Green Boating

[Stingo]

THIS linked arrived by email from a boating site where Stingo is listed for sale. Just thought I would share it with you even though you probably all follow the suggestions anyway.

 

[Danny Jo]

Thanks for the link. Tip number 4 was a surprise to me. [ QUOTE ]
Never use soap to disperse fuel and oil spills. It increases harm to the environment, and it is illegal. Boat oil pollution fact sheet

[And from the fact sheet] Oil mixed with detergent coats fish gills and can cause suffocation

[/ QUOTE ] I have observed considerable variation among those serving diesel, from Falmouth, where she took enormous trouble to prevent the slightest drop entering the water, to Holyhead, where he said, after splashing what seemed like a litre over the side "Have you got any Fairy liquid - that'll get rid of it."

 

[Cornishman]

I was a bit confused by that, too. Then I remembered that we are two nations divided by a common language. Further on I read "phosphate free soap" and that confirmed that we would have written "detergent". There is a difference.

 

[pelicanpete]

Yes, that website is written for and by our American cousins; hence the soap reference (aka detergent) is not illegal in the UK.