dhmeissner
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Straight flush always beats a full house.
good one
Straight flush always beats a full house.
Greetings,
Never discharged overboard since we've been boating (about 40 years). Always pump out.
Here in Queensland the rules are complicated. Part of them is covered in the attached doc.
Marina's are required to provide sewage facilities, but having onshore facilities meets that requirement. They usually require key access so are not always accessible. There are only 33 marinas listed with pumpouts in the State. I would think this is a lot less than half the number of marinas. I have never used a pumpout since bringing my boat back home to Queensland.
I have an ElectroScan and use it as much as possible. However, I believe it would only be regarded as Class B provided it was regularly tested by an independent certifier. There is not much to be gained from that certification for my area of operation, so from a legal perspective its output is considered untreated sewage. Thus even using it I have to follow the limits for untreated sewage. The distance limit gained would vary up to a max of 1nm.
Fortunately there are places I can legally discharge untreated sewage en route to my favourite anchorages. Annoyingly, one of those anchorages permits untreated discharge. I never discharge there and I hope that other boaters do likewise!
The electroscan type MSDs are basically just forming a sort of chlorine out of saltwater.....and they are certified because of the size of solids dumped and bacteria count.In general it better to chemically treat sewage before dumping ?
As far as I know, you cannot dump overboard in inland waters or indicated harbours, bays or other sites on saltwater. Otherwise, dumping in tidal waters is permitted.
I dump all sewage right into the bay, but first goes through the Lectrasan, so it is sterilized..
One dump nutrient equivalence is 4 oak leaves.
No holding tank, no associated odors, for me ideal.
http://www.raritaneng.com/pdf_files/lectrasan/L270v0404.pdf
Mine was installed in 1978, has the manual rotary timer and still works.
I replaced the fuses inside the timer control with self resetting breakers.
Have had to replace the titanium electrolyzer plate thing one time. That specific electrode draws 18 amps when working properly, minus the two mixing motors.
one flaw is the old meter magnet displaying the amps used looses strength with age, which I talked to Vic at Raritan about before he retired. You can pull off the meter cover and twist the needle adjustment higher. Someday I may look into fixing the amp meter. I put an amp meter inline with the titanium electrode to monitor the amps used.
I remember using one some time ago and the smell would make me give up boating
Straight flush always beats a full house.
I think it's the same 60% who said they would NEVER vote for Trump.
Well Deckhand you are in Sitka and I in Ketchikan. Join in reviewing the following from the 'Poll' data.
I never dump any sewage illegally, regardless of the inconvenience. 34 69.39%
How many visiting yachts have you witnessed pulling up to what ever and where ever, your Sitka pump out station is located? Damn few would be my guess. That is the case her in Ketchikan. Hell were one to pull up and ask for the service the harbor department would have to first fine the instructions!!.
I the 15 years that I have traveled to Wrangell to play golf, staying at the dock within 150 feet at the most distance mooring and within 50 feet the closest averaging 7 such voyages to the town, I have see only ONE visiting Krogen pull up and pump out, ONE.
Had the ‘Poll’ not included ‘NEVER’ in the question, guilt could be masked with the above answer. As the responses are anonymous, who's to know?
So then how can 70% of any audience, a percentage of boats visiting Alaska having by just the shear percentage, state thus? They can’t, there are not enough pump out stations tween Seattle/Ketchikan/Sitka to have complied with this poll’s statics.
Now I don't have any issue or complaint with pumping overboard macerated waste. It is pure and provides feed for all sorts of marine life. It is the unabashed fibbing that is the bother. Call this a un-provable charge on my part, that or none of the 70% have ever come to Alaska. Of those that claim to, none have crossed my travels or been witnessed using the pump out facilities.
Al-Ketchikan
Straight flush always beats a full house.
Sure glad I opened this thread just so I didn't miss that.
You should get a prize for same.
............ On occasion, when in the boonies, I have peed off the swim platform. Just cause I could. I know it's a criminal act. ................
I think it's the same 60% who said they would NEVER vote for Trump.
Straight overboard is the normal in the eastern Caribbean. We are one of the minority of boats that has a holding tank.
I haven't seen a pump out facility down here in the years I have been here. Must be one somewhere.