View Poll Results: What Head Do You Have And Are You Satisfied With It Poll
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<$200 Manual Pump Head ~Satisfied
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41 |
20.10% |
<$200 Manual Pump Head ~Unsatisfied
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2 |
0.98% |
>$200 Manual Pump Head ~Satisfied
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41 |
20.10% |
>$200 Manual Pump Head ~Unsatisfied
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2 |
0.98% |
Vacuum Head ~Satisfied
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20 |
9.80% |
Vacuum Head ~Unsatisfied
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0 |
0% |
Electric Head ~Satisfied
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41 |
20.10% |
Electric Head ~Unsatisfied
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6 |
2.94% |
Composting Style Head ~Satisfied
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34 |
16.67% |
Composting Style Head ~Unsatisfied
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1 |
0.49% |
Bucket And Chuck It ~Satisfied
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4 |
1.96% |
Bucket And Chuck It ~Unsatisfied
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0 |
0% |
Other...?
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6 |
2.94% |
Porti Potties! Duh! ~Satisfied
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4 |
1.96% |
Porti Potties! Duh! ~Unsatisfied
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2 |
0.98% |
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06-12-2013, 17:24
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#46
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hurricane Highway
Boat: O'Day 28
Posts: 3,920
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
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Originally Posted by ronrelyea
I've got a composter (Nature's Head) and wouldn't go back. I've done a 10 day "cruise" with two aboard for the last two years and add weekends to that. TP goes in a plastic bag in a coffee can ... each guest
gets his/her own coffee can. The compost from the last two years is still composting (well actually right now it's probably frozen) as I haven't had to empty it yet, but by this time, having had the boat on the hard since mid-October, I'm pretty sure it's composted and not just dessicated. I don't hesitate to use it even when docked at my yacht club - no worrying about making a trip to the pump-out and all it entails.
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Each guest getting their own disposal container is a great idea. Thanks.
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06-12-2013, 17:30
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#47
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: daytona beach florida
Boat: csy 37
Posts: 2,976
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
ocean girl, i think you left this one off the list...
commode from Northern Tool + Equipment
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06-12-2013, 17:49
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#48
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: northeast USA
Boat: EndeavourCat 36
Posts: 372
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
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Originally Posted by Ocean Girl
It would be great if the electric head voters would say why they are unsatisfied, i know rw58ph in post #4 said he liked his electric but not the Raritan. Rivercruise in #35 said he was satisfied with his electric head, but it was a bit noisy(great feedback).
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I am dissatisfied because it is WICKED* noisy and I am a middle aged woman who uses it a couple of times during the night. I feel like I'm waking up the entire marina! It works well, but is noisy and uses up the fresh water. So I am planning to swap it out for a Nature's Head. I'd prefer to reduce the unnecessarily electrified functions on my boat for the day when we head south.
(*this is a regionalism, from Rhode Island, USA, although my Massachusetts cousins have been known to use it, too)
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06-12-2013, 17:52
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#49
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
Onestepcsy37, I don't see it but I bet you are talking about a incinerator style head? Yes, I forgot that too. I also forgot porta potties but the mods are kind enough to add it for me. I sure would hate to bother them again about this poll. Though, only the really big boats have em, they are out there...hmmm.
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06-12-2013, 18:09
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#50
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Working in St Augustine
Boat: Woods Vardo 34 Cat
Posts: 3,865
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
I'm not a sanitation expert, but I'm pretty sure there is major health issue with disposing raw sewage in the garbage.
I think this is why there are waste water treatment plants in first world countries and lots of disease in those places with lots of humans waste piled up places.
Obviously, there are many issues to consider but dumping in a local parks garbage can seems like a very irresponsible solution.
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06-12-2013, 18:32
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#51
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: northeast USA
Boat: EndeavourCat 36
Posts: 372
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I should also mention that for a boat that is usually daysailed, with occasional overnights, and a fishing boat with a porta pottie, I use "wag bags" placed in the toilet. These are tough plastic bags with "poo powder" in them that gels up and treats the waste immediately, making it suitable for disposal in regular trash. It's much easier than making a trip to the pump out dock. Having an easy option for taking a leak makes this woman's boating much more enjoyable.
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06-12-2013, 18:38
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#52
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
Boatguy30, here is a earlier post, you bring up some good concerns.
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Originally Posted by Ocean Girl
Guy, there are some great threads about composting/desiccating here that address just what you are asking. But the short of it from my perspective: I'm desiccating poo, starting the composting process as best I can. If I dump it in the trash before completely composting is not illegal or even wrong. Consider the diaper, not illegal or wrong to dispose in trash. I dispose after one to two months in a compostable bag. It is a remarkably small amount, looks and smells like dirt. What I would love is a compost bin at the pump out stations, I think that would help the folks who are not using the toilet correctly.
