Absolutely, the a-ha moment. Hope you do not have to look into cleaning the carbs. I love the looks of that Offshore. Best of luck to you.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm going to run the snot out of it in the morning. Report to follow.

Rut Row.. No posts for a few days, how did it go?

It didn't. On the way down to the ramp, I had another blow-out. Spent the afternoon at the tire store instead. Sunday was a washout between a first birthday party and football. I have a sailing regatta this weekend, so the next available time is next weekend. Hopefully the warm weather holds so I can put a few more redfish on the boat while I'm at it.

Here are a couple of action pics from a couple of weeks ago.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...e22onplane.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...re22atrest.jpg

Love it. The top and console (as someone already mentioned) really appeals to me. That is the exact look I was trying to achieve on mine. Looks sturdy too. Good luck on the reds, I got word from my mom that the bite has turned on.

Looks good Shrek.

boat looks awesome!

Thanks Case, how you getting along with my old girl?

UPDATE: After draining the tank completely (again) and removing about 3 gallons of water from the bottom, I took the boat out for the first time last Saturday. It was not as bad as before, but still more of the same. The primer bulb never collapsed this time, but the more fuel I burned, the more performance degraded. By the end of our day, I'd burned 15 gallons and while the boat never stalled and was not burping and farting as it was before, it did not have enough power to get on plane. I changed the fuel filter again and there was more particulate material and some water in it, but not as bad as before. I'm at a loss. This week I am going to buy an electric fuel pump, a second fuel filter and separate water separator, intake from the pickup and return into the vent. See what we get.

I have her in stored right now waiting to do some work to her. hope fully will be able to remove the cap this December.

Are you running 5/16 fuel line? Maybe trying some 3/8" so that the hose is bigger and can flow more junk into the water sep filter it might be clogging the the line itself. If you are already running 3/8 then my idea definitely wont work.

Yep, everything is 3/8. I'm setting up a filtering rig this afternoon. I figure that I will jack up the front of the boat about 47 feet in the air and loop the fuel through an electric pump through a couple of filters/water separators and back into the tank through the vent. I'm going to run that all week and then we will see what happens.