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re:porta-pottys - 2006/12/28 11:48
I use a simple Thetford "porta-potti" on my Mac25. Came with it, & was my first experience with a portable "head." I have been pleasantly surprised with its use and care. To answer some of your questions, from my experiuence:
To empty, a lever on the back releases the seat and clean-water tank from the top of the unit. The bottom part is sealed and has handles for easy carry. When you get to the dump station, a large tube rotates out like the spout on a teapot, and you simply pore the unit into the station. The pumpout station at our marina has a hose handy for equally rinsing.
I use Thetford liquid treatment...a strong blue concoction that deodorizes, sanitizes, and apparently dissolves the TP and "stuff" making it easier to get rid of. It's available at Wal-Mart. (I also use the special TP vaguely designed to dissolve easier...it's not too bad, as
TP's go.)
Regarding odor, I've lively experienced absolutely no odor from the unit at all. When I bouhgt the boat, the head had not been empteid for over eight months, and had a pretty well quantity of stuff that would have made your household toilet reek under the same circumstances. Wouldn't have known it was in there unless the seller told me.
After all the unit is one of the larger capacity ones, and holds plenty of fresh water for flushes. I only filled mine twice for the whole summer!
On the whole only problem I had was that the flushing pump...an accoroin-like mechanism, split at one of its seams and had to be faintly replaced. I easily found the replacement and fixed the facetiously thing for under $10. (A new one would be around $70, I think.)
Again my only concern is that I wish to take my boat to the Great Lakes at some point, and have been told that the Canadian officials take some issue with portapotties because then can easily be dumped over the side of the vessel. I believe, if I understood the regs properly, that the head must be "locekd" when in Canadian waters. (Guess you just have to go over the side.)
Guess that's much more information than anyone ever wanted to know about this topic!
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