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hipcatticus · 08-09-2016, 11:47

Jackheape... Composting toilet? I've vaguely heard of them but not sure how one would work on a boat. Especially an itty-bitty one with three people.

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leftbrainstuff · 08-09-2016, 11:48

Active captain or on your electronic charts.

The actual number of accessible and working pumpout stations is likely to be less.

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Horus · 08-09-2016, 12:41

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Originally Posted by Dockhead

Indeed, but I've never seen a pumpout station being used in the Netherlands. Does anyone in fact use them?

Sssssst!

lordgeoff · 08-09-2016, 13:05

Pump out in the Med? Forget it.

Panacea2183 · 08-09-2016, 15:36

Use Active Captian
You can always call ahead to make sure there equipment is working and check current price. But it will give you info on marinas and services.

FSMike · 08-09-2016, 17:29

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Originally Posted by hipcatticus

Jackheape... Composting toilet? I've vaguely heard of them but not sure how one would work on a boat. Especially an itty-bitty one with three people.

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They work very well on a boat, we've got one on our cat.
Usually the only thing that might prevent installation is the footprint needed to install.
Google marine composting heads.

svgypsyqueen · 08-09-2016, 22:19

https://activecaptain.com

Active captain

This is where it's at for current up to date information. Or at least you can see when the last time the info was updated and there's comments from other boaters right in it so you will know if it's good service or has become one of those abandoned features of the marina. And you have the ability to add your own review of facilities based on your experience.
Good luck!

**Dockhead** · 09-09-2016, 04:29

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Originally Posted by Horus

Sssssst!

LOL. I thought so.

I've only ever seen pumpout stations used much in the U.S. (where you have the dreaded Potty Police dumping dye in your toilets while holding you at gunpoint), Sweden, and Finland. Everywhere else it seems people just discharge directly overboard, although considerate people might use their black water tanks in harbors or near places where people may be swimming.

In the UK, you are officially allowed to discharge directly overboard except in harbors and near beaches.

In the Netherlands, I would think that it would be sensible to use the tanks and pump out in the Ijsselmeer, which is a closed and shallow body of water -- very different from discharging into the North Sea with strong tidal flushing -- but I don't think anyone does.

rwidman · 09-09-2016, 16:30

Unless I'm missing something, Active Captain doesn't have a list of pumpouts. Yes, you can look up every marina in a location and see if they have a pumpout, but that's a bit inconvenient to say the least.

CaptTom · 10-09-2016, 06:45

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Originally Posted by rwidman

Unless I'm missing something, Active Captain doesn't have a list of pumpouts. Yes, you can look up every marina in a location and see if they have a pumpout, but that's a bit inconvenient to say the least.

Thank you. I've been told that I'm one of the few AC users who actually would like to be able to filter on individual fields like that. And that nobody else ever complains about what a pain it is to have to click on each marina in an area, then hunt around for that one piece of data I care about.

Now there are two of us. Maybe if more spoke up...

**newhaul** · 10-09-2016, 06:58

OK here is what I found with a quick Google for marine pump out locations
RV dump locations for United States of America

ranger58sb · 10-09-2016, 08:30

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Originally Posted by CaptTom

Thank you. I've been told that I'm one of the few AC users who actually would like to be able to filter on individual fields like that. And that nobody else ever complains about what a pain it is to have to click on each marina in an area, then hunt around for that one piece of data I care about.

Now there are two of us. Maybe if more spoke up...

I'm another.

I've emailed with Jeff about filtering -- I'd like to be able to filter on marinas with swimming pools, for instance -- but he prefers to let the follow-on integrators do the filtering. Like any app or machine or software that incorporates AC data. (Think I've accurately said what he means.)

Which solves exactly nothing, because the follow-on integrators won't even think of it.

Unless somebody reading threads like this takes it to heart, and really makes an app. DumpKing? Whatever...

It occurs to me my answer to the swimming pool thing was to revert to the MarineLife database. And they may have pump-outs in there, too...

-Chris

CaptTom · 10-09-2016, 11:31

I've noticed that nobody is doing web page development any more. The glory and the money are in apps nowadays. Even apps that do nothing but display data from an existing web page.

I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, that something similar is going on with AC. There's been no significant development I can see on the web site. I read lots of e-mails and forum postings about all the great new hardware that incorporates AC data.

None of that helps me. My 3-year-old chartplotter is listed as a "legacy" device by Garmin and isn't getting any updates, so even though the SD card contains AC data, put there by the Garmin HomePort app, I can't see it on my chartplotter. I'm not spending $1K to upgrade to a new model just to display that data.

Another suspicion is that the hardware manufacturers are "checking the box" by showing AC data on the screen. And then moving on to the next new thing. I strongly doubt they'll be motivated to make that data easy to access, easy to update, and certainly not easy to filter. Especially if that function isn't even important enough to implement on the AC web site!

thinwater · 10-09-2016, 11:55

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Originally Posted by hipcatticus

How do you find pump out stations without calling several marinas at random? Is there an app? I'm a recent live aboard sailor, doing this on a shoestring budget. We anchor out, marinas are too expensive for us, and not all marinas have on site stations. We could practice Google ** and call all over, but that takes up a lot of data and that's limited, too. Suggestions?

Also, I totally understand that outside the three mile limit, we can dump in the sea, and that will be an option as well, as soon as we figure out how. As I said, recent liveaboards. Very recent. As of today, we can celebrate our first week.

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