Hello everyone. I am the owner of a '95 Carver 330 Mariner with twin Crusader 350 xl's. To say this boat has been a money pit since I bought it is an understatement. My latest problem, while my wife was driving (a.k.a. the boss lady) under my watchful eye, she pulled the throttles back slowly entering a no wake zone and the port engine stalled. We had been running 20 to 30 minutes. I took over and quickly tried to restart a couple of times while fighting the boats tendency to want to turn left. I realized it was still in gear and shifted the engine into neutral and tried to restart a couple of more times. It would crank but not turn over. Well, being as the cooler was full we had food and a good engine and generator, we decided this was as good as place as any to drop the hook for the night. I also was not going to try and take it back into the marina on one engine. To say on one engine she is a wallowing pig would be kind. Anyway, we got the anchor out courtesy of a new windless, and I decided to just forget about it and try it later. About 3 or four hours later, I went and tried to start and... PFM, it started up with a puff of black smoke and then a little white smoke I'm told by the boss lady. Did I mention she was in a floating lounge chair right behind the port engine exhaust? The next afternoon it again started fine. No smoke this time and we returned to the marina without issue. I talked to the marina mechanic and he said it was probably vapor lock. Some further information: No loss of oil pressure, and the temps. looked good right before it stalled. I believe that engine has a rough 300 hours on it. Anyone have any ideas on what it could be? I'd buy the vapor lock theory, but, in my mind that doesn't explain the stall. Maybe that could be the reason why it wouldn't restart immediately. Any thoughts would be appreciated.