Swivel mounts for attaching and maneuvering accessories over the gunnel of a boat or any other mounting surface

An assembly, comprising:

• a rotating mount having a mounting plate, a support plate, and a rotating element coupled together such that the mounting plate is able to rotate relative to the support plate about an axis passing through the support plate or through a region encircled by the support plate;
• an adapter bracket connected to a portion of the mounting plate, wherein the bracket is attached to the mounting plate by one or more connectors through an upward facing surface of the mounting plate, wherein a distal end of the mounting plate is further from the axis than a proximal end of the mounting plate, and wherein each of the one or more connectors is closer to the distal end than the axis is to the distal end;
• a deploy/stow bracket attached to the mounting plate via the adapter bracket;
• and
• a trolling motor having its shaft slidingly received within an annular opening of the deploy/stow bracket, wherein the deploy/stow bracket is configured such that the shaft is able to move between at least two positions, wherein in a first position the shaft is substantially perpendicular with a horizontal surface of the adapter bracket and in a second position the shaft is substantially parallel with the horizontal surface of the adapter bracket.

A rotating trolling motor mount bracket for attachment to an upward-facing surface of a gunnel, the bracket comprising:

• an elongated upper plate configured to rotate about an axis, wherein the axis:
• (a) is substantially perpendicular to an upward-facing surface of the upper plate;
• and
• (b) passes through the upward-facing surface of the upper plate or a region encircled by the upward-facing surface of the upper plate;
• wherein, a length of the upper plate is at least two times a width of the upper plate,
• the upper plate having a distal end and a proximal end,
• wherein the proximal end is closer to the axis than the distal end,
• wherein the upper plate has a plurality of attachment points for attaching a trolling motor or a trolling motor mount, wherein the plurality of attachment points are holes that pass through the upper plate, wherein all of the plurality of attachment points are closer to the distal end than the axis is to the distal end;
• and
• a lower plate rotatably attached to the upper plate by at least one connector for rotation of the upper plate about the axis.