I am in Victoria, but the boat stays in Sooke and is currently in a slip in a Marina. This is a fairly new 9.9ht without a lot of hours on it.
We have worked on kickers in the water before by backing the boat into the slip, which gives us access to the kicker on the pod. We have replaced T-stats, plugs etc on a previous kicker this way, but I think removing a carb would be a bit much for this method. Awkward, down low on the water, and too much risk of dropping small parts in the bottom of the cowl or overboard.
To work on the kicker for this, we would have to pull the boat and remove the carb, or remove the hard mounted remote control kicker and bring it to Victoria. That is actually a bit of work.