Well, today was the day all the stars lined up and I got the 14′ Cadillac boat out
for the first time with the 56 Evinrude, 15 hp Fastwin.
Motor started first pull, and ran great, but it turns out the Fastwin isn’t so fast,
pushing the boat a top speed of 12.9 mph, lol.
As related on the video, I though sure the throttle was not opening up all the way,
but once back to dry land, I played with it, and sure enough, it appears it is.
The throttle control gears are cycling all the way. Pretty sure the magneto to carb is sync’d
okay, but will check again.
“If” I remember correctly, this same motor, on my little 14″ Alumacraft AL, with
two people in the boat, did 18.2 mph last year.
The boat does leak some and I had about a gallon of water in the boat before I
was done playing. Next motor to try out will be the 25 hp Johnson RDE-17,
that I’ve never had on a boat.
https://youtu.be/BJwWzVekjZg

I checked the throttle linkage every which way
on land, and from all appearance, the remote
conotrol was opening the throttle all the way.
Went back out on the lake this evening with my son.
Was only getting 11.5 mph wide open with the two
of us in the boat. It did “not” sound like the motor was
winding up all the way. After buzzing around the lake a
while, the trunion tube on the throttle cable came out
of the cable, making the remote control throttle useless.
Therefore while my son steered us home, I unhooked the
cable from the throttle control on the motor and ran it
via the tiller. Much to my surprise, we topped out at
16.2 mph. Therefore, there’s something I’m not seeing on the
cable set up. Have a new trunion and tube coming soon
as the threads are all buggered up on the one that fell apart,
so will try again soon!