I recently took one of the safe boating courses to get a bit of a discount on my insurance and through that had one of the Coast Guard Auxillary members come do a safety inspection of Sea Puppy today… Sea Puppy passed with flying colors and now bears her 2006 sticker saying she is a safe boat 🙂
The only thing that wasn’t right was the valves on the holding tank and head.. Neither of them are capable of being locked when inshore of the 3 mile limit which is illegal. In consultation with the Coast Guard Auxillary inspector we came up with and I implemented a legal system to lock the thru hull at the head and the Y valve at the holding tank…
At the Y valve we used a zip strip to lock the lever down. It will have to be cut off to be able to let the valve be set back to flush overboard instead of into the tank. The thru hole at the head was harder.. I ended up mounting a pad eye under it beside the head and drilling a hole through the end of the valve handle. With the valve shut the handle comes close enough to the pad eye that another zip strip can be placed through both the handle and the eye thus locking it in the closed position…
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