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Paul Cassel

wrote:
... When far offshore, no sane person uses the toilet anyway so
it's a day sailing issue only.

That's a pretty ambitious statment. When the deck is being swept by
waves and it is dark, rainy and windy I think it is wise to use the
heads below rather than hanging my ass over the rail or trying to cart
a bucket of ofal to the lee side. Still, I spend a great deal of time
offshore in small boats so I suppose my sanity is open to question.

More to the point, I agree that the porta-potty is the easiest,
cheapest and likely best solution. I did the same thing to a CAL 36
that I owend years ago and it worked well for camping. If I were going
to live with the thing I think it might be worth checking to see if you
can go with a type III MSD. You'll have to check out the power, space
and legal problems before you even get to the cost... If you are up
for a bit of mad scientist action you might look into modifying a
composting tiolet to meet your needs. My current boat has the holding
tank in a deck locker so there are no through deck fittings...

-- Tom.

Well, my reply was hyperbolic and I assumed all would take is as such.
Of course, if you are offshore and in heavy weather you'd use the
toilet, but in this case, the OP would have the PortaPottie along anyway.