PAN Pan Again but warily

[catmandoo]

If you holding tank overflowed in a busy anchorage or God forbid a marina would you be honest and raise an alarm or just keep your head (no pun intended ) down

 

[jhr]

Time for a lavatory pan Pan Pan?

 

[catmandoo]

Time for a lavatory pan Pan Pan?

or a Pan Pan Poo Poo

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

or a Pan Pan Poo Poo

That maydoo.....

 

[bobgoode]

or a Pan Pan Poo Poo

I pooh pooh your Pan Pan Pooh Pooh.

I would just keep my HEAD down.

 

[Grehan]

Erm, what could they make you do? Scoop it all up again?

 

[coliholic]

Never pooh pooh a pooh pooh, knew a chap once who pooh poohed a pooh pooh and they had to disband the regiment - Stephen Fry aka General Melchett Blackadder

 

[Chris_Robb]

Erm, what could they make you do? Scoop it all up again?

Grehan - taking about holding tanks - We are transitting the French Canal next spring. I presume you use holding tanks - so is there any where to pump out. Or do you just use shoreside facilities???

 

[bobgoode]

Never pooh pooh a pooh pooh, knew a chap once who pooh poohed a pooh pooh and they had to disband the regiment - Stephen Fry aka General Melchett Blackadder

Well spotted that man.

 

[lenseman]

If you holding tank overflowed in a busy anchorage or God forbid a marina would you be honest and raise an alarm or just keep your head (no pun intended ) down

Why don't you install one of those 'masticators' that are sold so you can install a toilet where you only have a 22mm bore foul outfall pipe?

I am sure you could then add plenty of marine or canal water as a wash-through during 'mastication' and no one will know.

The other trick is to never use a marina, river or canal.

 

[Grehan]

I presume you use holding tanks - so is there any where to pump out. Or do you just use shoreside facilities???

Er . .
Whisper it ever so quietly, but very few people have a holding tank. I mean very very very few. We do use shoreside facilities, but not . . all the time. Many of the hire boat places have pump-out facilities, I think they're now a requirement. But I've never seen a boat use one and I'm currently moored up almost opposite one.
I know this will bring horror to some and I'm aware of the British Waterways rules - and things are changing, more new river boats have tanks as standard, regulations etc. But the very low density of boats compared with the zillions of litres of canal/river water gives me no sleepless nights.

 

[lenseman]

Grehan - I like honest people.

 

[Chris_Robb]

Er . .
Whisper it ever so quietly, but very few people have a holding tank. I mean very very very few. We do use shoreside facilities, but not . . all the time. Many of the hire boat places have pump-out facilities, I think they're now a requirement. But I've never seen a boat use one and I'm currently moored up almost opposite one.
I know this will bring horror to some and I'm aware of the British Waterways rules - and things are changing, more new river boats have tanks as standard, regulations etc. But the very low density of boats compared with the zillions of litres of canal/river water gives me no sleepless nights.

I will be fitting a holding tank, but I was not going to bother doing a pump out hole, (although I will build in a capped off one to the tank for the future) so basically you just C$£%P in the water - oK! Simple.

 

[Grehan]

Not quite sure about if it's a Good Thing to fit a tank and then not pump out 'cos there's no pump out hole? I think I'd rather the stuff was . . . distributed 'on the go', as it were . . than collected and then, er, discharged in one fell/foul swoop into the waterway. Is that what you mean? I mean?

 

[photodog]

Holding tanks are the work of Satan.

I have two experiences of the buggers... both times blocked.

However the fact that we were pumping **** out of the breather ensured we got a mooring all to ourselves on the hottest day in August in Salcombe harbour......