[Public-List] Holding Tank Installation

[George Dinwiddie]

milleype at kingston.net wrote:
> George,
> I note from the plumbing installation for the Raritan Hoding tank that you
> routed the pumpout line to the deck fitting up through the closet where
> the vented loop had been. Is it OK to go without the vented loop. Can you
> leave the vented loop in place and tee into the loop with a y-valve?

I suppose.  The vented loop was gone before I bought the boat.

It seems to me that the vented loop is just to prevent back-siphoning 
from the outlet through-hull.  Since the seacock on that through-hull is 
only open when pumping the tank over board, it hardly seems necessary.

  - George

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