how do you pump out the holding tank?
 

ray lunder wrote:
Ahoy, I'm trying to figure out how to install this plastic holding
tank. So let's be optimistic and say the tank is half full and you
want to pump it all out and you're 3 miles out, etc. You open both sea
cocks, divert the Y valve to the holding tank and start pumping. But
doesn't this just fill the holding tank with sal****er as it flushes
out the waste? I want the tank to be clean and empty, right? Sorry if
this is dumb, I've never had a tank before. It's 6 gallons with two 1
1/2" stubs, one of which goes down to the bottom of the tank, and one
3/4" vent. Where does the vent get installed? All the stubs are on top
of the tank. Thank you.

What is the point of having a holding tank and pumping all of your waste
matter into the sea? Is it me? Am I nuts? Or is the idea not to have the
waste properly disposed of ashore? I thought the UK idea of direct waste
discharge into the sea was bad enough, but now I'm beginning to wonder! 3
miles out? Jeez!

how do you pump out the holding tank?
 

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in
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What is the point of having a holding tank and pumping all of your waste
matter into the sea? Is it me? Am I nuts? Or is the idea not to have the
waste properly disposed of ashore? I thought the UK idea of direct waste
discharge into the sea was bad enough, but now I'm beginning to wonder! 3
miles out? Jeez!



See those big ships? They don't have a holding tank...(c;

Little boaters produce .000000001% of the **** a whale produces.

Humans are so queer. IT"S RECYCLED if you don't fill it with nasty
chemicals! It has been for millions of years!

how do you pump out the holding tank?
 

Larry wrote:
"Dennis Pogson" wrote in
:

What is the point of having a holding tank and pumping all of your
waste matter into the sea? Is it me? Am I nuts? Or is the idea not
to have the waste properly disposed of ashore? I thought the UK idea
of direct waste discharge into the sea was bad enough, but now I'm
beginning to wonder! 3 miles out? Jeez!



See those big ships? They don't have a holding tank...(c;

Little boaters produce .000000001% of the **** a whale produces.

Humans are so queer. IT"S RECYCLED if you don't fill it with nasty
chemicals! It has been for millions of years!

If the Japanese get their way, there won't be any whales!

Probably much more significant is the thought of 1500 million Chinese with
their junks, all equipped with thunderboxes at the stern.

Why are we in the Western world so obsessed with such matters I wonder?

Your small boat legislation must have created a tidy living for some folks!
There will be a few entrepreneurs on our tiny crowded island here in UK who
can't wait for us to catch up!


Dennis.

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"green" people are funny.......you should have seen all the
%$#@ that came off of our aircraft carrier....as it steamed
around the world...(us navy - cva-61)...



"See those big ships? They don't have a holding tank...(c;
Little boaters produce .000000001% of the **** a whale produces.

Humans are so queer. IT"S RECYCLED if you don't fill it with nasty
chemicals! It has been for millions of years!"

how do you pump out the holding tank?
 

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in news:cD8qg.5210
:

Why are we in the Western world so obsessed with such matters I wonder?



Same as always.....You get a big lobbiest to bribe them into writing and
passing legislation making it illegal to **** over the side within 100
miles of land. You, of course, being the manufacturer of amazingly
expensive solutions to this problem. A regulation is written and enforced
with guns and threats of prison for anyone who dares **** over the side,
not buying your industries' solutions to the non-existant problem.

You sit back and collect a fortune from the inmates to this asylum, forced
to buy from you items they don't really need.

Just follow the money trail......

I was adding 800 gallons of diesel to a Hatteras 56 MY at a local fuel
dock. A tiny spray of diesel from the huge tankage came out the vent as
she approached full. The woman watching from the sailboat 2 docks over
came unglued! I destroyed the planet! 3 of those wigglers that plug up
the air conditioner strainers died!

She needs to take a trip on a freighter from down in the engine room....(c;

I still **** over the side.....bite me!
It's a man thing....(c;
Why? BECAUSE WE CAN!

how do you pump out the holding tank?
 

Aircraft carriers treat the waste with enzymes before ejecting it, in
the same manner that your backyard septic system does before it goes
to the leaching field and then into the groundwater.

Nevertheless, too much "material" cannot be recycled. Which is why
most harbors have fecal bacteria counts way above safe levels. That
mixed with engine oil and fuel make for a toxic swill that never gets
"recycled".

To say that it "just gets recycled" is as stupid as saying that
there's no such thing as polluted water.

If you were to dump your waste three miles from shore in many areas of
the world, you would end up paying a hefty fine. In pristine areas
like Bonaire, you would do third-world jail time -- not a laughing
matter.

As far as the Chinese, hygene seems to be of no interest to them. I've
made nunmerous trips to Hong Kong, and was amazed at how filthy the
city and water are.



On 3 Jul 2006 08:54:58 -0700, "~^ beancounter ~^"
wrote:

"green" people are funny.......you should have seen all the
%$#@ that came off of our aircraft carrier....as it steamed
around the world...(us navy - cva-61)...



"See those big ships? They don't have a holding tank...(c;
Little boaters produce .000000001% of the **** a whale produces.

Humans are so queer. IT"S RECYCLED if you don't fill it with nasty
chemicals! It has been for millions of years!"

how do you pump out the holding tank?
 

Cindy wrote in
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To say that it "just gets recycled" is as stupid as saying that
there's no such thing as polluted water.



What was the **** doing in the millions of years before the chemical
industry made it so toxic the bacteria couldn't eat it? None of the OTHER
animals ever had a septic system that **** in the ocean!

It's hard to imagine, sitting on top of a pristine coral reef off some
tropical island where the water is SO clean the boat looks like it's
embedded in a 50' thick piece of glass all the way down to the bottom, that
there's not a single chemical treatment plant processing all the **** from
all those billions of animals I can see under the boat, from the dolphin
trying to get me to throw him another cookie, to the trillions of coral
animals expelling their waste into the water out those tiny holes.....

Nope....doesn't wash. The water is FULL of it and it looks just beautiful
after NATURE, not man's stupid technologies he looks to for all the
answers, recycles it back into more animals/plants...and water.

JUST DON'T FOLLOW THE WHALES!....PU!

how do you pump out the holding tank?
 

My holding tank is plumbed to the thru hull with only a ball valve.
The toilet line is teed at that point with a leg to the tank. When I
want to purge, I close off the air vent lines using installed ball
valves, open the through hull and activate a tire pump plumbed to one
of the vent lines, which evacuates the tank in about a minute or two.

No expensive submerged parts. All other aspect of the system are
typical.

Using the air purge allows me to inspect the function of the joker
valve. If ever it leaks back while purging, I will know it needs
service. Total air pressure used in this sytem is about 1 or 2 pounds.
If the pipes can't take that, they would need servicing soon.

Terry K

how do you pump out the holding tank?
 

Larry wrote:
What was the **** doing in the millions of years before the chemical
industry made it so toxic the bacteria couldn't eat it? None of the OTHER
animals ever had a septic system that **** in the ocean!

Remind me not to have dinner at your place. With those comments I
suspect ya just **** in your kitchen sink and wipe your ass with an old
sock that ya toss on the floor.

If the it dont matter where ya **** I dare you go swimming in the
mississippi river around NO, LA a few hours a day. Let me know what
kind of stuff ya get growing on your skin.

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Charlie Morgan wrote:


I bet that if a neighbor's dog ****s on your lawn, you go berserk.

CWM

He'd better have his 'pooper scooper' ready!