Wont shift into gear

[Raymiltier]

OK guys so I took the boat out yesterday, and wouldn't you know it Murphy's Law was in full effect. after a day of fishing with no problems I crank her up to head in and I've got no forward gear, just throttle reverse is OK but it doesn't even act like it wants to go into gear. I can throttle her up and nothing worked fine before our last drift so I'm perplexed. After a call to my Dad he instructed me to try and adjust the small cylinder that is threaded onto the shift cable, that didn't work. Any Ideas?

[Road King Cole]

Please keep in mind I am a novice and running on some speculation here:

Any chance the button is stuck that you push to keep it from going into gear when starting up? I have never looked at this close enough to see what it actually does. I assume it disengages a shifter cable. If this shifter cable is moving the connection at the transom, you might have an outdrive issue. I assume this was all working fine after the last time the outdrive was installed? You may need to pull the outdrive back a few inches to make sure the shifter "linkage" is set up correctly.

rkc