Well the "she admiral" and I took the Supersport 16' out on the Connecticut River today for the first cruise since I picked it up a couple of weeks ago. I had a little trouble with the tilt before we left the house. The relays were clicking so had to dig out the volt/ohm meter and figure it out. Jumped the relay terminals and still nothing. As it turns out it was the factory inline connectors were not passing voltage so cleaned them and presto... tilt/trim! It was a nice 20 mile trip that went smoothly. It does seem the idle return spring is weak or there's not enough free play in the throttle cable as it will go down if I manually put the linkage. The engine seems to use a lot of gas (3 gallons in 20 miles), Gotta look at that this weekend. God, this boat has some serious power with the 85 Evinrude. The boat is completely original and as such I see evidence of decomposition of the flotation with pellets of foam in the bilge. It leaks a little bit but I have no idea how much moisture is "sponged" into the styrofoam flotation. The Supersport 16' is in such good shape I cringe at the thought of lifting the floor and replacing the flotation. Too bad the weather is gonna suck this weekend otherwise I'd go to Somerset Reservoir for the sophomore cruise. I wish I could find a snap on cover for the bow section...
