Look for a piece of plastic in your fuel tank, or something like that. That's one of the thing people do to vandalize a vehicle. It'll run, then clog up. When suction has stopped, piece falls down and motor works fine. Repeat later.
I saw a spectrum like yours, same color, etc yesterday on the river. Nice looking boat. I think they are sharp looking.
The trailers seem to be low as I have the same problem w/my 19'. The bunks were broken, so I just added another one on those, with supports and leveled it out. I did that to put it into storage and will do something more permanent as I fix it. Don't know if the fix will be using thicker wood, double the wood up, and/or putting rollers on it. The last should raise it up abut 3-4" alone. Why create work elsewhere to resolve an issue someplace else?
I have it stripped of all but the motor, so I'll have to make sure it's supported all as it should be so I can 'form' it back into shape, then put in the floor framing and crossmembers. The latter provides support and helps keep the sides up in the middle front.. For xport to storage I used three ratchet straps to keep it from spreading, but might have cinched it a tad too much as the front piece of alum covering the nose bulged up quite a bit. That's how flexible that can be. I'm going to make the trailer into sort of a frame table to make sure I don't button things up out of shape.
You have the better windshield as it's more upright than either the earlier ones or the longer ones. Makes no sense when boats have those where when sitting, your head is clearly above the top of the windows. Lakeland had that also where everything was too low--for adults anyway. Must be a low center of gravity at all costs thing.
It's a V. What kind of hull does it have by the transom? The lund fisherman is a hull I really liked--V all the way and hard, reverse chines on each side. Very stable and cuts into turns nicely.
Here's your 16' bow compared to the bow of an earlier 19'. Looks like they redid the bow to better penetrate waves but the trade off is some loss of stability. You can see how the longer boat would be more stable in front due to more lateral wetted area. Some boats have a very pointed front that drags back pretty far. I don't understand this other than OK, they want a planing hull that will help with waves...but you have to stop some time.
