How old is your exhaust hose?

[burgundyben]

I wonder how old are the exhaust hoses on your boat?

I have found a collapsed and leaking section on one of mine, its ten years old, engines are coming out this winter and I plan to replace them as a matter of course, but looking at the section which is difficult to view as I have this afternoon, I'd have done it years ago.

As it happens, I'm going to replace every section of hose on the boat.

 

[rosssavage]

Port is three years, stbd two. Same reason - collapsed internally, although probably twenty year old original fit. Mates p414 had his stbd one split, which could have sunk the boat (exhaust exits below w/l). I use a maplin underwater CCTV camera on a stick for annual internal inspections.

 

[Nick_H]

Funnily enough I was looking through the maintenance schedule in the user manual of the Princess, and it says you should replace exhause hoses every 2-3 years. I'm pretty sure not many people do that, but I think i'll replace mine this winter as a preventative measure as boat is 7 yrs old.

 

[burgundyben]

Funnily enough I was looking through the maintenance schedule in the user manual of the Princess, and it says you should replace exhause hoses every 2-3 years. I'm pretty sure not many people do that, but I think i'll replace mine this winter as a preventative measure as boat is 7 yrs old.

Crikey, I'd have thought they should last longer than that. Mine exit right on the waterline, if full of fuel they are submerger in which case a failure would sink her, hence I was planning on doing it this year anyway.

I suspect there are a lot of very old ones out there.

 

[Sans Bateau]

I wonder how old are the exhaust hoses on your boat?

I have found a collapsed and leaking section on one of mine, its ten years old, engines are coming out this winter and I plan to replace them as a matter of course, but looking at the section which is difficult to view as I have this afternoon, I'd have done it years ago.

As it happens, I'm going to replace every section of hose on the boat.

Very good point, I know its a sailing boat I own, but it still has an engine and exhaust hose! I replaced mine just a few years ago when it partly collapsed and tried to fill the boat with water! Its one of those out of sight out of mind items that can get forgotten. When I got the old hose out it just broke up and crumbled.