Mike, Be careful trying to run your motor too high in HB, Bayport, Homosassa, CR. Those 20 or so Roller Trawl shrimp boats tied up behind Zig-Zag's spend the night "Mowing" the flats off shore. The stuff gets wrapped around the lower unit and eventually shuts the water off to the intakes. I stopped three times on Saturday running back from 55' because the temprature gauges started climbing above 178. Slowed her down, backed it down and they settled back to 162. I stopped between the Bird Rack and BP Channel marker the last time. With the Gulf water temp. at 84 degrees, it's a hop, skip and a jump to overheating if you'er not watching what's going on.
FYI - Dennis' guys at Gulf Coast Marine two miles north of you in Weeki are really good E-Tec mechanics. And Bob's guys down in Largo at Suncoast Marine 50 miles south of you are absolutely the best on E-tec's. They end up with all the "we can't figure it out's" on the West Coast of Florida. I'm not sure why you dragged it all the way back to SC other than to show it off - it is a cool boat though, so I'd probably do the same!
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