Porta-Potti Solution

Must be kinda like having a hole in your pocket is entertaining - when you're about 13 ? :shock: Course now it is just something your keys get lost thru....
 
The Ranger Tug has one of those little doors to the men's room
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This may be a diversion more than a hijacking of this thread, but it is in regards to porta-potties. If any of you Brats are heading for the Keys, Boot Key Harbor has a new rule in effect: all marine toilets, including porta-potties, must have a pump out connection. Porta-potties must be attached to the boat, and no removing the holding tank to dump. Fines will be imposed. We have some sailing friends there who are dealing with this and had to buy a new porta-pottie with the pump out connection while they were there.

Also, if you prefer to go off-shore to dump, all along the Keys to the Gulf side, the law is now 9 miles off-shore, instead of 3.

Just passing along the most current info.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Jim,

Thanks for the info. I'll be in Boot Key Harbor by this weekend, but that really stinks, pun intended. The last thing I want to do is buy a new Porta Potti and bolt it into position, as we often move it from v-berth area when we use it.

Nick
"Valkyrie"
 
The alternative to getting a new porta-potti is just use a bucket lined with plastic kitchen bags. After use, tie off bag and put it into a larger yard trash bag that sits in a milk crate in the engine well.

Empty the large bag in the marina dumpsters. Most marina's have trash dumpsters, right? Replace bags as necessary.

Use a mason jar or large plastic cup for liquids and just empty over the side and rinse.

Allan
 
Hey gang!
On Gypsy, we use a "Pet" potti which, as mentioned already, uses a plastic bag type system. The bags available from Pet are bio-degradable and have a little dab of a chemical in the bag. West Marine has the Pet in the catalog. Works great for us and stows in the V-birth just like the porta-potti. I think the Grand Canyon hikers use these.
Mike
 
Our Porta-potti sits unused and dust-covered in the garage. The 5 gallon bucket that I use for a container and a seat (with the lid on,)in the cockpit doubles as a john. With a cheap little potti seat made for that purpose and those double-lined, sealable, bags that you can buy at Sportsmans Warehouse it's a lot more comfortable than a PortaPotti. The supplies and the potti seat stay in their own bag. The bucket holds stuff I need to keep out of the way.

Pat
 
Jim, thanks for posting a link to the regulations.
I now can understand the consequences of discharging in a bay or area that does not circulate it's water enough, even if it is such a small amount.
Enforcing the regulation in this situation would be difficult, in my opinion.
"Officer, your mistaken. It wasn't pee, it was stale beer from last night" or "it was cold coffee." :wink Where's the proof?

As to the Boot Key regulation concerning secured porta-potties and discharge tubes, do boaters have to research every town, hamlet, city's municipal codes that they pass thru so they are in compliance? :?

It sounds more like a speed trap with a local stimulus package thrown in. :x

At some point, localities will over-regulate to the point of chasing the boater off the water.

In the mean time, I'll use a milk jug and save for later dumping. :mrgreen:

Allan
 
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