Camping on our C-Dory

I boat camp regularly. My wife and I have been living aboard our 25 for two years now. We generally stay on the water for a week or so and then stay at campgrounds for a few days to resupply and decide where to launch next. We generally camp in state parks or national forest campgrounds.
We keep a large plastic container in the truck that we use to catch our grey water while camping. I wrapped some plastic tubing with duct tape to make it fit tight into boat drain hole. Some campgrounds provide a grey water dumping area that we use, but in most we dump it into the steel campfire ring before we leave.

We are planning to cruise Lake Champlain later this summer. How can we do it without discharging any grey water?
 
A quick internet research and an e-mail to friend who lives there, suggests that this no discharge of gray water on Lake Champlain is not enforced, although apparently a few people do have a Y valve,and contain the gray water the way we do when boat camping.

Lake George is apparently a different story. There are instances of folks being stopped and asked to show how the system was disconnected or plugged. The same type of arrangement works there.

For our drain into a 2 1/2 gallon container, we have a short piece of 3/4" (I think) hose which goes right from the sink drain into the container under it.

One of the issues of gray water in national park campgrounds is that of food particles which some claim attract wild life into the camp. I would certainly agree, that on a fire ring, it is unlikely to be an issue, but you never know...
 
Sounds like you are having a great time living/camping aboard.

One thing is that as a person who has gotten a campsite after someone else has dumped greywater into the fire ring... I kind of wish you didn't. Even "just" soap and toothpaste attracts flies and etc. -- and dishwater is worse because of food bits and etc. It's unpleasant.

I like that you collect it in a tub/container - maybe you could dump it at the dump station or perhaps a toilet if there is not a dump station? I have a greywater tank in my small RV and I wouldn't dump it in a fire ring. It's not blackwater, but it has it's own "grossness."

When I boated on a larger boat in no-discharge areas, then they were set up so the greywater was held (holding tank), then pumped out (at a pump station). If I cruised in my C-Dory in a no-discharge area, I think I would either use a dishpan, then carefully decant into a jerry jug (in the cockpit) for later disposal -- or if it were going to be more than a one-time thing, maybe rig up a Y-valve in the sink drain line and have a jug under the sink. Or just do dishes in a dishpan in the cockpit and then into the jug with it.

Lake Champlain... ooh, sounds like a great cruise!
 
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