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Champipple
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Initially Posted - 06/13/2007 : 07:06:39

Has anyone done anything differently with the MARPOL and Discharge placard requirments so that they don't look "Cheap" I can't be the first guy to think of this, but can't find anything other than the crappy plastic.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 06/13/2007 : 07:47:27

Didn't find anything better, but put them on the underside of hatches, inside doors etc....

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/13/2007 : 07:59:32

I thought about that, but the words Conspicuous seem to recur throughout the USCG rules.

I just did a word count on both and am looking into getting some nice teak plaques engraved so that they look like belong. They are just short of 1300 characters combined.

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Stu Jackson C34
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Response Posted - 06/16/2007 : 01:22:22

I typed them out and stuck them underneath the opening of our nav station. Anyone wants to look when they board, I just leave the nav station open on it's spring hinge. Conspicuous - humbug! The plastic looks so cheesy the Admiral dissed it first thing.

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mhartong
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Response Posted - 06/16/2007 : 16:43:45

Ditto on the inside of lockerss and doors. The oil placard is attached to the backside of a diesel access plate on the engine compartment. Open the access, and the first thing you see is the placard. The waste placard is on the inside of the door under the galley. Same thing, go to put garbage in the wate backet and its the first thing you see.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/17/2007 : 17:57:26

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by mhartong
 Ditto on the inside of lockerss and doors. The oil placard is attached to the backside of a diesel access plate on the engine compartment. Open the access, and the first thing you see is the placard. The waste placard is on the inside of the door under the galley. Same thing, go to put garbage in the wate backet and its the first thing you see.
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Except you aren't required by law to carry them at 25 feet. So when they board your boat they can say "Interesting Idea; good thing you aren't under any requirement" then check the N/A box.

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Stu Jackson C34
 Conspicuous - humbug! The plastic looks so cheesy the Admiral dissed it first thing.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

exactly why I am getting a nice engraved version, silver on black metal. I'll put both on the engine compartment. If they look good I'll start selling them. I'm lucky enough not to require a posted written waste removal plan, but my MARPOL placard must have the Great Lakes statement on it. Which is usually sold out so you have to actually buy a third placard. My engraving guy is whipping up the quote now so I can do it with one, right under the stairs on the engine compartment.
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mhartong
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Response Posted - 06/17/2007 : 18:44:40

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Champipple

Except you aren't required by law to carry them at 25 feet. So when they board your boat they can say "Interesting Idea; good thing you aren't under any requirement" then check the N/A box.

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Your right, not required... but then by law I'm not required to carry a copy of the COLREGS either... but I do anyway....

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 06/18/2007 : 18:21:19

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> I'm lucky enough not to require a posted written waste removal plan<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I am, and no one has ever asked for it. WM sells pre-printed laminated cards with various scenarios on it, check on with a grease pencil and voila. It's in the galley, right behind the peanut butter.

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Response Posted - 06/19/2007 : 07:57:05

Mine was $.01 from WM--a stick-on vinyl sheet that'll go someplace "conspicuous"... I'm still searching for that place.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/19/2007 : 13:40:21

I saw the stickers. I figure the law's the law. I'll just fancy it up. By the sounds of things if I can build the better mousetrap....

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 06/20/2007 : 22:27:54

While you're at it you might as well re-do those tacky stickers on the visor of your car....

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/20/2007 : 23:13:38

Got a tough problem? Come to the alumni!

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/21/2007 : 07:15:34

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Oscar
 While you're at it you might as well re-do those tacky stickers on the visor of your car....

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I hear ya!

A while back we got a great deal on a new LandRover Freelander and the price made the payment the same as my wife's VW Bug so we took it (gas mileage not withstanding). After getting that kind of service I understand why people pay more, but a nice luxury vehicle like that with a beautiful leather interior all the extras and That tacky Visor Sticker, granted it was clothesesque sewn into the visor but it still had the ugly yellow and red WARNING. The deal was so good that this past month we were able to trade it in on a year old Jag - same payment and terms, same nice leather, same nice bells and whistles plus some, same stupid visor warning.

For me however, since I always have 2 or three pair of sailing sunglasses laying around and I <s>hate</s> abhor using the visor - I think does more harm than good with the field of vision. Ergo, I never see the cheesy sticker anyway.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/21/2007 : 08:52:47

A friend of mine once sold Land Rovers and Jaguars in a local dealership... He said the joke among the salesmen was, the only thing worse than being stuck in the desert in a broken-down Land Rover was having another one come out to rescue you! (Every morning several flat-beds would arrive at the dealershiop...)

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/21/2007 : 13:52:03

LOL They've gone downhill since they became an American company, that is for sure. On the flip side, the repair frequency and cost of Jaguar has turned around.

The nice thing about it is my wife drives a gazillion miles for work - so when she does, she gets the Honda.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/21/2007 : 17:31:12

Rover probably went down-hill when they started making everything upscale... Jaguar started up-hill when Ford sh!tcanned the electronics by Lucas, the Prince of Darkness. Hondas and Toyotas just work and work. (I have a Honda 225 outboard and a Toyota Highlander.)

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 06/27/2007 : 23:39:07

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