Manual head: when is it full?

[John]

This is my first season with my 1984 C22. It's got a manual head, which we've used a total of three times.My questions:-how do you know when the holding tank is full?-the last time I flushed it, the bowl did not fill up with the blue stuff.-does the pumpout station add the blue stuff or do I buy it and fill it up somewhere in the head?Thanks.

 

[Ron]

ask Peggie

I add the blue stuff to the holding tank, not the head because I find that it eats the various soft parts of the unit. Select "expert forums" and ask Peggie the head mistress for her opinions.

 

[Chuck15486]

Where are you located

John -What is the name of your boat and where do you sail out of?ChuckS/V Obsession

 

[Lauraine3557]

I've never heard of a C22 with anything

other than a porta-potty. Is this what you're referring to? If you have an actual marine toilet with holding tank, I'd be real curious to know where/how it was installed.

 

[Bayard Gross]

C-22 Marine Head

Yes, some Catalina 22's have a real marine head. That is a porcelain head that draws water from a seacock and then dispenses the waste to either a holding tank or via a Y valve out through another larger seacock. My ‘81 C-22 came so equipped.John when you say “the bowl did not fill up with the blue stuff” leads me to believe you have a style of porta-pottty.While a porta-potty could be emptied at a pump out station, this is generally not the procedure. One usually removes the porta-potty and empties it ashore into a toilet or other acceptable receptacle.Even if you are at the Waldorf Astoria of pump out stations, I don’t think they’ll add the “blue stuff” to your porta-potty. It tends to be an owner-installed item.

 

[John]

Manual head - and answer to Chuck

Chuck - I hope you check these postings - I sail out of Erie Basin Marina.I don't have a name on my boat yet, since the name arrived in the mail after I launched it. It's Fezziwig: Dock F3 at Erie Basin Marina.Where are you?