Sea Toilet conversion

[ontheplane]

Am looking at (perhaps) getting back into a boat - may well have to be at the end of the season when all the bargains come up (yeh right).

One question though, have seen a boat I like (dangerous) but it has a sea toilet. Given we're going to be restricted to lakes, rivers and perhaps canals in the next year or two due to two tiddlers, I can't use a sea toilet.

I have a porta potti in the garage, is there an (easy) way to remove the sea toilet and put into storage, cap off all the pipes neatly in the boat and fit the porta pottie in the same space for now, to refit the sea toilet at a later stage?

Thanks....

 

[rafiki_]

Yep, very easy conversion. Close the sea cock, stick a bung in the inlet and outlet hoses, then remove the bowl and replace with your chemical toilet.

 

[ontheplane]

I take it I'll still be able to see the pipes though. I guess I could always take them off at the seacock end?

I am lucky in that at work we use a liquid membrane that you paint on a roof, and it cures to a seamless membrane totally waterproof. If I painted that over my bung and a few inches down the pipe, it probably wouldn't leak even if the seacock failed!

 

[rafiki_]

I would leave the hose on the sea cock, pop a bung in and a jubilee clip around the hose. The sea cock would be the primary point of closure with the bung as the fail safe.

 

[Tranona]

You only need a short length of hose to use rafiki's method, so nothing will be visible. Make sure you open and shut the valves regularly so that they do not seize up through lack of use. No water will come in because of your bungs. No need to seal them over as the clamped bung in a hose will be secure.

 

[Imperial One]

Has the boat got a holding tank fitted?
If not then fit one into the system and you have just improved the boat anyway.
Then you have no issues except where to pump it out!

 

[ontheplane]

It's only a 24' cuddy so not sure if there is room?