"Chuck Gould" wrote in
ups.com:

meaning that
if you never had it in a bucket, porta-potti, holding tank, etc it
isn't being discharged from your vessel.

Actually the Federal law says it has to be an INSTALLED device, so his
bucket is quite legal to throw it over the side from, balancing out the
effects of indecency and exposure laws quite nicely.

Is a portapotti you just sit on the deck "installed"? Not if it's not
bolted down with some kind of clamping device, is it? What about:
http://www.hi-techredneck.com/Redneck_toilet.jpg
I see it's bolted to the deck, so I'd think it came in as an "installed
device" requiring compliance.
But, then there's:
http://www.hi-techredneck.com/reststop.jpg
Which can easily be picked up and put in ones '76 F150 bed so it would
NOT be an "installed device", would it?
On many vessels, such as:
http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_bass_boat.htm
there's no room, so the bucket must be rinsed out in the lake before
filling it with the catch from the stringer to take home....
Here's a camper in compliance:
http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_camping.htm
Obviously, the bucket to the right of the steps is not an "installed
device" and is in compliance with the law. He simply carries it away
from his camper in the blue 4-wheel-drive delivery vehicle.
Here aboard the high speed picnic boat, M/V "Redneck Express", there is
plenty of room for an "installed device" but the owner has chosen to use
the direct-overboard method, probably while leaning against one of the
stancions in the corner to leeward, of course:
http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_express.htm
Obviously, the design of the uninstalled device must be a consideration:
http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_swan_dive.htm
To save the limited space aboard, this boater has designed his sanitation
equipment to perform "dual functions":
http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_guitar.htm
Here's another example of multipurpose sanitation equipment that stows
easily aboard:
http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_horseshoes.htm

Your yacht isn't the only one with no need of "installed devices":
http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_yacht.htm
Twin engines, huge lazerettes, big flybridge, independently-steerable Z
drives for easy docking in cramped marinas. Other yachtsmen must be just
green with envy....

And, I bet dollar-for-dollar, his family enjoys this yacht much more than
the owner of a 70' Hatteras that doesn't have a fingerprint on the deck.



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