Patent ID: 6183324
Filing Date: 2001-02-06
Classification: B63H,F01N,F02B

Abstract:
A watercraft and exhaust system for an engine powering a water propulsion device of said watercraft, said watercraft having a hull with a front end and a rear end, said water propulsion device positioned near said rear end of said watercraft, said engine supported by said hull and positioned generally towards a front end of said watercraft from said water propulsion device and having an output shaft arranged to drive said water propulsion device, said engine having a body defining at least two in line cylinders, a first of said cylinders positioned towards an end of said body towards said front end of said watercraft and a second of said cylinders positioned towards an end of said body towards said rear end of said watercraft, said engine having an exhaust system defining an exhaust flow path from each of said cylinders to an atmospheric discharge through said hull at said rear of said watercraft, first portions of said exhaust system extending independently from each of said first and said second cylinders extending within said hull towards said front end of said watercraft forwardly of said engine and a second portion of said exhaust system communicating with said first portions extending rearward within said hull to the atmospheric discharge.