Capn Mac 82.
Love the last part of your post - So True,So True!
“Now, how they manage to have enough tankage for stowing enough water to allow all the passengers 4 or 5 hollywood showers a day still boggles my understanding of geometry. Most of thise floaty hotels have additional condensers specifically to generate fresh water 24/7.”
recycled grey water… shhhhhh dont say that too loud! lol
- "the sea is selective , slow in recognition of effort and aptitude , but fast in sinking the unfit " - felix riesenberg
Hi;
I could be wrong, But, my vessel was 110’ at the waterline. She didn’t have much bow flare, a low main deck with High bow and High after area with Quarters in that area. At the “Well Deck” there were two cranes to handle Bouys. for replacement and maintenance. The area I call the Well Deck or Main deck was very low to the Waterline. Black hull, White upperworks Buff stack and Red decks. Racing stripe di not have the Emblem in it. They said that was because when she was stricken, she still was being painted.
Now the Range? Well, at ten knots I made it all the way to Hawaii. I had about aquarter ton of fuel left when I arrived! I know, I broke the rule, of a third out, a third in reserve and a third back! I had an escort in place that could have towed me the remainder of the trip. It was Three hundred foot long and was a salvage vessel being transffered to Hilo from San Fransisco by an independent operator so we traveled in company!
I traveled back in the company of a vessel going to the yard in Alemeda because of a hull crack. She was not carrying cargo! Both times we stayed within sight or each other. At least my Auto-Pilot worked well. But I did take friends along who stood watches. We never had an Empty Wheelhouse.
Problem is in defining “grey water.”
I remember reading that the design parameter is 55 gallons of potable per person per day for just wash water. That’s around 400# per passenger per day, around 6 cubic feet.
Grey water would need to be run through pre-treatment before going through the condensors again–probably simpler to just RO the seawater.
The grey water probaly goes over the side. Remember, too, all the black water has to be held in sanitary tankage, which gets pumped out in every port.
“The grey water probaly goes over the side. Remember, too, all the black water has to be held in sanitary tankage, which gets pumped out in every port.”
so we hope. i remember when royal carribean i think, was busted with the “magic pipe” coming from the oily water separater to an overboard discharge. they would run it at night. oh the glory days - i kid of course
US law says you have to be beyond the 3 mile limit to discharge blackwater, except for the States that mandate 9 miles, or those with a 100 fathom limit.
The waters from the Bahamas to the southern end of the Antillies are a vast interlock of treaties and jurisdictions. Add in under-paid, over-worked employees, and Uh-Ohs are near inevitable.
If “icky” to contemplate.