Holding tank chemicals

[maby]

One pragmatic way if you are in a marina for a while is to leave the valve open but go to the marina loos for solids (and obviously not flush any paper down). I have seen people swim in marinas but I always think they are braver than me.

As I said a number of posts up, that is what we normally do. In the depths of winter, we may close the tank valve and use the heads for more solid functions rather than walk along a dark pontoon in driving rain at 3am - but we will then either use the marina pump-out if there is one, or pop out a few miles to dump the tank.

 

[RupertW]

As I said a number of posts up, that is what we normally do. In the depths of winter, we may close the tank valve and use the heads for more solid functions rather than walk along a dark pontoon in driving rain at 3am - but we will then either use the marina pump-out if there is one, or pop out a few miles to dump the tank.

We tend to be in a fixed mindset for our Winter maintenance visits and never take the boat out, although your post makes me wonder why that habit has developed. I think it's partly because we concentrate on a list of tasks (I won't say jobs on this thread), but thinking about it we wasted some lovely afternoons when a 2 hour sail would have blown away a few cobwebs.

 

[maby]

We tend to be in a fixed mindset for our Winter maintenance visits and never take the boat out, although your post makes me wonder why that habit has developed. I think it's partly because we concentrate on a list of tasks (I won't say jobs on this thread), but thinking about it we wasted some lovely afternoons when a 2 hour sail would have blown away a few cobwebs.

Definitely - provided you have good gear, winter sailing can be fantastic. We sail the year round - and use the boat as our country cottage - we will often be resident in the winter without actually moving it.

 

[RupertW]

Definitely - provided you have good gear, winter sailing can be fantastic. We sail the year round - and use the boat as our country cottage - we will often be resident in the winter without actually moving it.

The cottage bit is us too but unlike you we never move it between April and October but we need to get over all the hassle of untying all the winter ropes and have to park and unpark. After all that's situation normal for the warm months.

 

[maby]

The cottage bit is us too but unlike you we never move it between April and October but we need to get over all the hassle of untying all the winter ropes and have to park and unpark. After all that's situation normal for the warm months.

Indeed - boats are expensive things to own and you don't get charged extra for using it in the winter - you are in danger of wasting half your mooring fees!