If Jimi's got a holding tank there should be no where to hang the oilies as it sits in the wet hanging area behind the bog on the 331. Do the smells persist all day are are they just a morning after phenomena?
I spend hours each day here - advising, guiding, counselling, educating, humouring, researching, supporting, theorising, speculating, donating, suggesting, communicating and I go and get a blasted award for the clothes I wear.
Will there be a garden party after the Ceremony? I'm away from the last week in July until Late August/Early September - will this fit around my diary?
The garden parties are not recommended. 3000 or more people are invitedand the cost is reported as "over £20,000" which means there's no booze, and the fishpaste sandwiches (which we proles are suposed to like) are very curly.
With your absence, I would be happy to accept your award for you "in absentia" but note that you can use you title immediately.
yours etc
Sir Reverend Tcm, Distinguished Sevice Outdoors (and in the bar)
I don't remember any wet hanging area at all! Jimi?
The smewll is there all the time, and doubly awful knockdowndead force 7 even in cockpit if someone actually uses the loo. However, the boat sails very well and not too skittish
I'm going to have to go (so to speak) and have a look this evening ... but .. how do these holding tank thingies work ... I'd have thought if it were full you'd be unable to use the bog?
seriously, i think you are right. I certainly hope you are. With a holding tank there would often be a deck pumpout a bit like a water filler. I didn't see this, but it smelled a bit ghastly from cockpit even with nose to outside the shitehood. I mean, spray hood.
Normally, with a holding tank there is a slightly wiffy smell (thiough not that bad!) but if the raw sewage goes straight out - why the smell?
The holding tank in yr boat i think would be a box about suitcase-size, with pipes into it. I would open/unscrew a few panels around the bog, very carefully, and all the while keep bits of bogroll up nose and Vicks smeared under nose.
If there is a tee-valve in the piperery, that signals a htank as sometimes it can go to the tank, other times outside.
Overall, though, i wd say that that the prob is a wiffy/leaky pipe to be replaced, otherwise surely we would have all dropped dead when looking at the engine?
If you like I can assist whilst you are looking, or make some food for later? I really fancy something like meatballs, or perhaps pea and ham soup.
Jamesie
Best get the vhf and the mobile switched on just in case.
A friend of mine pressurised his bog to clear an apparent blockage to no avail so he thought he'd take one of the pipes off. One half turn of the jubilee clip was enough and he watched amazed as the pipe quietly but relentlessly slid off the bog coupling.
There was a considerable bang really and a lot of mess. The most interesting part for those casual onlookers in attendance was to see Trevor's (for that was his name) outline depicted against the wood of the hanging locker behind him. Apparently this also happened at Hiroshima when they dropped the bomb.
Hope this helps
Don't worry if you can't make it. It can be sent in the post. That'll be £5.95, p&p sir, please, for Parcel Farce. Or 400 guineas for guaranteed next day delivery by a postillion.
The Bog on Glen Rosa had died
Jim the Jock he would fix it with pride
He gave it a crack but the bog it spat back
And now they're interred side by side