Co2 poisoning

[haugy]

Where exactly do the exhaust fumes exit the water with fae?

When you are running, you're exhaust ports are actually above the waterline. Which gives all the exhaust an unrestricted and unfiltered flow right into your face if your surfing. On the older boats, it can be pretty bad.

From what I know of them, the FAE plumbs into your exhaust and routes it down and into the water so that not only does the exhaust bubbles catch the flow of boat movement and move backwards quickly. But the water also acts as a filter to help reduce the effects. Basically pumping the exhaust into the lake, instead of into the unrestricted air.

[Ptownkid]

Cool, that's what I figured but did not want to guess at it.

[86 century]

Unless they have ammended this law that went into effect last July, wake surfing is still legal in Indiana behind an Inboard. Here are a couple articles from Indiana papers when it came out. Not to say the exhaust fumes are not dangerous. I have some riders that are super sensitive and get head aches after a couple surfing runs where others can be back there all day. I personally had a bad experience with a houseboat and CO before detectors were mandatory. I always cut the engine when anyone is getting on the platform. Just not worth the chance something might happen.


You are correct sir I have been wrong this hole time. Thank you

I am off to get a wakesurf boa



Indiana DNR Conservation Officers would like to remind the public that, effective July, new laws will restrict “wake surfing” or “teak surfing” behind certain motorboats.

Teak surfing will become illegal behind all motorboats powered by an inboard engine, an inboard/outboard engine, or an outboard engine while the boat’s engine is running. This includes just hanging onto the swim platform while the motor is running. It is the boat operator’s responsibility to make sure this is not being done.

Wake surfing, on the other hand, will become illegal behind an inboard/outboard or an outboard motorboat. Additionally, it will be illegal to swim, float, or float on a board in the wake directly behind an inboard/outboard or an outboard motorboat that is underway.

The law itself:

Sec. 3. An individual may not do the following:

(1) Operate a motorboat inboard or have the inboard engine of a motorboat run idle while an individual is holding onto the swim platform, swim deck, swim step, swim ladder or any part of the exterior of the transom of a motorboat while the motorboat is underway at any speed.

(2) Operate a motorboat powered by an outboard motor or equipped with an outdrive unit while an individual is:

(A) holding onto the swim platform, swim deck, swim step, swim ladder or any portion of the exterior of the transom of a motorboat while the motorboat is underway at any speed;

(B) swimming, or floating on or in the wake directly behind a motorboat that is underway; or

(C) floating on a board on or in the wake directly behind a motorboat that is underway using the wake itself as the means of propulsion.

(3) Operate a motorboat with the number of individual riders on a towed device that exceeds the listed capacity on the towed device or the owner's manual.

ec. 4. An individual who violates this chapter commits a Class C infraction

New wake, teak surfing laws start Friday





By Amanda Jacobson
Staff Writer

Published: Thursday, June 30, 2011 5:08 PM CDT

Just in time for Independence Day weekend, Indiana conservation officers have announced a new wake and teak surfing law effective Friday.

The law will restrict wake surfing and teak surfing behind certain motorboats.

Indiana DNR Conservation Officer Gene Davis said the new laws were designed to keep those on the water safe from accidents and engine emissions.

Davis said the carbon monoxide emitted from a motorboat engine has given multiple teak surfers carbon monoxide poisoning in the past.



“It’s been a big enough problem throughout the state that this all needs to be passed so we can prevent people from doing it,” he said.

Wake surfing now will be prohibited behind an inboard/outboard or an outboard motorboat.

It also will be illegal to swim, float or float using a board in the wake directly behind an inboard/outboard or an outboard motorboat that is moving.

Teak surfing now will become illegal behind all motorboats powered by an inboard, inboard/outboard or strictly outboard engine while that engine is running. Holding onto the swim platform while the motor is running, even if the boat is still, will classify as teak surfing and will be illegal.

Davis said anyone violating the new law likely will be given a warning or citation. Citations in La Porte County can cost as much as $185, he said.

If a person operating a boat refuses to comply with the new law after a warning and citation have been given, Davis said they also may be asked to take a day off boating on Lake Michigan.

Call the Indiana Dunes State Park office at 926-1952 for additional information.

You are correct I have been wrong all along(LAST TIME I LISTEN TO MY MOTHER-IN-LAW)
Thank you


Again hope the kids are ok

[CornRickey]

Co disolving in water is minimal to none especially from a exhaust allowed to bubble to the surface not under pressure. Your benifits are the extended distance the exhaust is from the stern to were it surfaces as it compares to the rider.