RI Wants "locked" Through hulls?

[TrueBlue]

Originally Posted by billyruffn

Actually RI law is a bit stiffer in that most of the state is a "no discharge" zone. Fed law allows discharge of treated sewage (e.g. Lectrasan).

When I'm in RI I just lock the head door, and piss in a bucket.

All of RI is a no-discharge zone - out to the 3 mile limit, and there's a lot of coastline. RI may be the smallest state, but has one of the greatest ratios of coastline/per sq mile in the country. Perhaps why it's called "The Ocean State" .

Interesting that pissing directly overboard is considered legal - most fisherman do it. Using a bucket and dumping overboard is considered "discharge" because equipment is used in the transfer of waste. However, the water cops will get you on indecent exposure otherwise.

[Pamlicotraveler]

Originally Posted by billyruffn

Actually RI law is a bit stiffer in that most of the state is a "no discharge" zone. Fed law allows discharge of treated sewage (e.g. Lectrasan).

When I'm in RI I just lock the head door, and piss in a bucket.

Actually lots of areas are now NDZ. Alot of North Carolina is. One thing is that some fish in NC waters died from phisteria(sp?) a few years ago and it was blamed on boaters discharge. In the end I think they determined it was caused by hog lagoons which are all over the state. I'm sure the hog farm lobby is a lot bigger than the cruisers lobby.

I wish a LectraSan was not prohibited anywhere because the fecal coliform count of the "crap" from the LectraSan EC is 0-20/100 ml. I'm not an expert in crap, and have no interest in becoming one, but apparently a lot of areas don't get to this level with their city treatment plants.

The only logic I can see to prohibiting type I sanitation devices is that if someone has a Lectra San, like we do, and doesn't use it -you have to push a button after every flush for a 2 minute treatment cycle - or if it wasn't working, it would become untreated discharge.

[billyruffn]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

Interesting that pissing directly overboard is considered legal - most fisherman do it. Using a bucket and dumping overboard is considered "discharge" because equipment is used in the transfer of waste. However, the water cops will get you on indecent exposure otherwise.

It this was not a family-friendly site, I could describe several incidents observed in the Caribbean where they weren't just pissing overboard. It's usually French boats and quite often in well-populated anchorages -- I guess they think the sugar scoop stern was designed for somthing other than swimming.

[therapy23]

Originally Posted by billyruffn

It this was not a family-friendly site, I could describe several incidents observed in the Caribbean where they weren't just pissing overboard. It's usually French boats and quite often in well-populated anchorages -- I guess they think the sugar scoop stern was designed for somthing other than swimming.

That is really EEEEWWWWWW!!!

[Pamlicotraveler]

Originally Posted by billyruffn

I guess they think the sugar scoop stern was designed for somthing other than swimming.

That's bad...I have to say, swimming with jellyfish is a pleasure compared to that.

But then again, if we Americans had built the palace at Versailles it would have had bathrooms!

[donradclife]

Down Under they call it a 'Blind Mullet"