Headroom in 26M Head

[Wayne nicol]

hey fellas.
scoop up a little water in the bucket pee in the bucket, throw overboard- swish with some clean water, done.
for the fairer sex- the tp from the pee bucket goes in the garbage.
all the other stuff, and its relevant tp stays in the head.
dont understand why anybody is throwing the buckets away.

this is a really simple part of everyday life- we dont need to complicate it.
i know ALL you gents have changed yer kids diapers- so no big deal.

[RobertB]

For more info, check out http://c-head.com/Specs.html

Simply put, you sit, below you is a diverter setup where liquid goes into a gallon milk jug that is easily taken out to emptied and the solids go into a 3.5 gallon drywall type bucket that is cut down to fit on one side (thus this bucket is not sealable. Solids go into peat moss. When finished, you attach the handle and mix the solids with the peat moss - essentially making little poo balls that are pretty inoffensive and do not really smell (if left alone long enough, these probably would break down/compost). You can add more peat moss as needed (probably up to double the original amount). Main waste volume is liquid and that is easily dealt with. C-head comes with an additional lid and vent setup if you wish to transfer peat poo balls into another container for extended storage (I plan to double bag and throw in the trash). Also supplies vent plumbing for the basic head if you wish to vent. I do not believe the has room for a storage bucket or need for venting. I did make a wall cabinet behind the head to store two more milk jugs with caps and extra peat moss. I also made a low profile crank handle to fit under this cabinet.

[BOAT]

Okay, I'm really sorry, and I hope no one is offended - but I gotta ask - what if you get diarreahha? (The runs) That's a pete's moss thing right? Does that mess up the whole poo balls thing or does it handle that sort of thing just fine? sorry

[RobertB]

I guess you would need more peat moss - and Imodium

[JohnCFI]

Surely head for shore and find a proper dunny to use

[yukonbob]

Was considering cutting a hole in one of the stern rail seats and adding a wash down kit off the transom. Several problems solved

[RobertB]

You may need to time things carefully so the driver does not need to get washed down - understand the water may be a tad cold up there

[Russ]

Was considering cutting a hole in one of the stern rail seats and adding a wash down kit off the transom. Several problems solved

I wonder if that would pass certain province inspections. No pump out.
Still the simplicity of your plan is genius.

[BOAT]

Is that the poop deck?

[Sailor Dale]

Wow...what did I start by asking about headroom? Here's my candid usage info on our C-Head, which we've used for 3 trips now. We are weekenders, so our trips are 3-5 days only.

Pee jug lasts about a day and a half for me, wife and kid. I carry one extra. Very tidy operation, with absolutely no spillage, Either take it to the marina restroom in a canvas grocery bag and dump it, or pour it over the side. Rinse if you can, or just squirt a little sugar water in it. We also squirt a little sugar water in the pee diverter at every use. No odor. I assigned my 6-year old the duty of watching the pee level indicator slot, and he's been good with one exception and we had an overflow. It was contained in the base of the unit and was swabbed up with paper towels and then a wipe. I had forgotten the vendor's advice...listen when you pee, and you'll know when the jug is getting full.

Poop bucket is easy too. It has held all of our output for our 5 day trip, including the TP. When we get home, I have been dumping it into a garbage bag and into the trash. It is odor-free, and the bucket is relatively clean. I hose it out when I'm rinsing off the boat and trailer. I make up 1 gallon ziplock peat moss bags ahead of time and dump one in as I put the unit back in the boat. Somebody asked how diarrhea works with the peat moss. From personal experience, no big deal. The peat moss will cover it and take away the odor. If it was a problem, simply dump the container. The crank is simple and completely sanitary. It just rotates the paddle to coat the poop.

The vendor, Sandy, has been exceptionally responsive and full of good tips. He suggests holding off on adding an exterior vent, and I agree. We haven't needed it.

I chose C-Head over the other two composters because of cost and simplicity. The others have longer holding capacity, but are more complex. And, a big deal for us, I think you are supposed to separate the TP with those two units. We don't like that!

My switch to C-Head was caused by two-in-a-row restroom disasters with our Thetford splashing as I attempted to dump it in the toilet. I won't go back now!

[yukonbob]

Was considering cutting a hole in one of the stern rail seats and adding a wash down kit off the transom. Several problems solved

I wonder if that would pass certain province inspections. No pump out.
Still the simplicity of your plan is genius.

Just helps to top up the brown trout population.

[yukonbob]

Our head is for #1 only, unless its an emergency and the culprit feel like emptying it when we get to shore. Absolutely no paper what-so-ever in the head always in the garbage can (works in almost every other country in the world). On longer trips I row the tender to shore along with the dogs, and for those nay sayers that think leaving logs in the trees is bad you've never seen the size a grizzly sh*t in the woods after he's been eating salmon for a couple of months

PS Love the whale comment!

[BOAT]

What whales? I missed the whales . .

[Whipsyjac]

Too many similar threads, I believe the whale comment was in the canadian porta potti rules thread.
And it was super funny

Willy

[Tomfoolery]

From the referenced thread, just because I already looked it up.

We are going through the same cr@p here, pun intended. But I love the way government stick it to the little guy and don't clean up their own act. We have green zones and fishing bans then they the government approve airport extension port extensions new canal developments etc.. That wipe out more fish breeding areas than recreational fishers would do in several hundred lifetimes. They introduce laws for boat sewage such as these http://www.msq.qld.gov.au/Environment/S ... egislative to apease the minority green members of government whos support they rely upon to maintian power. Yet do nothing about the 1 Million+ dog turds that wash into the waterways everytime it rains because they have no stormwater waste management. Some estimate put our humpback whale population at 15,000 now maybe we better start harpooning them again and sell them to Japan to stop them cr@ping in the water imagine how much sewage those big things must be making.

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