Seaswirl Tempo 17 sole, mounts, stringers?

I'm having some trouble with the alignment. I can adjust that motor until it looks dead on when I look into it from the drive end but I just cannot get that tool in there to check it right. I've tried loosening all the mount bolts and lifting the engine again and letting it settle in case there was some sort of binding. Could I be looking at some kind of lateral misalignment! I would have thought the rear mounts would have taken care of that. Looking for any pointers!

 

Nevermind I fund out I got the wrong tool.

 

I didn't splash yesterday unfortunately. I was very close but kept having small problems like gaskets that chose yesterday to spring a leak. Better in the driveway then on the lake I guess. The nail in the coffin came at about 2:00 when I was FINALLY ready to go. I started to bring the drive up and I blew a trim hose. UGH. Oil all over the place and not enough time to run out and get it fixed before I was supposed to be at my in-laws for dinner. Damn. Next week hopefully.

 

Finally splashed today! Things went mostly well but there are a few shakedown issues to fix. Being in Colorado, I've found I usually have to mess with the idle mixture screws quite a bit until I get the idle I want and a smooth transition to higher rpm and this is no exception. Also the thing pulls really hard to the left under full power. No biggie on either one of those issues, just tweaking. The one thing that has me flummoxed is the trim. I can put it all the way down, and run er up and within a few minutes on plane, the drive starts to come up on its own! That's so weird. I would imagine the opposite would ne true if anything. The drive doesn't come down on its own. I have to lower it while underway and ot goes back down. This could be a dangerous situation, no? If I forget to pay attention to the trim gauge that thing could come up too far and cause damage supposedly. Anyway, any pointers on the trim weirdness would be appreciated. I'm getting to the point I think soon where I'm going to stop posting in this thread because the job is essentially done. Not until I post up some more pics though, so here we go...

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/18t0LXv8XGWoDEywl6SJw6HCuTx9N85ff0vacwuIzpg?feat=directlink

Just launched at a local reservoir outside of Denver, CO

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That inline 6 chugging along smoothly

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nothing in the bilge but a little dirt. Everything is looking good.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DYPgwe6XsMIp-47i4Y7p3qHCuTx9N85ff0vacwuIzpg?feat=directlink

A poor quality video

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Hot air balloons at the lake. That was fun.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FSZ202GoAUO-bVEma569cKHCuTx9N85ff0vacwuIzpg?feat=directlink

Life as its supposed to be.

Thank you Tunnels and Swade and everyone else for all your help. This was a big scary job and you helped me through it. Beers on me if I ever get the chance. Thanks again!