It’s not that hard , I have done it twice cause I screwed up the first time. Get a rubber football and when you remove the exhaust you will get a slow flow of water coming in from hull exhaust , shove the football into the rubber boot that the exhaust pipe was connected to and that will stop the...
With a house in AZ and the hard water there you probably have a water softener and copper pipes. If so it is a very good practice to turn off your house water when your not there since water softeners remove minerals and the water will try and make itself whole again and will attack the copper pipes
I had the same problem with the Samsung in my motor home and I removed the back of the TV and a number of the capacitors on the control board had black specks which were signs of leakage so I bought new capacitors online and replaced them and all good
I see here the numbers for cupping below the light / medium / heavy but don’t know much more than that. Maybe give DeepBlueYachtSupply.com a call and see what they have to say
I usually run a bit heavy as well since I prefer to keep fuel and water full or near full and I carry extra fresh water plus I have a hydraulic swim platform with a Zodiac Yachtline dinghy with 40hp motor weighing in at 700lbs
I have tested it both with and without the dinghy and the fuel burn...
This is a common thing with the 44DB but not a big deal, I bought 315Lbs of lead bars and put them under the port guest bed in the outer groove and boat sets nice now.