NormanS
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So there's someone comes aboard your boat daily to empty your pedal bin?
It would never work in the Hebrides.
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So there's someone comes aboard your boat daily to empty your pedal bin?
It would never work in the Hebrides.
mjcoon
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I've only been to Turkey and Greece in summer (for the warmth!). But I don't think that is a disadvantage in this aspect because it means that effluent dries out quickly and ventilation is usually vey good. I've already mentioned using nappy sacks to seal up used paper on board and make it possible to compress them into minimum space.
Mike.
mjcoon
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So there's someone comes aboard your boat daily to empty your pedal bin?
It would never work in the Hebrides.
Certainly not on any bareboat or flotilla yacht I've been on! Holidaymakers are resonsible for all domestic and sailing matters. Sensible people have a plastic bag in their bin, just as they would in the galley. Haven't been to Hebrides, so cannot comment on that...
Mike.
NormanS
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Well, I'll just keep on pumping my ****ty paper out as normal.
tjanna
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What is your next thread going to be about? Anti Foul, Dogs aboard?
Most people are graced with common sense. The only thing that should go into a sea toilet is what you ingest, nappy sack the rest.
Don't flush number two's till out of the harbour.
If you don't feel you could morally cope, then bag it, bottle it and take it home with you.
King Penguin
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Why are we all obsessed about a bit of natural poo, surely the exhaust nasties from our dirty Diesel (and petrol, Dylan) engines are far worse for the marine environment...........discuss!
Grumpybear
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Quite often coastal sewage treatment improvement schemes have as one of their objectives improving the products of shell fisheries. surprisingly (not) the outcome is usually a reduction in the size and number of the little critters and howls of bewilderment from the shellfish farmers, restaurateurs etc who lobbied for the works to be done at somebody else's considerable expense.
Seajet
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Dylan,
I have skipped the last pages, sorry but your anti-2 stroke stance upset me as it wasn't factual, just thinking of thousand year old Seagulls.
A Porta Potti can be used when the boat is aground, or when people are around without embarassment - maybe not marinas for you but you seem to have been ' alongside pontoons ' a fair few times.
Porta Pottis don't smell unless the seals have aged - say 15 years - when one simply buys a new bog, I don't fancy changing seals but that's the cheap, available alternative.
The chemicals available are now ' green ' in every way, and one easily can take the holding tank to a shoreside loo to empty, it has a handle like a briefcase.
No holes in the hull or seacocks to get stuck, leak, blow out in lightning strikes or generally maintain, and it seems we're all going to have to have holding tanks in future so these things have a major head start without very expensive hassle fitting a tank.
I agree things were different in ' the old days ' 35 years ago; when our first caravan type chemical loo seals packed up we left it by a skip; it was several weeks before the thing got taken, we always reckoned it eventually went to Porton Down...
I have skipped the last pages, sorry but your anti-2 stroke stance upset me as it wasn't factual, just thinking of thousand year old Seagulls.
A Porta Potti can be used when the boat is aground, or when people are around without embarassment - maybe not marinas for you but you seem to have been ' alongside pontoons ' a fair few times.
Porta Pottis don't smell unless the seals have aged - say 15 years - when one simply buys a new bog, I don't fancy changing seals but that's the cheap, available alternative.
The chemicals available are now ' green ' in every way, and one easily can take the holding tank to a shoreside loo to empty, it has a handle like a briefcase.
No holes in the hull or seacocks to get stuck, leak, blow out in lightning strikes or generally maintain, and it seems we're all going to have to have holding tanks in future so these things have a major head start without very expensive hassle fitting a tank.
I agree things were different in ' the old days ' 35 years ago; when our first caravan type chemical loo seals packed up we left it by a skip; it was several weeks before the thing got taken, we always reckoned it eventually went to Porton Down...
Keen_Ed
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