Use the thickest wall tank you can find, this can delay the odor seeping
out. I had no oder for the first year or so and then it was pretty bad. I
flushed with fresh water and never allowed # 2 in the tank and it still got
me.

Scott

"Roger Long" wrote in message
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Ah, I see you are in fresh water.

In salt water, it is the head itself that stinks. Different kinds of
bugs and chemistry.

There is simple and there is simple. Kneeling down in the head
compartment to scrub and clean the thing isn't simple in my book.
This set up will get fresh water and deodorant anywhere the water
goes.

As for the tank, sure, you can just dump the stuff in the bowl but
that doesn't get it where it is needed.

--

Roger Long



wrote in message
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Roger:

I would advise sticking to the KISS principle.

I presume you are equipped with a holding tank. As long as your VENT
IS
CLEAR, your hoses are reasonably new and your connections are
caulked
and tight, you won't have odour.

And far simpler way to add deodorizer is to flush it through the
head.

Gary MacDonald
Kingston, ON
http://home.ca.inter.net/~gkmd/sail/CarpeDiem.htm


Roger Long wrote:
One of the things I'm not looking forward to about sailing is head
odor, especially in a boat where we'll be sleeping on top of the
holding tank. I'm thinking of setting up an arrangement like this:

I'll put a tee with a valve into the head intake line just upstream
from the seacock. This will run to a plastic tank of two to five
gallons with a large diameter screw top and a hose with valve
nearby
running to the fresh water system. Throw the deodorizer of your
choice
into the tank and fill it with fresh water. Last flush of the day,
switch the head over to the tank so that fresh water and deodorizer
runs through everything. I wouldn't hard pipe the tank to the FW
system because there needs to be an airgap between it and any
possible
connection to sewage.

Obviously not a solution for long distance cruising where fresh
water

supply is an issue but, if you're doing that, you've probably
gotten
used to odor.


--


Roger Long

"sailct41" wrote in message
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never allowed # 2 in the tank..

Now, how in the world did you do that?

--

Roger Long

sailct41 wrote:
Use the thickest wall tank you can find, this can delay the odor seeping
out. I had no oder for the first year or so and then it was pretty bad. I
flushed with fresh water and never allowed # 2 in the tank and it still got
me.

That's because the source of your odor inside the boat had nothing to do
with the tank...most likely your hoses permeated with odor. Or, you
needed to clean your bilge--really CLEAN it, not just dump in more bilge
cleaner and/or bleach, followed by flushing out all the dirty water.
Dirty sumps are another source of odor that can make a boat smell like a
swamp, or even a sewer, because they generate the same gasses as a sewer.

--
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://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1