"Bart Senior" wrote in message
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| You are probably getting water coming in from the exhaust.
|
| It happened on a boat I taught on when in big following seas.
|
| A flapper valve on the exhaust would help. I have a gate valve on
| mine, and I'm considering putting a ball valve on it to make it
| easy to secure.

My buddy did that to his boat on the Trans Atlantic. He said the insurance
company frowned on the idea... but he installed it anyway. He used a ball
valve.

CM