Very Little is "Off the Shelf"!

In getting the exhaust gas eighteen inches from the engine through muffler to the hot water tank, there are  very few straight runs. Of course, the whole lot runs near the base of the hull, and the muffler itself is an odd geometry. Here, at the bottom of the page, are both the rear end (pipe and flange) which connects to the waer heater, and the front end (special bellows...more story of that in another post)  which connects to the engine .

John has reduced the size of the hot water tank so as to better accommodate the cockpit drains, but it too is slightly odd. He pointed out that in my last post I said the exhaust had boiled off the water.  Actually, what happened was that the steam generated by boiling the tank burst the pipes, after first blowing the water tank up like a balloon, so to this day, the ends of the tank are curiously bowed, and thus the bottom does not sit flat either.

ps to my friend Bernie: it's not hard to get to the boat: we have a path through the woods...here it is-