A big crappy problem!

[penfold]

I'm sure I read somewhere that that had been done. The engineer on a ship cross-connected the sewage settling tank to the fire hose system, and "discouraged" a boatload of pirates. Can't find a link now unfortunately.

Pete

Contemplating the danger of inadvertent blowback while plumbing such a system is giving me the fear.

It is fabled that the dusty YBW archives contain a tale of holding tank/cludgy/footpump related woe of such heroic proportions that it was censored for the good of the industry; I think HLB and a certain Muckyfarter may have been involved. Does it still exist?

 

[Philthy]

This thread has put a smile on my face
My problem is getting on the tiny bowl. How can one put this delicately...... it is difficult to get everything in it at the same time ?

Anyway OP, man up, and get one of these:

 

[Keith 66]

A friend of mine sadly deceased told a tale of woe involving a blocked holding tank. Now this was on a tanker on the west coast of Africa. The Captain immaculately dressed in tropical whites retired to the heads with his sunday paper, far below in the bowels of the ship a third engineer was trying to unblock the ships main sewage holding tank that was rather full, in a stroke of inspiration he had the wonderful idea of connecting the ships compressed air supply to the tank. Upon cracking the valve open the Skipper was pinned to the deckhead by a brown geyser & emerged not so white & exceedingly cross. History did not relate the fate of the third engineer responsible but it was no doubt horrible.

 

[ColdFusion]

...History did not relate the fate of the third engineer responsible but it was no doubt horrible.

Should that be 'turd engineer' ?

 

[edmundwigan]

All in the best possible taste....

It is very sad that our colleague's problem is being treated with such juvenile humour. We had a similar problem and solved it by connecting the toilet outlet to the bowthruster tube. By taking the bowthruster wireless remote into the heads when you press the button the bowthruster rotates and the venturi effect sucks out the effluent at high speed.

The real advantage of this system is when rafted up with noisy or inconsiderate neighbours...........you can choose port or starboard. If sailing at more than 10 degrees of heel it can also act as a jet ski deterrent.

I hope this serious reply is of help. Have fun

Edmund

 

[SimbaDog]

What you need to do is drink more Kate loves Willy Skinners ale, that seemed to do the trick this weekend

 

[cgull]

I always considered that the outlet pipe through the hull is probably the same size as the hole from which the turd originally exited, so therefore it must be possible for it to pass out easily!

 

[Lakesailor]

Ah, but is the outlet hole in the hull stretchy?

 

[Ubergeekian]

Ah, but is the outlet hole in the hull stretchy?

Why does that make me think of these remarkable tasteful tea towel holders?

 

[whisper]

You are not alone.

Well I suppose it is about time this one went down the pan.
To be honest a lot of the answers were ****
I will just have to log it down to experience
I have been floating between a couple of things to try but in the end I doubt that anything will leave me flushed with a solution. I need to get rid of the big fried breakfasts. Then again I could just keep with the beating stick.
Hopefully this will bring this post to an end, after all only a bum could write a post like this.

Had/have the same problem on sailing boats. My method of chopping the log into pieces, with a knife from the galley, and flushing "as we go" seems to work most of the time.

One of the reasons I bought a mo-bo rather than a yacht was the fact that journey times are much quicker so you don't need to keep your cheeks clenched for so long before reaching "proper facilities".

 

[30boat]

Had/have the same problem on sailing boats. My method of chopping the log into pieces, with a knife from the galley, and flushing "as we go" seems to work most of the time.

One of the reasons I bought a mo-bo rather than a yacht was the fact that journey times are much quicker so you don't need to keep your cheeks clenched for so long before reaching "proper facilities".

I shudder to think of when not even the knife gets the work done.And does it return to the galley afterwards?

 

[whisper]

Of course. Thrown back in the cutlery drawer (after washing!!) so no one knows its recent history.