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• Question about overboard discharge valve "secured"
  • Seems to me you'll be meeting the spirit of the law
  • My sense if that if you had a wire tie on a diverter valve you'd be okay.
  • I have a nylon tie wrap on the handle and have been checked twice...
  • Heh. This whole business gives pause to wonder, if the key is in my pocket how is it better?
    • Or hanging from a hook in the head
  • I was inspected in Cape Cod Bay last fall.
  • The only NDZ I have been to...
    • My goodness
      • Common ....
      • Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, and Santa Barbara Harbor, for two...
  • If you find out for sure, let me know
  • Y-valves
    • Here's the federal law (33 CFR 159.7)
  • we have been stopped and checked several times in FL