I surely had my problems the first time I used the foot-control tm. Just took some getting used to. I'm still not coordinated enough to stand up and use it though :roll: . It seems to put me off-balance when standing. I'm much better at it sitting down. If there's room to do so, without hitting the trailer frame/tongue, lower the tm while it's on the trailer, and practice steering doing a "dry-run". Make sure there's enough room for the lower part of tm to turn freely so that you don't cause any damage to the steering cables from the foot pedal to the tm. If that doesn't work, it'll just take minimum time on the water until you're used to it. For some reason I seem to be able to drive my boat better using the front foot-control tm (as long as I'm sitting down), than I can using the rear tiller tm. ](*,)