Does anyone know?

[Hudds Lad]

Can anyone tell me exactly what the squiggles on the pumpout symbol are supposed to represent?

Is the bottom bit a U bend? If so, what’s the top bit supposed to be?

 

 

[howardang]

A pump handle

 

Howard

[Alan de Enfield]

The slightly sloping horizontal bar is the boat gunwale.

The S-bend is the pipe going into the tank

The pipe 'above' the gunwale is the pump out hose

The curving downwards is the boat gunnerl down into the hull side

 

[magnetman]

It looks like L S turned 90 degree and mirrored.

 

Is this a Lee Sanitation branding thing or has it always been the logo for pumpouts?

 

Rotated 90 degrees and mirrored:

 

[rusty69]

It clearly stands for stool. 

 

Here's a sample 

[magnetman]

Or first and last letters ?

[rusty69]

7 minutes ago, magnetman said:

Or first and last letters ?

Sit? 

[magnetman]

I was thinking of sinternet. 

[rusty69]

Looks like part of the Monaco grand prix circuit to me. 

[magnetman]

We had a connect board game with things like that on it. Red blue and black though. 

[rusty69]

It could be shorthand for "shit sucker" 

 

Or shit stick. 

 

S And a stick 

Edited February 12, 2023 by rusty69

[magnetman]

I have a dedicated one of these on my mooring. It is the shitsnake. 

My pet name for it. 

[rusty69]

Sidewinder or king brown? 

[sigsegv]

It's a snake charmer!

[John Brightley]

12 hours ago, magnetman said:

Is this a Lee Sanitation branding thing or has it always been the logo for pumpouts?

It's been the logo for pumpouts since at least 1975. Created by BWB I understand -nothing to do with Lee Sanitation.

[Hudds Lad]

So i’m starting to get the sense that nobody actually knows what it is  

 

I’m going to go with an abstract impression of a stick man popping a squat whilst at the tiller  

[Tony Brooks]

39 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

So i’m starting to get the sense that nobody actually knows what it is  

 

I’m going to go with an abstract impression of a stick man popping a squat whilst at the tiller  

 

You have been told, it is a pump out connection going through a gunnel. However, I suspect the graphic designer who designed it had no idea about boat systems, so followed house practice and put a U trap in it.

[Hudds Lad]

12 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

 

You have been told, it is a pump out connection going through a gunnel. However, I suspect the graphic designer who designed it had no idea about boat systems, so followed house practice and put a U trap in it.

Speaking as a fully trained and qualified graphic designer myself, i can kind of see that might be a gunnel but certain aspects throw it off. Why the slope? Why the one rounded end?

The u-bend works as it makes you think “waste”, the rounded top and flat bottom imply direction, although i’d probably have gone with an arrowhead myself.

It may even have worked better without the “gunnel” part?

[TheBiscuits]

It's obviously a self-pumpout where the pipe from the boat misses the elsan point entirely and goes everywhere...