It took until last Wednesday before Endeavour3 made it back to the water and we gave it all a good run. Hydraulics all worked fine! We had some starting problems as the electric choke wasn't functioning. (Why did they put the manual choke under all the cladding on these? Are all outboards like that?) Anyway it's another little thing to investigate and hopefully not such a big challenge.
Obviously this is a fairly minority interest thread, but I'd like to thank everyone who showed an interest and helped especially Gonorm and the people that run this site and club......it really is a powerful information exchange.
and the fishing.........we and all the undersized specimens in the bay practiced hard for next year and had fun doing it.