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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
At 8:52 this morning, a ski-boat opened up his exhaust: this is not a no-wake area.
SBONH has opened the door for those who already had a switchable exhaust—and they are now opening them up.  |
APS, make sure you have all your facts and an understanding before you make a post like this. By a Ski boat, I am sure you are referring to a true inboard ski boat like a ski natique, mastercraft or the like. These boats never have switchable exhausts. why? because they don't need them. There exhaust is routed below the water line, and when at idle or no wake speed, the exhuast under water.. which makes a wonderful bubbling sound. They have internal baffles which keep the water from back flowing to the engine and muffling system. Upon leaping to plane these boats suddenly have the exhaust above water, and it produces some noise. If anything the boat you heard, probably had the muffling device that most of these boats have, removed. Thus was noisier then most. However this is not a case of switchable exhaust.