[cliffpaul2]

I appreciate your comments and I'm sure that I'll get back to appreciating the boat again, but right now I see it as $10,000 down, and thousands left to go. And I don't have thousands to spare. So I'm going to hope that this "quick fix" will make it better. Otherwise, I'll put it back in the driveway and watch the summer go by while I save my money or learn how to operate on a boat transom.

I didn't mean my last comment as a shot at outboard owners; just to steer responses away from what seems to be a common theme on this board. If I had found a V-20 with an outboard for sale when I was looking, I probably would have bought it. But the motor type is not the reason for this problem. Poor workmanship is.