as i have mentioned before i am a newbie to boats and dont know a hole lot of people that have and run them. i have a 1988 sunchaser 17 footer with a 3.o mercruiser and alpha 1 out drive i got it fired up today on the muffs and was just watching things over to see how they were working and i got to noticing that the return water was comning out an area outside the boat but before the outdrive right by the transome i looked at the corgated rubber boot that goes through the transome but it does not appier to be torn (at least the small area of it that i can see) and it only has the water coming out when it is running is this normal?? i thought that the exhost cam out from the center of the prop can some one please give me an inside of what is going in and what it might take to fix it and can it be place on the water and ran as it is if i need to get a picture of what is going on i might be able to do that please inform and tanks in advance for all your help