They don't keep the smell down for more than a day or so
in my experience no matter how well you follow the directions,
which as you say, means a lot of trips to the dump out. I guess
I just rather not do that every other day.

Of course, holding tanks can get nasty too if you don't do the
regular maintenance. One of the other instructors had a very fun,
exploding holding tank experience, when he decided to do a pump
out. Apparently, no one had bothered in a couple of weeks... yuck.
Glad I wasn't there.

"DSK" wrote in message
...
Jonathan Ganz wrote:


Portos are easy... add water and chemicals, dump and
dump. Yes, they smell up the boat.

Not if they are properly used & properly taken care of.

If your porta potty is 'smelling up the boat' then you should get a new
one and
this time, read the instruction manual.

FOr all that, I still would not recommend living aboard with a porta
potty. It
would get very tedious emptying the thing every couple of days, plus
marinas &
shore side facilities generally do NOT want them dumped into their septic
tanks.





Installed heads smell too, unless you really deal with them.

"Really dealing with them" so that they don't smell is actually pretty
easy.

Knowledge is your best weapon. Get & read & follow Peggie Hall's book
about
marine sanitation.

Regards
Doug King