GL: Y valve lockout

[Bill Donovan]

At 01:42 PM 2/17/2008, Steve Burgis wrote:
>Coming up the ICW last summer there were several stops with "broken"
>pumpouts.

Not at all uncommon on the Great Loop.  In spite of a 40 gal holding 
tank for two of us using shoreside facilities and every working 
pumpout as often as possible, we experienced a completely full 
holding tank.  We were on the Ottawa River (no outlet to the 3-mile 
limit, just a NO DISCHARGE area).

Well, it was good enough for Joshua Slocum, so it was good enough for 
us.  The "old oak bucket" (ours was plastic) and a few empty gallon 
oil bottles with funnel saved the day.  When we did find a working 
pumpout, and fittings our metric deck pipe could use, we pumped well 
over 40 gallons.

Necessity is the mother of invention.  Keep all your options open.

Bill