Abstract: An outboard electric trolling motor has a motor unit comprising a control head, pivot tube, and submersible drive carried in a hinge bracket at the bow of a boat. The hinge bracket is linked by lever arms to the boat for swinging the motor unit from a forward, operating position to a raised, rearward storage position. In a remote control embodiment, the control head and a hinge tube are carried non-rotatably by the hinge bracket with the pivot tube and drive carried rotatably with respect thereto for steering the boat. In a tiller embodiment, the control head is affixed to the pivot tube and the entire motor unit is rotatable in the hinge bracket for steering. The hinge bracket is provided in two cast pieces joined together about the hinge tube or pivot tube by nuts on threaded studs, whereby the motor unit need not be disassembled to remove same from the hinge bracket.