Well it took longer to get everything rigged and so had to settle for a late day trial close to home. As others reported,the engine started before I could release the key. After a few minutes warm up we were off. First the good stuff....The response and acceleration are almost frightening. The boat was on plane and at 30 mph in an instant at only 3000 rpm. After a few turns to get a feel for everything I throttled up and again the response was amazing! We hit 53.8 mph at 5300 rpm without touching the trim. Pretty fair for a 17 ft. walleye boat.........There were some drawbacks I have to phone the dealer about though. The engine runs a bit rough with slight vibration between 1500 and 3000 rpm. The scary part was when we went from sheltered water to the rough part of lake in 3 ft. waves. As I tried to take the engine out of gear to see how the waves would affect the boat,I had to really pull at the control and when it did go into neutral the engine idle was at 2000 rpm. The only way to get it in gear was to start the engine while immediatly putting it in gear. At the dock it was still idling too high and we had to use the kicker to get in. Hope it's not a software problem as dealer is 10 hrs. round trip