Peat goes a long way. You can buy cocotek, a renewable peat, in small bricks. You reconstitute one brick to make about a gallon of peat, which is perfect to start the batch, you may have to add another gallon before the head needs emptying. So the storage of peat can be very easy. I add some cedar shavings for a natural bug repellent.
For more info and debate, feel free to check out these threads.
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ead-85662.html
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ers-96246.html
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...rds-74706.html
Hope that helps.
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Some links below about our sewage treatment here in the US.
About composting toilets | Greywater Action
http://css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS04-14.pdf
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06-12-2013, 18:46
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#53
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
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Originally Posted by bethflkys
I should also mention that for a boat that is usually daysailed, with occasional overnights, and a fishing boat with a porta pottie, I use "wag bags" placed in the toilet. These are tough plastic bags with "poo powder" in them that gels up and treats the waste immediately, making it suitable for disposal in regular trash. It's much easier than making a trip to the pump out dock. Having an easy option for taking a leak makes this woman's boating much more enjoyable.
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I thought wag bags would apply to the bucket and chuck it vote. I've used those wag bags, pretty nifty .
Article about how different countries handle their poo.
Toilet Talk | Acumen | Ozymandias
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06-12-2013, 18:58
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#54
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 38
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
The big Bertram '54 is comfortable so it obviously has electric heads but it took a while to get it all right. Hiking the old Galley Maid heads and massive stinky pumps off the boat was liberating. I also reduced the number of heads on my boat from a ridiculous 3 to a more realistic 2.
Heads are now Raritan Atlantes Elongated Bowl 32V … Vented Loop with the electronic controls. They don't clog. They are seawater toilets which seem fine to me although turning them into freshwater would be an option.
I have a Purasan system hooked to the holding tank. It's complicated but good.
Also have a bilge fan pulling all the odors down and out:-)
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06-12-2013, 19:33
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#55
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
Bayside Bert, that will be our next head system if this composting thing goes south on us. Very nice and good job!
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06-12-2013, 19:44
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#56
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: northeast USA
Boat: EndeavourCat 36
Posts: 372
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayside Bert28
The big Bertram '54 is comfortable so it obviously has electric heads but it took a while to get it all right. Hiking the old Galley Maid heads and massive stinky pumps off the boat was liberating. I also reduced the number of heads on my boat from a ridiculous 3 to a more realistic 2. Heads are now Raritan Atlantes Elongated Bowl 32V … Vented Loop with the electronic controls. They don't clog. They are seawater toilets which seem fine to me although turning them into freshwater would be an option. I have a Purasan system hooked to the holding tank. It's complicated but good. Also have a bilge fan pulling all the odors down and out:-)
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Isn't the Purasan (as opposed to Lectrasan) meant for fresh water? Maybe you will have to convert to freshwater...
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06-12-2013, 20:13
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#57
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Lake Macquarie
Boat: Bluewater 420 CC
Posts: 756
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
We have an electric head and are very satisfied. The best part is that it has never blocked, we stuff lots of paper down there and all the landlubbers seem to have no problems. Am I doing something wrong?
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06-12-2013, 20:25
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#58
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 1,144
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Raritan manual head. The pumping helps build muscle! LOL. It's simple & easy to maintain.
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06-12-2013, 22:41
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#59
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Holland
Boat: 9mtr motorboat
Posts: 33
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bethflkys
I should also mention that for a boat that is usually daysailed, with occasional overnights, and a fishing boat with a porta pottie, I use "wag bags" placed in the toilet. These are tough plastic bags with "poo powder" in them that gels up and treats the waste immediately, making it suitable for disposal in regular trash. It's much easier than making a trip to the pump out dock. Having an easy option for taking a leak makes this woman's boating much more enjoyable.
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I would be interested in the poo powder. Have you got link to the wag bags? Over here all the commercial bags are just colored garbage bags with absorbent paper inside. Cheaper for us to use garbage bags and paper towel. But if the helps treat ? the waste then I'm in.
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07-12-2013, 07:32
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#60
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Seattle WA
Boat: Roughwater, pilot house, 58 ft
Posts: 485
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Re: Head Poll -What Do You Have, satisfied?
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Originally Posted by Sabbatical II
We have an electric head and are very satisfied. The best part is that it has never blocked, we stuff lots of paper down there and all the landlubbers seem to have no problems. Am I doing something wrong?
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What brand kind oh electric head do you have?
We have a Jabsco. The throat is vertical so #2 does not go down and often plugs before the maserator. Looking for a toilet that the throat is slanted so it slides into the masorator. It noisy but we do not mind. Its fresh water so no odor.
We have a 50 gallon holding tank, pumped weekly, for the marina and a Micophor when away from the dock. Its sort of like a septic tank, just use it, no electricty or chemicals. Mostly used on larger commercial boats trawlers. Not many pleasure know have them.
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