oldbloke
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Terrible way to treat your old mum
Etiquette/Laws on Holding tanks
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Slowboat35
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And everyone buys the marina desk clerk a beer - if even that - and the card is duly stamped.
Yet if there is the tiniest streak of washing-up bubbles under your counter when the Suhail Güvenlik roar into the bay in their 10 Gallons per mile Class 1 offshore powerboat you get screwed $500 no questions no argument.
And the gulet/picnic boat that anchors in the bay next to you covers its entire suface with a film of noxious grey scum within minutes of arrival...And none has been apprehended in living memory...
At anchor in Greece an early morning swimmy-dump shows the fish deal with the effluent totally inside five minutes. Not a shred is left.
OK, questions of scale remain, but on a normal level and in open waters what exactly is the problem?
In landlocked waters such as small rivers, canals and marinas dumping overboard is clearly not acceptable.
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Chiara’s slave
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Our pump out seacock remains firmly closed today, we haven't left our mooring yet. We’ll do that about 3 miles off Chistchurch tomorrow. Nothing nasty in there, residents will be glad to know.
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Swimmy dump?? Thats a new one on me. Do you get in a particular position? Or well timed during a slow breast stroke? Anyway its interesting to hear that land based biological matter is eaten in the marine world. I guessed it must be or the Thames Bovril boats would have quickly caused a catastrophe. I had the opposite experience though. One cold night (emphasis on once) I took a midnight dump in a marina, slowly pumping the toilet as discreetly as possible. The next morning the sun shone a beam of light between the pontoon and boat perfectly illuminating a pristine pile of poo directly under the boat
. On land it doesn't last long unless like 21st century dog walkers we preserve the poo in a plastic bag before hanging it in a bush out of reach of ground creatures, but in the water I feared there wasn't the infrastructure to dispose of land mammal waste.
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Tranona
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Unsurprising given non tidal waters, lots of boats in marinas or moored in shallow water close to beaches. Very different from conditions in other parts of the world. 8 charterers all using the on board loo facilities while anchored in a bay would indeed be environmentally unfriendly.
Slowboat35
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Necessitated by a boat with inop head.
Easier and rather more decorous than bucket and chuckit.
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Still seems fraught with danger of receiving an unwelcome fake tan. I'd want some momentum through the water before letting go I think.