So when we first took out my 96 La Brisa, we had some trouble getting it started. The guys I was with noticed I had a couple of disconnected/missing hoses.
here's a picture of a similar engine with the hose I'm missing circled. Appears to just be ventilation - do you think this would cause starting problems? One of the guys plugged it (at the oil fil cap) with his thumb and we eventually got the engine started. After it warmed up, we didn't really have to do it again - just give the boat a little bump in throttle before going back to neutral and starting it again. May have been purely coincidental.
I can't find any pics of the area where the second hose is - but it's a rigid tube coming from the bottom of the engine somewhere, which has a rubber hose attached to it near the top of the engine. It crosses over the top but then looks like it's just been cut off. I couldn't figure out where it was supposed to go.
I'll try to get a pic of it tonight.