Just sharing a funny story I thought some might like. A few years back, a good friend of mine bought an older bayliner. Decent boat but he knew nothing about boats. He owned it for 2 or 3 years and hated it the whole time. He almost never was able to get it started. Usually it just cranked and cranked until the battery was dead. Sometimes it would fire and die right away. A few times he had a truck parked in the water with jumper cables and would just hammer on the starter. Sometimes he would get it to go and it would be great once it warmed up. So he decides hes done with the headache and goes to sell it. Some guy comes over to look at it. My buddy tells him it probably wont start but once it does it runs great but we can try anyway. So the guy hops in, pushes in the button on the throttle lever and advances the throttle and it fires right up! My buddy just looks at him and says "son of a -----". Nobody ever told him how to advance throttle it! He ran into the guy a couple years later and he said the boat runs great and starts right up for him. Hows that for a kick in the beans?!
