Re: My wife insists on a boat with a head. How do they work?
My rig might be small (14.9) but the first accessory I bought for it was a porta potty. They are the best invention ever! Just plain mean thinking a women can go out with you for the day, have a beer, glass of wine or a soft drink and have her hold it or worse force her to pee in the woods catching poison ivy etc.
Our porta potty is a lot cleaner than most marina's, restaurants or an outhouse bathroom.
I keep it up in the bow and that matching grey boat towel serves to hide it or I put a throw-able preserver on it and it's another seat.
That blue liquid stuff I buy in walmart an ounce keeps it fresh smelling for at least 3 trips and the quart bottle last for a couple of seasons. I just have to empty it when the bottom tank gets full.
I just bring it in the house and pour it into the toilet.
One time I got to the lake an hour away and realized I left the port potty in my garage . . . Man was my wife pissed having to use one of those plastic bottles like the ones you pee in when in the hospital. West sells the Little Johns in pic below. I keep one in both my car trunk too when traveling and they make an attachment for women too shown in light blue just below the little john pic.
But the port potty is the best investment ever for a carefree and comfortable day of boating.
And give me a break . . those of you who say they turn around or don't use a port potty . . . one way or another its winding up in the lake and the lakes I boat on are also drinking water for the houses around the lake.
I keep it fastened with a bungie cord, so it stays in place but they come with screws and brackets to deck mount it.
Check out this pic taken from a restaurant balcony showing where I keep the PP. And check out the second pic. It's another accessory thats a wife saver (git it, lifesaver/wife saver) iboats sells this one too around $50. It clips under your bimini when needed like when we are moored with other boats around or docked at a marina. It's canvas and made by Taylor Made who makes quality stuff. It can be used also as a changing room or we put the port potty in it when we need too. I suppose it might have other uses too
