The Cape Dory Board

Chances are if the water is flowing freely out your exhaust at idle, it is passing freely through the heat-exchanger. I wrestled with overheating of a TMD-40A for six months before I discovered that the previous owner had, at some time in the past, let the impeller deteriorate to the point that a bl...

John, Never had a problem with damaging the extension. I suppose if you backed hard into a pier ........... I considered PVC pipe, but decided that I did not know how PVC stands up to salt water/hot exhaust water/exhaust gases, so went with the known, which is the same exhaust hose one finds on the ...

John, Both my transom and cockpit were foul from exhaust soot, and if for one reason or another - e.g.; towing - I was making smoke, the cockpit was an unpleasant place to be. On the advice and with the assistance of the Chesapeake Cove Marina in Deltaville, VA, I installed an extension which consis...

They are made by Spartan. Don't have catalogue any more, but they're still in business. Good company. Try "Spartan Marine Hardware" on Google. They're now part of Robinhood Marine in Maine.

Murphy's Law:

The Lookout Corollary - The Law of Gross Tonnage is immutable.

The Cartographic Corollary - Your destination will always be at the junction of four charts.

The Meteorological Corollary - Mother Nature is a bitch.

Try an older edition of Knight's "Modern Seamanship". Fascinating!