When my friends and I go kayak camping, we find it's difficult to fit
all our beer, I mean gear, on our kayaks. We're thinking, if we rented
a bass boat with an electric trolling motor, how hard would it be to
fit a remote control onto that so we could have a boat full of ice and
beer gliding along beside us as we paddle out to our islands? So
that's my question -- what's the cheapest way to accomplish this? The
remote would have to work from up to 100 ft away.

Just to get you off to a running start, there are several
manufacturers of remote controls for trolling motors (Minn Kota,
Motorguide), but it's not clear to me that these would work over the
distance I'm talking about.

hahaha- stupid sexy flanders....great name!

Wow, I wanna go fishing with y'all!

If you tie all the cans of beer together and tow them behind the kyak
you wont need ice.

I'm assuming you are not "shooting the rapids" .. if you want a small
bass boat to go with ya.....
I'm also confused why you would rather have take kayak vs a canoe.....

But just take an cheap inflatable raft and tie it up and drag the
thing...you would save a ton of time and money....

Kitch8 -- the idea of towing an inflatable raft makes sense, but we
were kind of hoping to throw a lot of gear in there too, and that
would be a lot of drag over the distance we're going (2+ miles out).
Plus, there's just the geek factor of operating a boat full of beer
out on the lake with a remote control while you and your friends
paddle along. If you can't see that I question your very humanity. ;)

Your kayak v. canoe question raises a good point...kayaks are easier
to handle than canoes where we'll be (Lake Superior), but how likely
is a flat boat to survive a rough crossing...Better rethink.