Starting a business pumping waste tanks on pleasure boats seems simple enough. Buy an old pontoon or fishing boat. Install a pump and tank. Pick a harbor. Go to work.
It turns out things are a good deal more complicated. And Paul Weyn, owner of NW Mobile Pump Out based in Gig Harbor on Washington’s Puget Sound, has found a winning formula.He operates a year-round private business with three pumping boats and runs a federally funded service, also with three boats, that provides no-charge pumpouts to boaters on weekends and holidays from May through October.The keys to keeping the business profitable
