Hi,
Have a 2007 Kayot Z201, with a Merc 5.0L (Serial 0W672003).
Sometimes the boat gets right up on plane (3-5 seconds), and other times it takes 20 seconds...with the same load, trim, passengers, everything, and other times it can take a minute or 2 before I can get full power from the engine.
Feels like the RPMs are low and the engine isn't reaching full power for some reason, then all of a sudden kicks in and she's up on plane like a champ. I'll slowly move the throttle all the way to WOT and the RPMs don't go up. Just kinda stays bogged down in low RPMs. Sometimes when I pull the throttle back a bit that's when it kicks in, RPMs shoot up, and gets me up on plane.
The boat is 20', open bow, rated for 9 passengers, and I usually have 6 or 7 on board.
I just bought the boat a couple weeks ago and the previous owner never used it, it has 60 hours on it now after I used it twice this summer. It came with 3/4 tank of old gas. I topped it off with fresh gas, but haven't used it enough to burn off all the old stuff yet.
Could it be old gas?
I'd say 1 out of 2 times it struggles to plane out...but other than that it runs perfectly.
It has a pretty new, great condition, 14 3/8 x 18, 4 blade SS prop.
Have a 2007 Kayot Z201, with a Merc 5.0L (Serial 0W672003).
Sometimes the boat gets right up on plane (3-5 seconds), and other times it takes 20 seconds...with the same load, trim, passengers, everything, and other times it can take a minute or 2 before I can get full power from the engine.
Feels like the RPMs are low and the engine isn't reaching full power for some reason, then all of a sudden kicks in and she's up on plane like a champ. I'll slowly move the throttle all the way to WOT and the RPMs don't go up. Just kinda stays bogged down in low RPMs. Sometimes when I pull the throttle back a bit that's when it kicks in, RPMs shoot up, and gets me up on plane.
The boat is 20', open bow, rated for 9 passengers, and I usually have 6 or 7 on board.
I just bought the boat a couple weeks ago and the previous owner never used it, it has 60 hours on it now after I used it twice this summer. It came with 3/4 tank of old gas. I topped it off with fresh gas, but haven't used it enough to burn off all the old stuff yet.
Could it be old gas?
I'd say 1 out of 2 times it struggles to plane out...but other than that it runs perfectly.
It has a pretty new, great condition, 14 3/8 x 18, 4 blade SS prop.
