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This is the vessel I spent 8 years growing up on, and eventually owning. Growing up on boats, you learn quickly you talk about and deal with two things primarily : refrigeration, and excrement. We ALL produce excrement, and it must be dealt with in a legal manner. I've dealt with my share of it, and worked on mine as well as other people's waste systems. I've pumped it, put it in holding tanks, treated it with both an ElectraScan and a Purasan. You can Google them both. One uses electricity and salt electrolysis to cook it, and one uses chlorine. I've burned it in an Incinolet, and even composted it with a compositing toilet.Excrement is excrement. When you install a system that is certified safe to use and legal according to the USCG and the EPA, then have a marina tell you that you can't use it and must put it in your 6 gallon holding tank, life gets tough. You've got to move to a special dock usually to have it pumped out at your cost. Then, they say well, our pump out is broken you have to go somewhere else, it gets frustrating !!!! You watch how fast excrement builds up. At some point, you have to say NO MORE. Isn't that where we are now ? Haven't we had enough excrement ? Growing up, I always had a problem being told something can't be done or just I can't do it. I took it as challenge..... Yet, we now have people in Washington Dang Cesspool telling us to shut up-what we say is irrelevant. We can't do it, it's impossible to change !!!Why aren't more people of my generation standing up and realizing that the repair guy ain't going to come fix it ? It's up to us to fix the pump out or our holding tanks will burst and the excrement will flood our homes. From the galley to the V-berth. Sorry, for the landlubbers, kitchen to bedroom ! Nobody said life was always easy, but when you don't have excrement on the brain it gets a lot more pleasant, just saying.