"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
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Dene wrote:
Just bought your book on Amazon. $16.50 including S&H.

Hope you find it useful!

One question about manuel pump toilets compared to the porta potty we
had on
our prior boat. We never had an odor problem. The solution was pumped
in
with the water prior to flushing and out into the holding tanks.
Whereas,
manual flush toilet draws in river water and then flushes it. Isn't
that a
recipe for odor? We've noticed that this head smells far worse than the
porta-potty ever did. Nothing unbearable....just noticeable.

Fresh water usually doesn't stink...but it can if the water isn't very
clean...the organic matter and bacteria in it stagnate in the head
intake line and pump. If you get into shallow water you can also pull in
weeds and bits of organic debris that get caught in the pump and channel
in the rim of bowl, die and decay...and stink. If you have odor from
your toilet even though the seacock is closed and the only water going
into it is fresh water from the sink, you prob'ly have some stagnant
river water trapped in it, or some weeds.

If the whole boat kinda smells, permeated sanitation hoses are the most
likely culprit...new hoses is the only cure for that. Or, your bilge and
sumps just may be in need of a SERIOUS cleaning instead of just dumping
in more bilge cleaner...wet dirty bilges and sumps can smell just like a
sewer.

I've never put bilge cleaner in. I'll try that.

I've forgotten (if you ever mentioned it)...what IS your new
boat...size, make, age?

It's a 2000 Maxum 2400 SE, roughly 25 feet long. It's been in the water
since 2002, stored in a boathouse.

The hoses you speak of. Are you referring to the ones in the head? If so,
then we'll replace them when the Raritan is installed.

-Greg