Of all the luck.

Thanks all for the tips and Armand for the generous offer to use your boat. If all goes well I should have it up and running in a couple of hours. I just have to reinstall the fuel gauge sending unit, install the live well and then I'll be ready to fire her up. Don I don't have a filter on it but will be installing one. I don't have any ring free but I do have some spray Seafoam which I hear does the same thing. After I've got it running I will use it to decarb the cylinders and hopefully make it run great, which it did before.
"gene"

Paw Paw if you have the room get a racor with a clear bowl and a petcock. Next year I am installing one. I had one on my off shore boat. It also had a displacement float the gas was too light to float but water could. If the filter got water saturated it would shut off the flow. I think quick silver makes a small one like the attwood filter with the float set up that doesnt have a bowl or pet cock. For a lot less than a racor.

Mr. Gene, I hope that by the time you read this you will already have you motor running again. I hate to hear of your problem, but like someone mentioned, you and Mrs. Linda were lucky it happened to you at the launch instead of 3 or 4 miles down some canal. Maybe, just maybe, Someone was looking out for ya'll.

Gene, find a station that has ethanol free gas. It's all I use. Fill you tank full if you intend on not using your rig for an extended period. Definitely get you a good fuel inline separator filter. Hope this helps.

Wow paw paw hopefully that was all that was wrong and you can get it back on the water soon!

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I finished up this morning putting her all back together. I poured in some fresh no ethanol fuel pumped the bulb to clear the line and hooked it the engine. I pump it up until the fuel was leaking out of the drain plugs on all 3 carbs. I closed the drain plugs and pumped her up again. Hooked up the water hose and hit the switch. She was running before I could let go the key. It sounded good but a little rough. I took the can of spray Seafoam and shot some down each card. When the motor slowed I stopped and let it recover and then sprayed the next then the next. I did that until I had use 1/2 can. I then sprayed plenty into all carbs until it finally flooded out. After sitting for 15 minutes, I cranked her up. It threw a lot of blue smoke for a minute and then it was all clear and it sounded good. I hooked 'er up to the truck and off to the launch. Stopped by a different station and put in some pure gas and headed to the launch. She kicked over so fast it surprised me. We took off and did a site seeing tour of The Grove just to show my friend where we go as he wants to fish there also. She ran like a top, as smooth as could be. Came back in and loaded her up, brought her home and parked her. She will sit there until after the weekend and then off we go.

I must say the water in the Grove is beautiful but very high. This north wind will help drop it and hopefully next week it will be fish on. Thanks all for the comments and the tips, they were all appreciated.

"gene"

Hey PPG,

Good to hear your back in business. IMO all that stuff your spraying does nothing that a mist of h2o will do. That is getting rid of carbon in the cylinder.Nothing more than too lighten your wallet. We call it wallet flushing in the repair buisness.

Put a water separator on it and keep burning that fuel. As in fishing two or three times a week.:)

Great that was a cheap fix

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Glad you got your problem solved PPG! Now go catch some fish.

JR you're probably right about the h2o, but I think it got overdone by having a gallon of in in the fuel tank. I remember a few year back of a h20 injector put on some vehicle to not only clean engines but improved performance. I wonder what ever happened to that idea.

What puzzled me is the fact that after reading on CDC about decarbing an engine using Seafoam of the warning not to do in on your concrete drive as the amount of carbon blown out the exhaust would surprise you and cause a permanent large stain. Well I ended up with a small maybe six inch stain due to the lack of carbon. Of course that is great, that after 9 years of running an engine, more that most, to end up with a fairly clean engine, who could want more. The mechanic that helped Linda and I load the boat was amazed that after 9 years it had never been in the shop for carb work. I don't know if I'm amazed but I'm sure thankful.

The only bad thing to come from this is I missed a fishing trip and won't be able to go until at least Tuesday.

"gene"