I would just go ahead and sell it, the worst thing on an outboard is letting them set up, even if you drain the fuel out of the tanks there will still be gas in the system some where. You can allways find a nice used boat if you decide at a latter date to get you another one. There are some real buys out there right now on real nice used boats and there will be more down the road. I have seen to many times here at the shop that guys bring in boats that have been setting up for a while and all they have is problems getting it going again, sometimes very expensive problems. I hate to see any one sell their boat who doesn't want to but family comes FIRST ALL THE TIME.

I had a buddy years ago go threw what you are talking about, he keep his boat at the time but ended up spending a lot of money on it when he did get where he could fish again, after setting for about five years.