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Sorry If this double posts. I am trying to figure out how to pump overboard my holding tank and it looks like I need a key to operate the mascerator pump/pumpout. Of course, no key came with boat.
Whaler customer service was no help....
anyone have ideas? Happy to pay the cost of your trouble to make me a copy. Lord knows how long that tank has been 1/2 full! UGHHHH
Petrichor,
If you are a boater and enjoy the beauty of the water, why would you want to pump a holding tank into the water even if it is far enough out to be legal to discharge such waste with all the pollution that our waterways already have to absorb with commercial and agriculture runoff. I am sure your holding tank has a opening for a marine pump out sanitation service. Take the boat to a pump out station and pump out and rinse the tank 6 or seven times filling the tank with clean water in between and you will get better results than polluting our oceans, rivers, lakes, etc. That is the reason macerator pumps have a key lock out and someone was smart enough to take the key out of yours.
jgortva wrote:
Petrichor,
If you are a boater and enjoy the beauty of the water, why would you want to pump a holding tank into the water even if it is far enough out to be legal to discharge such waste with all the pollution that our waterways already have to absorb with commercial and agriculture runoff. I am sure your holding tank has a opening for a marine pump out sanitation service. Take the boat to a pump out station and pump out and rinse the tank 6 or seven times filling the tank with clean water in between and you will get better results than polluting our oceans, rivers, lakes, etc. That is the reason macerator pumps have a key lock out and someone was smart enough to take the key out of yours.
Jim G.
Honestly Jim, I’m not here to debate the environmental impact of human waste while offshore. For the same reason I don’t talk politics. I’d love to get the pump working nonetheless- if anyone has additional ideas (besides their opinion about pumping human waste overboard) I’m all ears.
And for the record, I use a pump out station any chance I get on my 52’ Pearson. There are times, however- I’m REALLY glad I had a macerator and overboard waste discharge.
