It won't, esp if there is any kind of wind or current.

Get the motor to a shop ASAP and find some place to hunt that maybe you can row too for opening day. I know your pain. The same thing happened to my dad and I a few years back. We were lucky to have an old 6 horse Evinrude we had just got fixed up as a back up. It was a piece of sh*t, idled bad, ran at most 1/2 a horse in reverse, but it got us through the 1st day.

Good Luck.

Any day spent huntin, is better than any day spent workin,,

Duckmastor2