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• What is the best manual head?
  • LAVAC...Just works..
    • Very happy with Lavac too - simple and low maintenance
    • Lavac - the only marine head designed not to leak...
      • I agree, why cruisers continue to choose something more complicated over something so simple is a mystery to me (grin)
        • Where are you now Jon? Bahamas? or still in Freezing ass cold Florida!
          • Yeah, my cockpit weather cloths have proved more valuable down here, than back in NJ in December... (grin)
            • Jon, about Sunset Lake
              • There are three canals that feed into Sunset Lake, the middle one has no bridge...
    • Don't need a Y-valve..
  • If money is no object, go with a Baby Blake
    • Groco model K rebuild
      • It may fix it...it may not.
    • Baby Blake is a bit more than I want to pay...
      • Price of Baby Blake ain't nothin' compared to the Blakes Victory...
  • I need compact...
    • Very happy with the Raritan Compact PHC
      • PHII Raritan
        • Raritan Head
  • Lavac!!!!
    • Does the seat and inside of the top get wet when you flush your Lavac?
      • If I ...
      • This is one of the reasons I say, "install according to instructions..."
        • Sounds pretty finicky. Will stick with the Raritan PH-II or PH-C
          • Jil and I have
          • What might be "common" is the lack of understanding...
            • I'll add my voice to the chorus Lavac !
          • Several things to go wrong in the installation, not much goes wrong in use...
  • Another vote for Lavac
  • Groco Model K
  • I love the Lavac
  • Have you thought of going to a composting head.
    • Won't fit..the head is in the bow and quite narrow where the appliance has to go...
  • Most of the parts are available for my WC Jr.
    • I contacted WC - they don't have parts for my skipper...
      • Yeah, 1936... That's pushing it a bit. Maybe
        • I need a new bowl
          • Todd, trying to get a head in trying times ain't easy, is it?
            • Wheww! I read that too fast the first time
            • LOL! Good one Westy.
            • Arrghhhh!!!!!
          • You might try an adaptor plate that
            • Definitely worth considering...
              • Bummer, I think you need to upgrade
          • Nothing special about the bowl...
            • Thanks Peggie, I have the parts blow-up for the Skipper II
  • As Peggy suggests -- I think the best value is the Raritan PHII with the bigger bowl (more like a conventional toilet)
    • A PHII won't fit
      • Then can a Lavac?
        • Looks like a Lavac would fit...
          • What about the PHC?
            • It won't fit with the side pump
              • If you don't want plastic, you don't want a Lavac either...
                • I don't have a problem with an external plastic pump...
                  • All pumps are external, Todd
                    • I meant external to the head assembly, however...
  • baby blake manual toilet..
  • Todd there is a rebuild/maint kit still made
    • Those are kits for the new Skipper II