Just wanted to thank everyone here for all of your help. I took the Advance out today (first time legally, and not on a private lake) for 5 hours. Every other trip up until this point has been for an hour or less and 95% breaking in and tweaking of parts and problems.
Today was the first day of fun with the boat in my name with my own tag on it.
It was wonderful, everything worked as expected and I didnt have to raise the motor box once.
Thanks again everyone!!!