Wild camping for yachts

Boats still discharge waste via sea toilets into my local river. (My boat has a cassette toilet I might add).

I was once moored up to a chap and we got int a chat about the rights and wrongs. He pointed out a cattle drink just down river with about 20 cows all up to their knees in the water and having a drink.

"You reckon they're not getting rid of their waste?". I could see his point but not enough to make me change to a sea toilet!
 
Robmac said:
Boats still discharge waste via sea toilets into my local river. (My boat has a cassette toilet I might add).

I was once moored up to a chap and we got int a chat about the rights and wrongs. He pointed out a cattle drink just down river with about 20 cows all up to their knees in the water and having a drink.

"You reckon they're not getting rid of their waste?". I could see his point but not enough to make me change to a sea toilet!
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Bearing in mind cows eat grass and the waste generally contains a heap less nasties than your average omnivore/carnivores waste contains....
 
mistericeman said:
Bearing in mind cows eat grass and the waste generally contains a heap less nasties than your average omnivore/carnivores waste contains....
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Very true, but there are also a lot of omnivores/carnivores in the river and many more in the sea.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to add to it, but it's a fact of life. The waterways are full of all sorts of stuff and we probably don't know the half of it.
 
trevskoda said:
Get a fine if caught discharging into the Erne river sys here, boats have to change from sea toilets to cassettes or holding tanks, some folk risk it but fines are high.
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Same on pretty much all of the inland waterways here Trev.

I don't know how our local river has got away with allowing it still.
 
...having said that, I once hired a boat on Loch Lomond. The hire boats had pumpout toilets which is fine.

However, when we picked up our boat, they were still preparing it after the last hire, the holding tank was full so they pumped it out for us - straight into the loch!
 
mistericeman said:
Tell that to the local rivers to me with sanitary products hanging from the Riverside trees after high water flow....

Also a fair few Scottish lochs with suspicious pipes heading out into them from housing on the lochside
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This what I was referring to, you see lots of this in Fife in small villages were there are no sewerage works.
It looks to me that the waste is simply dumped two yards out to sea on a high tide, and an even shorter distance on a low tide.
 
We need to get over the stigma of human waste as a fertilizer, stop filling the soil with chemicals and fill it with good old crap instead!

If water companies can generate some income our from our waste bills might come down........:ROFLMAO:
 
Tookey said:
We need to get over the stigma of human waste as a fertilizer, stop filling the soil with chemicals and fill it with good old crap instead!

If water companies can generate some income our from our waste bills might come down........:ROFLMAO:
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Human waste isn't the problem....

Pathogens and chemicals/drugs are....
It can be a fairly involved/expensive process to render human waste safe for use on growing food.
 
mistericeman said:
Human waste isn't the problem....

Pathogens and chemicals/drugs are....
It can be a fairly involved/expensive process to render human waste safe for use on growing food.
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The late Belimey chap showed how its done with very high heat before putting in fields.
 
Fisherman said:
This what I was referring to, you see lots of this in Fife in small villages were there are no sewerage works.
It looks to me that the waste is simply dumped two yards out to sea on a high tide, and an even shorter distance on a low tide.
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About 20 years back it became law that all waste had to be sorted or into a bio plant, all were converted here, belfast lough is a good bit cleaner for it
 
Herman said:
I was sat at garage today watching the news whilst waiting for the car to be MOTed, and I don't know if anyone else seen this but I thought, why can they not have the same attitude towards Motorhomes.

The news was about the delicate sea grass or meadow being damaged by boats dropping anchor in a lovely bay. Now straight away I thought you can stop in a campsite and pay ie. a marina or a harbour or you can wild camp and drop anchor in a bay. So with all this wide mooring going on the sea meadow is being damaged and the little sea horses habitat is being destroyed, but instead of floating a few signs out saying no overnighting they have supplied a load of expensive bouy's that are fastened to spikes in the seabed by rubber bands so the bouy rise and fall with the tide and the boats moor to them instead of dropping anchor.

So they are encouraging wilding in a delicate ecosystem instead of discouraging, which is great, now why can't the splash some cash and provide the equivalent for us, and a couple of tons of gravel to park on is probably cheaper.

Where it all began | News | Boatmoorings.com

www.boatmoorings.com
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I don’t fancy elastic bands as a hand brake though.
 
trevskoda said:
When i was you and taken to Portrush to swim you could see the brown torpedoes floating in the water from discharge pipes, put me clean of going near water.
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Same in our village all sewerage via buckets went directly into the sea or the 2 rivers leading to the beach several houses which backed onto the rivers did it direct. No one ever swam in the sea
 
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