Patent ID: 6739922
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: B63H,F01N

Abstract:
A personal watercraft having an internal combustion engine disposed in a body thereof, for driving a water jet pump, comprising:a transom board; an exhaust outlet formed in the transom board at a rear end of an exhaust passage extending from an exhaust port of the engine to the transom board so as to open rearwardly; a flexible sheet member disposed at the exhaust outlet and having a closing portion capable of opening/closing the exhaust outlet by an exhaust pressure of an exhaust gas of the engine; a short pipe mounted to an outside of the transom board and extending rearwardly from the transom board so as to surround the closing portion of the sheet member, for introducing the exhaust gas rearwardly; and a press member for mounting the sheet member and the short pipe to the transom board, wherein the press member has a mounting portion for mounting the sheet member and the short pipe to the transom board from behind the body.