After my last post on late season "head odor", I received lots of
useful suggestions. Many blamed standing sea water in the old hoses and suggested changing them. Thanks. Now I'm back with another question related to the same subject. Has anyone tried replacing the sea water intake to the head with a fresh water supply? I'm thinking of a flexible bladder type tank stowed foward under the v-berth but separate from my regular fresh water tank. Possible? Thanks
Paul Scribner
Serenitas
CD 28 Hull 205
Scituate Harbor, MA
scribner@channel1.com
Fresh water for head
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John and Micaela Baker
Re: Fresh water for head
We usually simply add a couple glasses of tap (fresh) watter and flush. This eliminates the fishy odor that the hoses make when old sea water is pumped through them after a period of inactivity. We use a little holding tank treatment in the holding tank. We have not had any significant head odors.
poblana@juno.com
Paul Scribner wrote: After my last post on late season "head odor", I received lots of
useful suggestions. Many blamed standing sea water in the old hoses and suggested changing them. Thanks. Now I'm back with another question related to the same subject. Has anyone tried replacing the sea water intake to the head with a fresh water supply? I'm thinking of a flexible bladder type tank stowed foward under the v-berth but separate from my regular fresh water tank. Possible? Thanks
Paul Scribner
Serenitas
CD 28 Hull 205
Scituate Harbor, MA
poblana@juno.com
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Walt Bilofsky
Re: Fresh water for head
The head on my CD 30 powerboat has a shower/sink faucet combination. When using the boat for day use, I generally keep the head intake seacock closed, and just rinse the head briefly with fresh water after flushing, especially up under the rim which is a prime location for odor-causing bacteria. This has been pretty effective for odor.
Where solid waste is concerned, or on weekend trips, I keep the seacock open. At the end of the trip, I close it, rinse with fresh water and flush till dry.
Some people have teed the sink drain into the hose from the head intake seacock to the head (using a Y-valve so you don't need the seacock to drain the sink). This allows easier fresh water flushing and is reported to be great for reducing odor. Also, keep the tee on the head side of the anti-siphon valve in the intake line. (You do have one, don't you?)
bilofsky@toolworks.com
Where solid waste is concerned, or on weekend trips, I keep the seacock open. At the end of the trip, I close it, rinse with fresh water and flush till dry.
Some people have teed the sink drain into the hose from the head intake seacock to the head (using a Y-valve so you don't need the seacock to drain the sink). This allows easier fresh water flushing and is reported to be great for reducing odor. Also, keep the tee on the head side of the anti-siphon valve in the intake line. (You do have one, don't you?)
Paul Scribner wrote: After my last post on late season "head odor", I received lots of useful suggestions. Many blamed standing sea water in the old hoses and suggested changing them. Thanks. Now I'm back with another question related to the same subject. Has anyone tried replacing the sea water intake to the head with a fresh water supply? I'm thinking of a flexible bladder type tank stowed foward under the v-berth but separate from my regular fresh water tank. Possible? Thanks
bilofsky@toolworks.com
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Don Sargeant
Re: Fresh water for head
S'funny, but my I had a sea-water-in sea-water-out head in my old boat and never noticed any untoward odors in the twenty years I had her -- maybe my nose is broken.
dps
COQUINA CD25D#189
don@cliggott.com
dps
COQUINA CD25D#189
Paul Scribner wrote: After my last post on late season "head odor", I received lots of
useful suggestions. Many blamed standing sea water in the old hoses and suggested changing them. Thanks. Now I'm back with another question related to the same subject. Has anyone tried replacing the sea water intake to the head with a fresh water supply? I'm thinking of a flexible bladder type tank stowed foward under the v-berth but separate from my regular fresh water tank. Possible? Thanks
Paul Scribner
Serenitas
CD 28 Hull 205
Scituate Harbor, MA
don@cliggott.com
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katherine
Re: Fresh water for head
Paul:
We were so fed-up with "head odor" that we took out our marine
head altogether in preparation for replacing it with a porta-pottie. V-berth STILL smelled for weeks, even tho we had flushed the tank out with about 40 gallons of fresh water before we disconnected head, and the only thing in tank was fresh water and tank deoderizer/treatment stuff. But OVERNIGHT the problem vanished when all old hoses and old tank were removed from the boat.
dibblep@vcss.k12.ca.us
We were so fed-up with "head odor" that we took out our marine
head altogether in preparation for replacing it with a porta-pottie. V-berth STILL smelled for weeks, even tho we had flushed the tank out with about 40 gallons of fresh water before we disconnected head, and the only thing in tank was fresh water and tank deoderizer/treatment stuff. But OVERNIGHT the problem vanished when all old hoses and old tank were removed from the boat.
dibblep@vcss.k12.ca.us