I just bought a boat with a 1971 mercury 115 hp motor the motor starts good and runs good out of water but when I put it in the water it will only get up to around five or six on the output gauge, I don't know if this is the same as rpms or not but the first number on the gauge is 5 and thats about all it goes in the water, but out of the water it will hit 15 or 16, and my fuel line keeps losing pressure and I have to keep pumping the bulb and pressurize it I didn't even get going fast enough to level the boat out. What can I do, does it sound like the fuel pump?, oh after a while of running it, it started to not even want to run on idle I had to apply the cold throttle to keep it running, but no problems idling out of water. Thanks for any help.