Seek and you shall find

Mike found a motor today on Craig's list.  He sent the information to the Mystery Marnia and they told him it should fit. We are waiting to hear from the head mechanic to make sure it is compatible. If it is we will have to change the prop from right hand rotation to left hand rotation.

This is the old motor. Lots of work that needs to be done.

There is good news and bad news though.

The good news is that the CT motor is almost half of what it would cost to get a new one or even rebuild the old motor that is in there now.
The bad news is that it is all the way up in Connecticut, only 5 hours one way.  Mike wants to go up and get it this weekend. At the rate we are going we should have this boat in the water sooner than we thought.

The new engine in CT

Plug and play

Now we wait to see when we can get up to Connecticut to get our motor.