JustJason
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Nothing is funnier 
I'm helping my neighbor winterize his new to him 28ft Sundancer. He didn't want to pay me my rate to do it (we did settle on an amount) and on top of that he wanted to help so I made sure I worked extra slowly.
I have 1 rule when I winterize boats. I don't do poop tanks. So make sure you have it pumped out at the closest marina before I work on it.
Of course..... my neigbor did not. So he asks me how to drain it and being the plumber that i'm not, I had to think about it and look at it for a few minutes. It was a port a toilet that had an optional macerator pump hooked up to it and it worked by drawing seawater in, mixing it, and pumping it overboard. The toilet itself was on quick release hinges had a cover in the back that you could unscrew to drain the seawater out of it.
So the neighbor decides that because its a 3 gallon toilet and he has a 10 gallon shop vac that he's going to suck it all out.
I'm sure by now you can see where this is heading
I said "Jim...............(long dramatic pause)......... YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT"
Well there was no talking Jim out of it. He jumped in the boat with his shop vac, turned it on, 10 seconds went by and I heard a 1 god awefull wrech sound over the noise of the vacuum and I was 10 feet away from the boat.
The vac ran for just a few more seconds before he shut it off, and then I heard it again, sounded like he was dying inside. I said "oh ship", and went in to check on him.
Apparently he had a salad for lunch because it was all over the galley. On the ceiling, on the walls, on the floor, and poor Jim even had lettuce on his shirt and pants. He should have stayed in the bathroom, it would have been easier to clean. But he turned his head and puked instead.
Moral of the story.... Shop vac's exhaust air, quite a bit of it too. If you suck clean air in, you get clean air out. If you suck holding tank air/waste in.... well it smells the same as if you poured rotten sewage through your houses central air.
I'm helping my neighbor winterize his new to him 28ft Sundancer. He didn't want to pay me my rate to do it (we did settle on an amount) and on top of that he wanted to help so I made sure I worked extra slowly.
I have 1 rule when I winterize boats. I don't do poop tanks. So make sure you have it pumped out at the closest marina before I work on it.
Of course..... my neigbor did not. So he asks me how to drain it and being the plumber that i'm not, I had to think about it and look at it for a few minutes. It was a port a toilet that had an optional macerator pump hooked up to it and it worked by drawing seawater in, mixing it, and pumping it overboard. The toilet itself was on quick release hinges had a cover in the back that you could unscrew to drain the seawater out of it.
So the neighbor decides that because its a 3 gallon toilet and he has a 10 gallon shop vac that he's going to suck it all out.
I'm sure by now you can see where this is heading
I said "Jim...............(long dramatic pause)......... YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT"
Well there was no talking Jim out of it. He jumped in the boat with his shop vac, turned it on, 10 seconds went by and I heard a 1 god awefull wrech sound over the noise of the vacuum and I was 10 feet away from the boat.
The vac ran for just a few more seconds before he shut it off, and then I heard it again, sounded like he was dying inside. I said "oh ship", and went in to check on him.
Apparently he had a salad for lunch because it was all over the galley. On the ceiling, on the walls, on the floor, and poor Jim even had lettuce on his shirt and pants. He should have stayed in the bathroom, it would have been easier to clean. But he turned his head and puked instead.
Moral of the story.... Shop vac's exhaust air, quite a bit of it too. If you suck clean air in, you get clean air out. If you suck holding tank air/waste in.... well it smells the same as if you poured rotten sewage through your houses central air.
