Put my Scarab 29 with IMCO steering in the lake last night (normally we run longer distances in salt water) and we were doing some drinking and swimming where 3 or 4 times I started the motors and ran us a few hundred yards and shut down and drifted. 4th time I had no hydraulic steering at all. Motor would idle fine but when I gave it power it wouldn't move well and plane. I shut it down and looked for something? Started back up and everything worked normal again. Anyone experienced this or have an idea??

Dave

For full hydraulic steering it may have air in the line, now if this is power steering then you may have a loose steering cable, low fluid level or maybe the ram/pump going out.