"I experience the same trouble
"I experience the same trouble with my boat. Runs awesome at full throttle and when you get to low rpm in or out of gear ,such as pulling into a fishing hole or loading up the boat, she dies. I was told by a seasoned yamaha mechanic that he had seen alot of that at our elevation (4400 ft above sea level). He said he had tried everything he could think of and finally swapped out the cdi for a new one, and the problem went away. He also said he had seen quite a few boats with this problem and did the same thing, and has yet to see any of those boats back. seems that for a while, yamaha didnt have their act together on those cdi boxes, and yamaha even helped out on the price of replacing them. too bad for me that i bought mine used, so i get to pay 700 bucks if i want to give this a shot. but i hope this helps you out."