Toilet/ heads arrangement in 1960's Robert Tucker Mystic 21.

[prv]

There is an e-bay capability for finding items like the one you are looking at that sold recently, that will tell you what they fetch on e-bay.

Shows three complete toilets sold (as opposed to spares etc) - for remarkably low prices. Two for 99p and one for £5.50.

All were "collection only", which always limits the price, but even so that's amazing. I guess if nobody else is looking for one at the time then you get it for the start price, and if the seller puts it on with a low start and no reserve...

Pete

 

[jpay]

I Picked up a second hand Simpson Lawrence 400 for my Galion 22 not too long ago for £40 on ebay. Was an early buy it now stop the auction offer.

It came in mint condition and fitted perfect. They are about ebay is just a game of right place right time. Good luck.

 

[Fantasie 19]

That's the one !! A funny shallow bowl compared to modern ones but many 60s small boats had them fitted.

That was the one I had in my (also Robert Tucker designed) Fantasie 19 - same vintage as the OP's boat... I think you're right..

My hull outlet was exactly the same, slightly different inlet but only because it looks like I had lost the strainer at some time in it's life..

 

[Fantasie 19]

It won't fit, due to the triangular shape of the hull and the square shape of the porta-potti. Plus you then end up carrying a plastic bottle full of sewage around, which has never struck me as a very good idea in a small and lively boat. You can't (shouldn't) empty it overboard if you use the porta-potti chemicals, and if you don't use the chemicals then it's basically just an expensive and overcomplicated bucket.

Bucket-and-chuckit (or go directly over the side) at sea, use the shoreside facilities if packed into a marina.

Pete

I agree...

One of the fellow forumites came up with a top tip to make the whole thing a little easier if solids are involved... buy yourself a roll of bio degradable bin bags, put them in the bucket do your business and you can then dispose of the bag safe in the knowledge the seahorses won't be discembobulated for the next 400 years, and you don't have to scrub the bucket....

 

[oldharry]

Portapottie and Elsan now market a green fluid which works almost as wrll as the original. It is intended for modern 'natural' sewage disposal systems. More remote campsites are tending to insist on it we have found. Said to be safer for seahorses too

 

[HandmadeMatt]

I just lost the auction on eBay. I bid up to £56 maximum bid in the final 15 seconds, from a 99p auction and lost it in the final seconds! Blimey, competitive stuff. I'll hold out though until another comes along.

 

[Searush]

Portapottie and Elsan now market a green fluid which works almost as wrll as the original. It is intended for modern 'natural' sewage disposal systems. More remote campsites are tending to insist on it we have found. Said to be safer for seahorses too

Even "green" chemical loo fluids are bad for bacterial decomposition of any kind. Current thinking on other fora is that Biological washing liquid or tablets are much better & less damaging to the environment. But best of all is still raw sewage as it provides rich nutrients for many, many organisms & the most modern systems use an SOG (developed by Hymer but now widely adopted on many top end motorhomes) system which sucks air out of the loo when the valve is opened so that smells do not enter the toilet. The outlet of the pump is fed outside the loo thro a carbon filter so as not to gas the neighbours.