Thanks guys!
David, the engines perform absolutely flawlessly now. I'm more inclined to think that the shutdown was just an air bubble in the injection pump, and that the no-restart problem was unrelated. The engines light off so fast now, it's amazing. The missus was onboard today getting ready for the big passage to our home port. When I started the engines, her eyes went wide open and she said "That started faster than my Subaru!" If the missus notices something mechanical like that, you know it's impressive.
That said, I don't want to get a $10,000 ticket from the Coasties, so I finally got the transom name installed. As I was writing that now, it seems to me that $10,000 is a
cruel and unusual punishment if the USCG catches you navigating a documented vessel without the name and home port on the transom. Such is the state of our republic.
Anyway, it turned out fine and now we're 100% legal. And in the process of getting the USCG documentation up to date, I learned there were far more previous owners of this boat than I previously believed.
1969 Chris Craft Roamer 46 Refit: Installing the Transom Name and Home Port
Cheers,
Q
