Holding tanks : Brittany.

[Sybarite]

I have recently received a memo from the marina reminding us that using the heads in a marina or in a anchorage makes you liable to a €4000 fine. You are similarly instructed not to wash dishes there either and that you are to use wash inks in the "sanitaires".

 

[Caladh]

I have recently received a memo from the marina reminding us that using the heads in a marina or in a anchorage makes you liable to a €4000 fine. You are similarly instructed not to wash dishes there either and that you are to use wash inks in the "sanitaires".

Which marina?

 

[Poignard]

Can't use the heads?

Have to be the old bucket and chuck-it then.

 

[Roberto]

Hello John,
and as usual, a lot of people on the boats, still around 8-9am toilets are almost empty, no one in the "Vaisselle" dish washing areas...

 

[LittleSister]

I have recently received a memo from the marina reminding us that using the heads in a marina or in a anchorage makes you liable to a €4000 fine. You are similarly instructed not to wash dishes there either and that you are to use wash inks in the "sanitaires".

I know the French are big into public enterprise, but I hadn't realised they'd equipped all anchorages with sanitaires.

 

[Sandy]

While easily policed in a marina how are they going to police it in an anchorage?

I may or may not have had a wee while swimming this afternoon, am I at risk of being fined?

 

[mjcoon]

Watch out for innocent-seeming sniffer-dogs swimming around...

 

[mjcoon]

Some Turkish areas are getting sensitive about tank emptying too. But at least they have installed some shore-side pump-out stations or honey-barges that do the pumping out and then dump it all on your behalf!

 

[Sybarite]

Which marina?

All marinas.

 

[michael_w]

French boats always seem to do their washing up in a bucket on the pontoon, irrespective of how big the boat is.

Maybe it's a national quirk. Like Brits going in for guardrail dodgers, the Dutch having dreadful hull graphics, the Americans dozens of jerry cans strapped to the side deck. Etc, Etc

 

[Frogmogman]

You are similarly instructed not to wash dishes there either and that you are to use wash inks in the "sanitaires".

Cunning plan to encourage yachtsmen to spend money in the local hostelries instead of eating on board.

 

[mjcoon]

French boats always seem to do their washing up in a bucket on the pontoon, irrespective of how big the boat is.

Presumably the size of the bucket matches the size of the boat... What happens to the dirty water?

 

[Roberto]

French boats always seem to do their washing up in a bucket on the pontoon, irrespective of how big the boat is.

Indeed I often do especially when there is a load to wash Two reasons, one I find a lot easier to wash soap and rinse in a larger area than my tiny galley sink and workplan, two it delays the moment when I have to fill the tanks again, a bit of a chore to me.
cheers

 

[RupertW]

We shower, wash up and mostly use our own heads with holding tanks rather than marina facilities. Nothing at all wrong with most marina loo blocks but I wouldn’t leave my house to use a communal facility and it feels the same.

I would not enjoy being subject to “no washing up” rules.

 

[Sybarite]

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