We use marine grade TP and pump out every time we fuel (about every week or so). The head is there to be used.

 

I maintain it and we use it. I prefer my own private bathroom plus I would rather not have to walk to the head every time I need to go. It's one thing at my home port but on the islands in their public restrooms well lets just say some of them I would choose not to.

 

My wife's first and foremost criteria when we were looking to buy a boat was the head. Mine insists on not only using the head but also taking a shower there vs. public showers in a marina. Happy wife.........

 

I'm with TJ. The heads and showers are built in to the boat to be used. We have two heads, both with separate shower stalls that are large enough to take a nice shower in.

Why not use them?

 

I'm with TJ. The heads and showers are built in to the boat to be used. We have two heads, both with separate shower stalls that are large enough to take a nice shower in.

Why not use them?

+1!

Ours is the same and we do....she has hers and I have mine...

Bennett

 

Or why do some use the marina showers when they have live aboard size boats with nice separate shower compartments. Beats me, but they must have their reasons

 

If you were shopping for a boat and the advertisement said 15 year old boat that has never been cooked on, slept on, never started the microwave, never started the water heater, never used in salt water, always stored under a roof on a lift, never been rained on, never used the head....Would that not add value to you???? It does me and for that reason I have a boat that meets all those criteria....It adds a "premium" in some buyers minds.


Also where we boat we mostly tie up with "go fast" boats that do not have a head...A "public restroom" scenario is soon to follow.


We are on an inland lake and very few would sleep on boats at Lake of the Ozarks.

 

If you were shopping for a boat and the advertisement said 15 year old boat that has never been cooked on, slept on, never started the microwave, never started the water heater, never used in salt water, always stored under a roof on a lift, never been rained on, never used the head....Would that not add value to you???? It does me and for that reason I have a boat that meets all those criteria....It adds a "premium" in some buyers minds.


Also where we boat we mostly tie up with "go fast" boats that do not have a head...A "public restroom" scenario is soon to follow.


We are on an inland lake and very few would sleep on boats at Lake of the Ozarks.

I didn’t buy a $300,000 dollar boat to not use it. Mine will bring top dollar because I use it regularly and maintain it to a very high standard. I know people that have those no number two rules and that’s not the only thing that makes them peculiar.

 

My grandmother used to put clear plastic covers on her furniture too. I guess it was so they they would look good for the estate sale 50 years later?

I am not going to hold it, walk a long distance to the marina washrooms, or not use our head so the next owner has a nice clean start. Makes about as much sense as not using the boat too much so the hours on the engines are nice and low for the next owner.

And if someone told me they never used the head on a boat they are trying to sell, I will just assume they are lying.

 

The analogy I usually get teased with is it is like saving your girlfriend for the next guy.....I like the estate sale comparison......

 

Exactly! The next guy is getting something with a lot of miles on her!

 

If ya got it...Flaunt it!

 

I am often amazed at the number of boat owners who don’t use their head. And not just on stay aboard cabin boats. I know several guys that have a nice head in their fishing or day boats and will not let the wife use them. I see another friends wife make the poop walk early every morning because he doesn’t allow number two on the boat.

Why do so many people feel this way? In 10 years of full use we have never had an issue with our vacuum systems. I get the whole part that you have to teach everyone not to put paper down, not to throw personal hygiene items down etc. But why do so many feel that way?

MM

They have deeply ceded emotional issues caused by severe toilet training when they were young.

 

Yep. One of our requirements for our 'next' boat was a pump out head. We bought it to use it.

My wife use to buy throw rugs for her vehicles as soon as she bought a new one. Left them there until we traded it in years later. Rugs looked like crap. But she said the floor under it looks like new. I told her the next owners will appreciate that after we went 3 or 4 years with crappy looking throw rugs. Her newest car does not have throw rugs...lol

 

In my 12 years being a member at a yacht club with nice showers I have never taken in a shower at the clubhouse, always on the boat. If I'm on the boat and the "relieve" myself it happens on the boat.

Don't me started on the red wine thing!

 

Don't me started on the red wine thing!

HEY! I resemble that remark. Ain't nobody gonna drink no red wine on my boat, no how, no way. The red wine consumption section is the same as the smoking section--they're both 25' aft of the swim platform. Unless we're on plane, then it's only 20'.

 

A smelly public restroom with wet TP on a floor and a cold shower surrounded by mildew. Doesn't get much better than that.

 

Mine is a pump out portapotie and the space for showering in s 278 is tiny even for this little guy. We use the head if needed but try to use land facilities when available, myself and my 5 yr old ,my youngest is in diapers still. .we dock on s private dock without amenities so pump out is only available when we take on fuel and water

 

We use the shit out of ours. Why have a 30 ft boat if ya have to walk 1/4 mile to do a dookie or take a shower. After the walk back from skanky showers in a hot summer july you end up smelling like a #1 sub. I say if ya have it use it.

 

Our marina facilities are top notch -- Clean and air conditioned. My head it the old pump it yourself. To me it's easier to take the short walk to use the facilities. Saves me the trouble of pumping out and winterizing.

 

I love my separate shower stall so much that I take almost as many showers on the boat during the season as I do at home.
If I’m puttering around on the boat and get sweaty, I jump in the shower before heading home. If I go straight to the boat from the gym in the morning, I jump in the shower.
Great way to keep using up the 100 gallons in the fresh water tank so it stays fresh.
I use the heads on the boat all the time, but I have to admit that if I have the opportunity to drop the bomb in a clean place other than on the boat I take it. The heads get used for that only if no other clean option is available.
Makes no sense at all, but being a bit OCD, neither do a lot of things I do.
My wife tells me all the time that they make medication for people like me.

 

Yes. Its called alcohol.

 

If you've got it - use it. On my 3rd cruiser now - first with a separate shower stall. We showered on both other ones with the full "wet" heads - but very nice now to not have to dry it out after showering before continuing on with the day. Pump out anytime I want for free at the fuel dock or for $30 they will pump me out on Tuesdays...

 

Guess I'm a bit on the other side of the coin. Our new to us boat has a great head and separate shower...but if at the slip, I much rather us to walk to the facility for using the head. Clean, air-conditioned facility helps a lot. On the water it's a different story, at least for the gals - if they gotta go, they gotta go. I guess I just don't like the idea of carrying around a bunch of #1 and #2 if it's not necessary.

 

In a lot of cases I think people just don't know how to use their toilet properly, they're afraid of messy bowls and system clogs.

 

Close but in my case I have a fear of plumbing repair.... I hate and despise plumbing to the point of throwing up a bit in my mouth coupled with small convulsions .... The only thing worse than doing it myself is paying a plumber to do it.

So to minimize an opportunity for a #2 repair... we use the toilet primarily for #1 and we walk to use facilities for #2 unless there aren't any or there is an urgent need.

 

We have never thought twice about not using our own head.... What is wrong with you people???

 

We use the crap out of ours. There are folks that will only pee in them - they have the stinkiest boats too. Gotta poop if you're going to pee in them as the poop actually helps break down stuff.

 

We use ours like we are at home and besides the initial hassle of de bugging the system, I’ve never had a problem.

We use Scott brand RV paper as sparingly as possible and never had a clog.

The shower is excellent as well, but I have to say that if it were a wet head, usage would be rare.

 

We use Scott brand RV paper as sparingly as possible and never had a clog.

Do you have users declare their intentions and requisition two sheets of paper before entering the room?

 

+1 Use as well.