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I like that installation...nice and high before the turn into the water injection. Nice work.

Three wraps should do it and foil tape to keep it from "shedding".

 

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Very nice work, and I may emulate it as I really, really hate certain conventional aspects of exhaust design in sailboats.

 

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I guess I'm wrong since it hasn't been mentioned, but I thought ALL marine exhausts had to be "wet" exhausts to pass CG approval.

It's an open question, however, where the "wet" part enters the equation. Most marine exhausts are wet for reasons of noise, not safety, although obviously an f/g boat will burn easier than a steel one.

In the example above provided by Kaluvic, the mixing elbow is below the waterline, but also ahead of the "turn" of the exhaust, which to my mind has many advantages over the more typical "mix in water just past the manifold and down a bit", because the waterlift and the anti-siphon valve in the typical "loop" can be points of clog or failure or backsiphoning due to sea conditions or overcranking.

I've had such failures, and now before we go tootling around the world, I want to solve them in a permanent way.

 

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Just on general principles I like the second diagram better than the first, as long as the indeed-critical issues of back pressure and corrosion are dealt with.

My personal situation on my boat is simplified greatly in one respect by having the exhaust on the starboard side of the hull, NOT at the transom. However, motorsailing on starboard with the exhaust submerged means I have to figure my angles well and I am thinking I want to put in a ball valve at the hull to shut while sailing.

Has anyone priced a three-inch ball valve in bronze? I have...eeep!!