ThePringle
New member
Just bought myself a duck boat a couple of weeks ago. When I looked at the boat it ran fine on the muffs and started great. It idled for 5-10 minutes while I was looking over the rest of the boat and listening for the engine to change during it's warmup. After listening I bought the boat and took it straight to the ramp. It ran like I champ! No problems at all. The next day I take the boat out it starts just fine, but won't go above 2,000 or so RPM even at full throttle (I'm guessing as I don't have a tack). I ran the boat for a couple of minutes letting it warm up and then decided to go back to the ramp incase something was wrong. As I'm going back to the ramp I tried to get the boat up on plane and gave it full throttle and it revs just as it should and ran fine for the rest of the time I was out on it. This has been the case everytime I have take the boat out. Won't get over ~2,000 RPM for a random amount of time and then suddenly runs like it's perfect. I say a random amount of time as the time/distance is changing. One hunt I ran half way across the sound and it picked right up and ran fine, the next at the same spot/run i had to putt all the way across and then it was ready to run as I was getting to my spot. Any thoughts on this? It runs perfect after some amount of time, but won't throttle up when first started. There is also a little bit of surging or quick reving before the boat is ready to run full throttle. Sorry for the lengthy post, just wanted to try and give everyone a good idea of what's going on.