rhys wrote:
On Sat, 06 May 2006 09:33:23 -0400, Jeff wrote:


Although I'm generally pleased with the Lavac, I hesitate to recommend
it to people that are really looking for something as close as
possible to a home toilet. Most guests are baffled by its operation,
and prefer to hold it until they get ashore!


My wife and I are going to sail test a steel cruiser shortly and her
rationale for wanting this particular boat as a
liveaboard/passagemaker was the presence of a new manual Lavac.

For someone just five feet tall, she seems consumed by the notion that
Lavacs are the one marine head you can "flush a pair of jeans down".
Personally....

R.

Sorry, Lavacs are not that powerful. The pump is simply a Henderson
Mk V bilge pump. The manual version can pass small debris and waste
fairly well, but the electric can get its flapper clogged by a small
bit of solid waste; I end up stripping our down once a year (a 20
minute task). The difference is that you can give a mighty yank on
the manual, while the electric just chugs along at a modest pace.

There is one electric vacuum head that can pass a t-shirt, but I think
it requires fresh water; Peggie probably knows which one it is.