97 GT40 sudden motor shutoff hard or want start

Took my 1997 SN GT-40 out to the lake yesterday. Boat started and ran great initially. While pulling my daughter boat shuts down abruptly. It was like I pulled the lanyard to the kill switch. The switch did not get pulled but I still thought it had to be a problem because I cycled the kill switch a couple of times and tried to start the boat and it fired back up. This happened a couple of times while on the lake and boat ran fine when running. I wasn’t to worried about it because I thought if it ever shut down and I couldn’t jiggle the kill switch I would just bypass the switch while on the lake and fix it when I got the boat home. Well I got the opportunity to bypass the switch and this was/is not the problem. Motor/starter turns over but boat doesn’t run. I did get it to run after about an hour trying to get it to run and made my way to the boat ramp as quick as I could. With the boat finally on the trailer I shut the boat down and tried to re-start. It did not start. Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your comments. I have searched the website but could not find anything quiet like my problem.

Yes starter will always crank. I bypassed the laynyard by connecting the two wires attached to it. This is correct right?

update: I decided to drain the FCC just to see if trash/water was in the bowl. I removed the bowl plug and gas started to flow out of the drain like it should. Shouldnt the gas stop flowing out of the drain? I filled up 3.5quarts of gas and it was still flowing. Does this make sense? Probably a dumb question but I dont know.

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It was the Relay. Thanks so much for the help.