Just to revisit an thread from six months ago. Check out this picture:
<http://www.wbryant.com/temp/badhose.jpg> This isn't my boat, but
someone else had head problems and pulled this hose out of the boat.
I've never seen it this bad. The hose was 8 years old.
I didn't mention this before -- at the risk of giving out Too Much
Information -- but I avoid #1 in the head. (Here's the TMI part....)
Being a guy, it's best to just hang it over the side. And when in
marinas, I use a big water jug in the head and dump it overboard at
night. You'd be amazed at the amount of crystallized minerals at the
bottom of the jug after a few iterations.
With women on board, of course, there's a different set of rules, so
it's important to flush enough water through the hoses to clear human
waste entirely through the hoses and into the tank.
Wal
On 9/13/2012 I wrote:
Yup, it's not just salt, but an extraordinary amount of excess
minerals are excreted through the kidneys (think about kidney stones,)
and can build up in the hoses and the tank as well.<snip>
you wrote:
Salt from urine crystallizes on your joker valve
and the joker valve leaks back. Ideally we are supposed to flush clean
water thru but it never happens on the Great Lakes when you are trying
to conserve holding tank space.
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s/v Stella Blue
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