> From: "Rosalie B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maryland provided funding for marinas to put in pumpout facilities. Maryland > law requires that all marinas with 50 or more slips berthing any boats over > 22?, > must have a pumpout. New marinas and expanding marinas with more than 10 slips > must also have pumpouts.
I know a number of marinas that aren't compliant with the requirement you list. Do you have a reference to the relevant law? I'd be very interested. > From: "Norm of Bandersnatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It must be very difficult to pump out a boat in a slip. > > A pump-out boat cannot come alongside. A dock cart with engine driven > pump, tank, and hose long enough to reach the deck fitting from the main > dock might be heavy, maybe requiring self propulsion. Does anyone know a > marina that does that? The City of Annapolis pump-out boat pumps out boats in their slips at marinas throughout City waters. With lots of fenders they wedge between the boat and outboard piling. The pump-out hose is easily long enough to reach the deck fitting on any boat I have seen. I have used the services of the Annapolis pump-out boat in slips at two different marinas, and know (from radio traffic) that the boat services boats in all the major marinas. The cost is $5 for up to 50 gallons (I believe). In my current marina, there is a fixed pump-out near the marina office that is free to slipholders. For $20 the marina will pump-out a boat in a slip using a golf cart mounted system. A couple of years ago I stayed in a marina that had a distributed pump-out system that had a hose fitting about every 40 feet along each pier. The marina would run a flexible hose from the nearest fitting to any boat in its slip for $20 (IIRC); they would pump-out a boat without requiring the owner to be present which was very convenient. sail fast, dave S/V Auspicious _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
