all.

My Outrage 18 does not have any bow or side railings. It also does not have the standard bow bitt. All I had to do was drill and tap into the center of the bow bitt mounting location on the bow, which has the standard factory metal plate they use for the bow bitt mounting under the fiberglass.

The only option you would have, if you wanted to mount an electric trolling motor the same way I have done it in the past would be to remove the bow railings and the standard bow bitt from your boat, assuming it is original. The drawback to mounting your trolling motor this way is that, 1) It will be folded back into the center line of the boat in the front when stowed, restricting ease of movement around the bow, anchor locker, and front cooler in your boat, and, 2) you will need to find another way to cleat an anchor line at the bow.

For these, and aesthetic reasons as well, I have now completely redesigned my trolling motor mount. I still use the quick release plate for the motor, but I have removed the original fiberglass on the starboard side bow gunnel, installed an aluminum plate inside larger than the hole made removing the original glass on the gunnel, re-glassed the cutout over the plate and built up a fiberglass block that adds enough height under the quick-mount to allow the motor to clear the fiberglass lip originally used to snap mooring covers on the boat.

Now, the trolling motor will be mounted along the starboard side gunnel and deploy over the bow in a much more conventional manner. There is no access lost in the bow interior, and the anchor locker can be accessed. I have installed a cleat for anchoring in the old bow bitt location on the center of the bow.
I also have installed under deck wiring to a plug for the trolling motor power supply located in the rise of the deck just forward of the front cooler seat facing back to the stern. I have my 2 trolling motor batteries wired from within the console, and a charger for them mounted under the console with a 110 V receptacle on the side of the console that allows me to plug in the female end of an extension cord to charge the batteries.

This project was not simple, and I will have pictures of the completed project pretty soon. I have the boat in Palacios, about 150 miles from my location here, so I can't take any pictures at the moment, but I will post them ASAP. I do have all the pictures of the boat being restored up to last November at this link :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9978785...428438304/

There are no pictures of the new design mount here, as this was not completed at the last picture session. The boat didn't even have the rubrails and decals then. If you look carefully at the pictures of the boat after the new trailer, you can see the quick-mount in the center of the bow on that trailer, and there is a photo of the stripped boat that still has the quick-mount block on the bow as well.