steve_cronin
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.. is the biggest surprise to me.
Pumping raw sewage out into harbours, bays & river estuaries that is.
There isn't a facility to post pictures on these YBW sites but just picture a scene of an idyllic anchorage like Studland Bay or Newtown River on a warm Saturday evening. Lots of boats, full of families or other groups enjoying the sun and general bonhomie of life afloat - you just can't beat it!
Now, digital air-brush in hand remove all those floating pride and joys and substitute a cut and pasted khazi like the one Albert got locked into in Steptoe's Scrapyard for each removed yacht ( two for some of the big ones) Then show the "improved" or to be more accurate "REALISTIC" scene to your friends. Yes it will be greeted by gasps of horror
For that's what each of these places AND Yarmouth Harbour will become during the dark hours and the following early morning. (In Yarmouth the " reprocessed" output of the Kings Head, the George, The Bugle AND Salties will be discreetly deposited into the harbour before 10am.) We all know that it goes on and that the number of boats with holding tanks is a very small proportion of the total.
It is easy to fit one of those surround tanks made for ITT's RM 69's etc. They won't last a long stay but will cope with a family's output for a weekend which must be the main source of pollution.
And it isn't just the UK. In Greece now very few new charter boats are getting fitted with holding tanks because the long runs of piping needed in modern flat bottomed hulls to a suitable tank location causes blockages. It's the paper but these blockages can be minimised if you only supply "Porta Potti" paper because it is made so as to dissolve quickly.
Is this another case of the "Problem who's name shall never be spake?"
Lets get with it before not only do we get branded as the lushes relying on a legacy funded "RAC" get-you-home service in the guise of the RNLI but also get hit with the label of "the polluters of the British coastal heritage" from our "privileged" & "posh" position as boat owners.
Steve Cronin
Pumping raw sewage out into harbours, bays & river estuaries that is.
There isn't a facility to post pictures on these YBW sites but just picture a scene of an idyllic anchorage like Studland Bay or Newtown River on a warm Saturday evening. Lots of boats, full of families or other groups enjoying the sun and general bonhomie of life afloat - you just can't beat it!
Now, digital air-brush in hand remove all those floating pride and joys and substitute a cut and pasted khazi like the one Albert got locked into in Steptoe's Scrapyard for each removed yacht ( two for some of the big ones) Then show the "improved" or to be more accurate "REALISTIC" scene to your friends. Yes it will be greeted by gasps of horror
For that's what each of these places AND Yarmouth Harbour will become during the dark hours and the following early morning. (In Yarmouth the " reprocessed" output of the Kings Head, the George, The Bugle AND Salties will be discreetly deposited into the harbour before 10am.) We all know that it goes on and that the number of boats with holding tanks is a very small proportion of the total.
It is easy to fit one of those surround tanks made for ITT's RM 69's etc. They won't last a long stay but will cope with a family's output for a weekend which must be the main source of pollution.
And it isn't just the UK. In Greece now very few new charter boats are getting fitted with holding tanks because the long runs of piping needed in modern flat bottomed hulls to a suitable tank location causes blockages. It's the paper but these blockages can be minimised if you only supply "Porta Potti" paper because it is made so as to dissolve quickly.
Is this another case of the "Problem who's name shall never be spake?"
Lets get with it before not only do we get branded as the lushes relying on a legacy funded "RAC" get-you-home service in the guise of the RNLI but also get hit with the label of "the polluters of the British coastal heritage" from our "privileged" & "posh" position as boat owners.
Steve Cronin
