GSS wrote:
Best setup I built was a home depot "Homer" bucket, (a $5 five gallon
pail), with a "reconfigured" old toilet seat on top...you take the
"feet" off the bottom of the seat and reposition them so they fit just
inside the bucket rim...Sit & enjoy...height is perfect, (same as any
commode-23.5") full sized seat is perfect...I was even tempted to take
it dove hunting earlier this year...but I was afraid I would fall
asleep on the John.
NE Sailboat wrote:
Hey Peggie .. I can see steve sitting at his computer going "ah ****,
another good idea down the drain".

The world of waste.

What kind of LectraSan did Columbus have? Did Joshua Slocum have a holding
tank?

Where I sail, there are lots of fisherman. They clean the fish on this
table like thing as they are heading in. Where do they dump the fish guts?

That's right ... in the ocean.

And this isn't 3 miles out! More like 1/2 mile.

Don't dead fish guts make the water unclean?

While I try to do the best I can in the pollution department. I just think
the whole "business" is out of control.

The Federal Government is about the spend another $100 billion dollars in
Iraq. Yet ,, no money hardly ever gets spent on marine
facilities in my area. There is no public landing. No public clean out.
No public access. No public marina. Nothing.

I think I am going to name my new bucket "Baghdad"

Every time I go I will be ****ting on Baghdad. Makes me want to go already.

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"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
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steve_hayes_maine wrote:

Have you considered a LectraSan? My Pearson 323 came with one which
fits neatly under the V-berth and permits discharge in all but "no
discharge" areas. Waste goes from head to LectraSan (where it is
treated) and then overboard through a seacock (which is not that hard
to install). You can buy an older "new" unit on eBay with controls for
less than $700.
I wouldn't touch one on eBay...most of the so-called "new in box" older
units are so old that the motors will no longer work or the controller is
obsolete--no parts still available, or is missing parts, or the seller ran
it dry to "test" it and destroyed the electrode pack by doing that. 99% of
the Lectra/Sans sold on eBay would cost more to get them to work again
than the price of a new one.

I'm actually contemplating turning my bow water tank into a holding
tank to receive the LectraSan-treated waste to give me the option of
not discharging even the treated waste when it is not convenient (don't
discharge where you sleep,etc.)
No reason not to discharge treated waste from a Lectra/San in an anchorage
or even in the slip. The bacteria count is 10/100 ml (the federal water
quality standard for swimming is 200) and the waste is so diluted and
bleached that its unnoticeable to anyone except someone who happened to be
diving under the boat right next to the thru-hull.

The discharge line from the LectraSan
would have a T-valve to permit direct discharge or storage.
You DO know that once it goes into a tank it's no longer consider treated
waste...you'd have to be at sea beyond 3 miles to dump the tank whether
the waste was treated first or not.
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Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/books...ku=90&cat=1304

Here's another solution: http://www.bumperdumper.com/bumper2.htm

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Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/books...ku=90&cat=1304