Went halibut fishing across the line yesterday. I anchored in 120' of water. Shortly after bringing in a nice 37lb'er, the winds started picking up and we decided to head home. While running the windlass, I raised the RPM slightly to give it a little more power. Once the anchor was back resting in its pulpit, I put it in forward and swung the boat toward home.
Monitoring the fuel consumption, everything appeared normal. It started at 24GPH as we rose in speed. At 20kts for about 30 seconds, however, I saw that the fuel consumption had only dropped to 18GPH. I slowed the boat to 15kts, and the fuel consumption lowered to 15GPH. It stayed like this for about a minute, but noticed that the engine was .....lugging. I dropped it out of gear and the engine died.
Opening up the engine compartment, I could smell gas, but I couldn't see any. But when I turned the engine over, I could see gas leaking out of the carb onto the manifold. In fact, a pool of gas quickly gathered in the area I've indicated.
Anyone know what would cause this? Is it a stuck float? If so, does that mean I need to have the carb rebuilt?
JSYK, I only use non-ethanol premium gas, and always add the correct amount of Stabilizer with each fill. (We also came back on the kicker. 3.5 hours @ 3-4kts, I'm glad the 15-20MPH headwinds didn't show up as predicted.)
Monitoring the fuel consumption, everything appeared normal. It started at 24GPH as we rose in speed. At 20kts for about 30 seconds, however, I saw that the fuel consumption had only dropped to 18GPH. I slowed the boat to 15kts, and the fuel consumption lowered to 15GPH. It stayed like this for about a minute, but noticed that the engine was .....lugging. I dropped it out of gear and the engine died.
Opening up the engine compartment, I could smell gas, but I couldn't see any. But when I turned the engine over, I could see gas leaking out of the carb onto the manifold. In fact, a pool of gas quickly gathered in the area I've indicated.
Anyone know what would cause this? Is it a stuck float? If so, does that mean I need to have the carb rebuilt?
JSYK, I only use non-ethanol premium gas, and always add the correct amount of Stabilizer with each fill. (We also came back on the kicker. 3.5 hours @ 3-4kts, I'm glad the 15-20MPH headwinds didn't show up as predicted.)
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