T&T: potti-patrol

[Richard Tomkinson]

I quite agree. That said this summer cruise up coast in Canadian waters, we 
were the only boat we saw using the pumpouts (all of which worked and some 
of which were set up for a very wide range of connection types, and only one 
charged a fee (Chemainus). However, the usual enviro-sensitive no-dump 
locations were cleaner than I have ever seen them.
Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JHWardJr at aol.com>
To: <trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: T&T: potti-patrol


> Good!  It frosts my sanctimonious a-- (oh no, I'm becoming a  geezer!!) to
> have boaters (usually non-natives) complain about water  quality and yet 
> pump
> their raw feces overboard.  I am in a marina of  200+ boats and I bet no 
> more
> than 10 actually use the pumpout station.  Not  everybody has ElectroSans. 
> And
> those that do only use the salt  solution (we are in fresh/brackish water
> here) when bragging, not in  actuality.
>
> No PFDs, proper flares, etc?  Fine - that's your own deal and is a
> self-contained offense (passengers notwithstanding).  But  knowingly 
> pumping poop
> overboard - that's just arrogant, self-centered, and  lazy.  Slap a fine, 
> I say,
> and keep the records in a central database  to radically increase fines to
> really punish multiple offenders.
>
> If more of us would behave, and ostracize those that will not, water 
> quality
> would improve.  We are actively using (floating in place or  underway) the
> waterways every day - if we don't care - no one  will!
>
> My rant du jour. Better now.  Back to work. :-)
>
>
> In a message dated 10/30/2008 12:01:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> trawlers-and-trawlering-request at lists.samurai.com writes:
>
> The  Volusia County Sheriffs were running potti-patrol just north of 
> Daytona
> Beach yesterday, stopping all cruising boats going by and giving  them the
> dye-in-the-head treatment.  The officer was polite and  proper, nothing to
> complain about at  all.
>
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