Peggy: Do you work for or affiliated with Peal?

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Peggie Hall/HeadMistress

I did, but not any more...

I started Peal Products in 1987 and owned it until last year, when I sold it to Raritan Engineering. So I'm very familiar with the product line--and of course recommend them highly :)--but no longer have any vested interest in them whatever. Why do you ask?
 
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Mike

I just noticed that you recommend specific...

products, for example Raritan and Peal. I am not implying you are biased toward some products over others. But I do feel that full disclosure is fair for someone in your position. I always find your advice to be informative and very professional; I always pay attention. I just want to know where you are coming from : )
 
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Greg Stebbins

I always thiught Peggie was "coming from" ......

Somewhere East of civilization (the Mississippi) and maybe North. Oh well, at least she's not from the Starfleet Academy (California) Gad, we'd all be trying to install macro-what's it organic heads and trying to cook with the gases eminating from same. :)
 
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LaDonna Bubak - Planet Catalina

Speaking of composting heads

We looked at a home built Ingrid 38 that had a composting head. The wife part of the building team (hubby died) was sooooo proud of that head and that if you were stuck in the middle of the ocean, you could drink what was in there. Uh, no thanks! LOL!! LaDonna
 
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Peggie Hall/HeadMistress

It's a very fair question...

For nearly 15 years I owned and ran Peal Products...I developed the product line based on very simple criteria: anything we put our name on had to outperform any competing product...the reason: because I had to use 'em...it would not have been good PR for the prez of Peal Products to be seen using a competitor's product because it outperformed our own. :) If we couldn't come up with a better product for a particular application--and I must have tested 100/year on my own boat as well as anyone I could talk into trying something--we didn't add one to our line...it's why there are only 4 products in the line. And althought I no longer own Peal Products, I have no problem recommending them because I continue to use them and sincerely believe they ARE the best. Practical Sailor seems to agree, 'cuz every time they've included one in any of their tests, it always comes out on top. For most of those years, Peal Products was also a distributor of heads, MSDs, holding tanks and related accessories. I got to know them all--and the companies that make them--literally inside out...and and over the years it became obvious which companies offered the best customer support, which had the worst...whose equipment was well designed and well made and whose wasn't. And except for our own product line, I never had any axe to grind by recommending one product over another...'cuz as distributors, we could sell--or not--anything we wanted to. We dropped some fairly decent lines due to poor customer support, refused to carry others--and it cost us business--because I've never been able to recommend anything I wouldn't even have as a gift on my boat. So it's only natural that I would develop preferences for one mfr, one piece of equipment over another. Early last year I sold my company to Raritan and spent a year with them as marketing consultant. Although I was absolutely delighted to sell the company--and especially to Raritan--joining them created problems for me, because although I've always been highly impressed with Raritan and the quality of both its products and its customer support, my recommending them was now "tainted" by my association with Raritan. It also created problems for them...because I'd built my reputation on "calling 'em as I see 'em" and they didn't think very much of my recommending such things as Shur-Flo fresh water pumps and SeaLand hose over theirs! :) So it was by mutual consent, and with a huge sigh of relief on both our parts, that we agreed to part company at the end of last year. I'm once again free to "call 'em as I see 'em" based solely on my experience. So yes...my recommendations ARE biased...but so are everyone's...based on their own experiences, and I'm no different--I just recommend what my experience has convinced me is the best. And yes, I admit to a certain amount of "parental pride" when it comes to Peal Products...but I also know their limitations and have never hesitated to to admit to them and recommend something else that I know would solve a problem if one of "ours" can't. As for where am I coming from Atlanta...my boat (which is a 32' stinkpot btw) is on Lake Lanier.
 
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Peggie Hall/HeadMistress

Oh yuk...

I don't think that was a composter, LaDonna...wet organic material doesn't compost it rots. However, there are some systems that--with the help of all kinds of filters and plant material and other stuff--can convert sewage into water that's just short of potable...the recycled water is used for flushing toilets, grounds watering etc. I've never heard of one being used on a boat, though...only on land by office buildings and "clean" factories...Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream installed on at their plant...I've seen photos of it...it's kind of like a greenhouse...really quite attractive--and because it's an aerobic treatment process, totally odorless. I GUESS you could drink the output if you boiled it first, but only if you had no choice.
 
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