Not just your Pearson but standard for all boats is lever forward means boat goes forward.
If yours works the other way then I would suspect the PO did something wrong it the course of a repair.
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Agree, but a friend had a Pearson Triton with an Atomic 4 many years ago. You pulled back on the shift lever to go forward.
Was that original from the factory or the result of a later modification or repair?
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
That was a factory installation. This was a direct drive A4. You took an access plate off in the floor of the cockpit and put a long metal lever into a fitting. No cables!