I was out saturday morning,and the boat was running awesome. After fishing till slack we decided to make a run to get more pogies. After running about 10 minutes at 17 knots we are entering the area we want to be in, and all of a sudden the boat drops to like 1500 on the tach and the speed slows down. No alarms, so I throw it in neutral and she is idling fine, throw it in gear she takes off like normal and gets up to around 4000, and then does the same thing. I check the aspirator bulb and she is soft while the engine is running, not sure if this is status quo or not, so I squeeze it, and it won't inflate itself. So I am thinking something is going on here. I pop the inspection plate, a look see at the tank and it appears that the vent hose is cut, so I am thinking a piece of the hose fell in the vent opening?? So we make our way back to the ramp at about 5-6 knots, and once we get into the river she dies. While we are floating there I pop the engine cover off, and remove the fuel filter on the engine, when I did this I heard a whoosh, and the screen looked clean, so I put it back together. I then checked the primer bulb and it had re-inflated, so I am thinking if there was something stuck on the pick up screen in the tank, when I opened the filter it release the vacuum and it just came off. I prime the engine the bulb gets rock hard and she starts right up, so I mosey in at the no wake speed with out issue. Today I checked the vent hose, there was plenty of slack, so I took it off and cut it back and put it back on with new clamps. Then I looked at the cut and it was just the outer covering, not through. I put it on the muffs and primed it up and ran it for a bit and everything is hunky dory. I am now thinking run out the fuel, pull the sending unit and try and check the tank. Not sure what else to do right now, but this crap has got to end or it will be a Viking funeral soon...
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