Using on board shower in a marina

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I have recently taken delivery of a boat with a shower (albeit very limited) in the heads. What is the etiquette regarding using it in a marina where the marina showers leave something to be desired? I have been told that it is not frowned upon but I have my doubts. What do other forumites think/do?
 
I don't give a flying dogs whatzit, if it's raining cats and dogs and there's a queue for the shower, why not use it? Why use up a shower that someone else could be using?
 
Probably puts less of a "load" on the bio-degrading system in the marina than washing up water.

I am happy to use ours in an open tidal harbor, as opposed to a locked in basin, but even there I would use it, just be very frugal with shower gel/soap.

I don't wash as much on holiday as I do the rest of the time. Work makes you dirty, sailing doesn't.
 
We have used our on board shower in marinas for some time now, no problem. We use bio friendly shower gel (I think), well its more bio friendly than antifoul, spilt diesel, 2 stoke exhaust, spilt oil plus all the other crap.
 
we use our's all the time in france. I protest spending 2 euros for a shower when they provide water and electric to heat the water on the pontoon. 2 x showers (4 euros) is a half decent bottle of wine for me and SWMBO to drink a night /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Generally in the uk unless they look rather rank and i have to pay i use marina facilities.
 
I have to say I think my morals would lean away from this. Although that said I'm probably just jealous that I don't have a shower. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Seriously though, granted antifoul and the rest of it is not nice, but some marinas (most?) have plenty of fish and such living in them, and it seems a bit wrong to be pumping soapy water at them.

I see from the previous posts though that this one shall be much on the loosing side of things but you did ask for opinions /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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What is the etiquette regarding using it in a marina ........................... I have been told that it is not frowned upon but I have my doubts.

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Etiquette? Where's the etiquette in using a filthy marina shower? I would avoid using the sea toilet in a marina behind lock gates but other than that, what I do in my boat is no -one else's business.

Who did the "I've been told " bit? Marina manager?
 
See H/T thread on Liveaboard forum. While probably most folk will disagree with discharge of black water (altho maybe doing it anyway), grey water is ... well, grey. One can put as much Ecover as poss in washing up water, but final output is grease and chemicals. Is this reallly better than a turd output?
 
Yes. If you prefer turds to grease and chemicals, ask for one in a bun when you go for a Macdonalds

Edited. That comes over as rude and I dont mean it that way. But a slight film of cooking fat on the water is far less offensive IMHO than a turd.
 
No offence taken, but imagine 6 boats at anchor in an "idyllic" ( non tidal) anchorage. Assume they also have H/Ts for black water, but non for grey.That can make over 30 showers, and equivalent in washing up Perhaps a bit more than "slight film of cooking fat" ?
Maybe explains why I don't swim much?.
 
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imagine 6 boats at anchor in an "idyllic"


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IMHO if there's 6 boats it aint idyllic. :-)

Maybe that's why I swim an awful lot! :-)
 
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Non tidal? Idyllic anchorage? Swimming? Never found one.

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I can think of a good few non-tidal idyllic anchorages with great swimming. In fact I can think of some non-tidal anchorages that (IMHO) rank up there with classics of the the West of Scotland.
 
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Non tidal? Idyllic anchorage? Swimming? Never found one.

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In the Med they do exist, having just returned from Med France, we spent several nights at anchor, with many other boats, all I suspect doing washing up, I never saw any 'greasy film on the water', far from it. However without a holding tank on our boat, my own moral obligation dictated that we upped anchor and got off shore before our morning ablutions.
 
got some degree of sympathy with that view. in newton ferrars once on the end of the visitors pontoon, wife and I set off for the pub rowing the avon. as we passed alongside one of those horrible legend things, the occupier used the shower discharge pump which had its outlet just under the gunwhale. straight into the dinghy - so SWMBO promptly stopped rowing and skwarked. so the dinghy went round in a circle and we continued getting wet.

what made it worse is that I would swear the person in the shower had had a pee whilst showering /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
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