Reply To: Mercury Mark 55E

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Thank you Bill W. Appreciate your comments. I am encouraged that this motor seems well regarded. Amen to USA manufacturing. Parts hopefully will be available. I will get a .manual immediately. Do I need a Users Manual as well? So can the motor be worked on hanging off transom? Figured I needed to build a rack of some kind.

Here’s a question. Again, first-time boaters of any kind. Fiddling around with the motor control. My son (his boat) was driving or attempting to get the thing going. It’s a 61 Whirlwind 14 footer BTW. Into neutral, etc. for starting. It did start after a couple of tries. Then we noticed that forward/neutral/reverse handle needed to go to the rear in order to move forward. This seemed nonintuitive and odd? Is this surprising or did our guy hook something up backwards? It was very clunky moving between positions as well. Is this normal or does this need work?