Wansworth
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What happens if no electricity?
Electric toilets
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NormanS
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Bucket and chuckit.
RupertW
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No lights, no idea where you are, no chance of winching anything or starting the engine. A brown trousers moment.
Chiara’s slave
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Poignard
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Me too.
I'd much rather expend a bit of energy operating a manual heads pump than have to do the nauseating job of dismantling and unclogging an electric bog.
John_Silver
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By no means speaking from experience here (as have always had manual heads, for the reasons you have given) BUT, took a look aboard a JPK39, on the way through Lorient, earlier in the summer. Jean-Baptiste was extolling the virtues of electric heads. Said all the charter fleets fit them because they rarely block…..,Me too.
I'd much rather expend a bit of energy operating a manual heads pump than have to do the nauseating job of dismantling and unclogging an electric bog.
Chiara’s slave
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Hmmm, sounds like a challenge??
ylop
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I'm surprised that nobody does a version with a manual override?
Are they known to block more often? Given that many people suggest a lot of heads issues are user error by not flushing correctly I'm surprised that an electric pump doesn't provide an improved human-toilet-interface that has no option to only give two pumps, or leave the handle in the wrong position etc.
RupertW
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Manual loos seem to freak non sailors who then hold on too long but electrics seem fine. Otherwise I agree and would never fit an electric loo if I only had one heads.
Poignard
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Sleeps five and only one heads (and that's electric). I think I'd want to carry a bucket with a comfortable rim!
PlanB
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WE had one electric and one manual - if I only had one, it would be manual. Electric ones don't like working off the battery when underway!
Wansworth
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I ask as a possible purchase has one I assume it has a black water tank as well as Spanish law requires a boat to have one or a porta pottery,seems a bit odd in a 40yearold boat but maybe the owner is a electrical engineer or has bowel movements of more than normalfequency
LadyInBed
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Maybe not, but the macerator motor shaft rusts, then drops off. It's cheaper to buy a new toilet than a new motor!
Frogmogman
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JPK 39: one of my dream yachts. Now where’s that lottery ticket ?
John_Silver
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You and me both. Was very impressed. Cockpit layout is an object lesson in sail handling ergonomics - especially for single-handing. Down below the layout is elegantly simple (to my eyes) and designed for use underway. As I say, very taken with her. Need patience as well as Euros though, waiting list is 3 years and growing.
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Dutch01527
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My new boat has a electric toilet. Not something I had ever seen as important.
I have to say I like it a lot, especially with non sailors aboard. No problems using it underway on battery, not sure why there should be.
Remains to be seen if it gets blocked but logic would indicate that a macerator would chop up material and be less likely to block.
I have to say I like it a lot, especially with non sailors aboard. No problems using it underway on battery, not sure why there should be.
Remains to be seen if it gets blocked but logic would indicate that a macerator would chop up material and be less likely to block.
jwilson
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The ones I've sailed with worked fine but were horribly noisy.
Wansworth
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Do they discharge into a black water tank?
Rappey
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A baby Blake can have an electric conversion while retaining its manual pumping but like all parts for these toilets it's rather expensive.
howardclark
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I have a Baby Blake - the vacuum based type- with both electric and manual pumps- simple y valves to change between them
