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One point. That muffler isn't really a necessity for the operation of
the engine, in fact I have never owned a boat that had such a device.

You simply make sure that the exhaust hose goes down after leaving the
engine and if you are planning on making very long voyages without
using the engine you can add a "drain valve" to the exhaust pipe
coming out of the engine, just in case any water gets slopped up
there.

One philosophy that I found useful when "messing around in boats" is
"the less stuff you have, the less problems you have" :-)

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Yes, I know. I even have a length of pipe (which I've used before, when the
intake tube joint failed) to make the joint between the exhaust riser and
the exit hose if I remove the muffler from the path.

It's a simple, albeit a bit convoluted fix. In the unlikely event the
bottom blows out before we get back, I'll bypass it.

We're currently expecting very wet but manageable weather, and we might even
have enough wind to sail back once we're done with our on-the-way-out
explorations.

Stay tuned for the next log, still under way (stuff happening). So far it's
a lot of fun.

L8R

Skip, between the top of Nunjack/Manjack and Powell, on the way to
Cooperstown to check out all the seeming new development there since our
last Explorer Charts (you can see it in real time at the moment at the
spotwalla link in the original)

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