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A dab of bleach or ammonia (Never both, makes chloramine) kills most aquatic
species as does copper sulfate. I used distilled water for emergency
ballast. As long as the seals are not broken, it is good for a long time
and drinkable in emergencies.
Richard
P15 Sirocco
Mac 22 wet dream
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> From: JBlumhorst@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 10:01 AM
> To: wwpotter@tscnet.com
> Subject: Ecologically concious trailer sailors [WAS: Ballast]
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> Hi webgang,
>
> Water is a reasonable material for ballast, with many advantages.
> There's
> one drawback to using water -- the issue of introducing new species to
> bodies
> of water and upsetting the previous ecological balance.
>
> If you fill your water ballast containers with water from one body, and
> empty
> them later in another body, you might unwittingly have carried small
> critters
> and other bio-contaminants. Even if you discharge your water in the
> lake/bay
> from which you originally filled them, the residual water remaining in the
>
> container may harbor hitch-hikers. The only safe way to do it, I
> suppose,
> is to use treated tap water for ballast.
>
> This is an issue with large container ships that use water ballast (zebra
> mussels in the Great Lakes, and Oriental-something crabs in the San
> Francisco
> Bay) as well as the newer water ballasted trailer boats like the MacGregor
>
> 26x's. In years to come, we're going to hear more horror stories about
> destroyed ecosystems,and the culprit is going to be water ballasted boats.
>
>
> At Clear Lake in the Sierra mountains of California, they're trying to
> fight
> an invasion of hydra-something-or-other, a microscopic organism that is
> carried on trailer boats and that has already invaded the ecosystem of the
>
> lake. Signs remind boat owners to dump their ballast, wash their tanks,
> and
> even wash boat exteriors and trailors on dry land away from the water's
> edge
> before launching and after retreival.
>
> I know there are a few eco-professionals on the Potter list. Perhaps you
> can
> tell us more about how we can help control this threat to our beautiful
> lakes
> and bays.
>
> Best,
> Judy B
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/16/99 12:39:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> hapilife@efn.org writes:
>
> > I called around today looking for various types of ballast material.
> lead
> > costs a lot. iron will rust. WATER IS CHEAP! i scavenged 6 empty gallon
> > milk jugs and filled them with lake water at dockside and threw them up
> in
> > the bow and lashed them to the anchor ring in the anchor compartment in
> my
> > 15 with some nylon string to keep them in the bow and IT WORKED
> GREAT!!!!
> > at 8.8 lbs per gallon i added 50 pounds of ballast up front down
> low.FREE.
> > when we decided to nap for a while we just moved them to the cockpit no
> > big deal. afterwards we left them in the boat but you could just empty
> the
> > water out. Sure, keep the boat light for trailering, use water it
> doesn't
> > scratch up the boat like bricks would. the only downside would be if
> you
> > punctured the jugs somehow then the bilge would get some water in it.
>
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