Re: plumbing in heads and seacocks

pete wrote:

Hi all, got a little question: I'm fitting a toilet into my boat and I
am finding places to fit the inlet and outlet seacocks difficult.
The best position is with the outlet below the inlet and about 18
inches apart, but should the outlet be above the inlet to help prevent
sucking back in what you have pumped out? The fitting diagram shows
that but there is no mention of it.

18" is a bit close...and yes, the inlet sea*** should be a bit higher than the discharge sea***. But it's not on a lot of production boats...and as long as the discharge is aft of the inlet, it shouldn't give you any problems...'cuz you shouldn't be flushing directly overboard when you're anchored at all. That's illegal in ALL U.S. inland and coastal waters. You must be in open sea at least 3 miles from the nearest point on the whole US coastline to flush directly overboard or dump a tank. And they're also starting to get very sticky about where you can flush directly overboard in the UK, Europe and "down under" too.

So maybe we should talking about where to put the tank and how it plumb it instead of worrying about the relative locations of the thru-hulls.

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Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
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