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Just 2 cups of water for a brick of coir for us, less is more I guess. As mentioned up thread we’re at 13 years and counting with the Natures Head. Of all the heads we’ve had (5 so far over 30 years) its been on the boat the longest so far. Very happy with it minus a few nits. It has a...

@Max Rockatansky Probably, but whatever works I guess. Million ways to skin a cat and all that.

True of course but I get unreasonably cranky every time I had to decompress a brick “and” swap out the head as well so got in the habit of getting the next 3 or 4 recharges plumped up and ready to go.  One less step when I had to recharge the head at sea as well.

I don’t kitty litter scoop but it still makes me wonder what the hell I’m doing wrong, perhaps it’s my “brisk young bowels” to quote Stephen Maturin. I decompress all my coir ahead of time so that takes up a bit more storage. These plastic buckets are squirrelled into nooks and crannies...

I wonder what changed, any ideas? it’d be great if it was a one off event due to other factors. Maybe they’ve recently changed the formula of the corn cob. I mentioned up thread that some peat moss brands in Mexico and Central America had a chemical added that stalled the aerobic process and...

Yup, doesn't need much water. I break the brick up into chunks say the size of an orange add a half cup of water and put a tight lid on it and let it do its thing. An hour or so later it's broken up and increased in size. Done.

Read about a guy who did this. It’s an appealing idea since an emergency 3am session to empty a full bucket because certain people forgot to do so earlier loses it’s charm after a few times. Not naming names of course ;) All I smell is soil or peat. It really is a nice change to that whiff...

Guy Druce, sometime back in the late nineties as I recall. Memory’s a bit dim.

He was probably worried that being in a submarine for 279 days everything would get wet so brought extra.  :D   He told me he would hang his ass over the side which was easy to do with the 4 inches of freeboard those things have. Five knots of boat speed did the rest, claimed it worked a treat...

Had a friend who set out from Victoria BC to sail around the world nonstop. He had to stop in San Francisco for repairs outbound but then didn’t stop there after he circled but instead sailed straight to Victoria.  The record keepers told him he technically hadn’t sailed around the world nonstop...

I recall now the nice man mumbling something about the whole urine disposal being a thing.

Got it, had my doubts about his statement but kept my head down anyway. Yes, I recall now seeing the the honeywagon putzing about in the mooring field.

When we arrived in Annapolis MD in May of 2018 The nice man who was taking our money for the mooring mentioned pump out stations. I told him we had a composter and he said to keep it quiet and not tell the harbourmaster since they were illegal there. Is this true? I have heard of some push back...

Been up shit creek so much I know the route in the dark Which rule? There’s a lot of em. My mom had a bunch and my MiL has even more but they’re crazy rules  You ask her, I’m not going to ask her, I’m staying out of it! Yup, that’s the beauty of these things, simple. Broke the crank once and...

Interested in the reports as well. I’m thinking that since the smaller capacity of the OGO means recharging more often one might be able to do a regular cleaning and inspection of the complicated bits while the bucket is out of the way.  I was just telling my wife about the OGO and she...

On the Nature's Head there are two brackets that bolt to the head sole with big hand knobs that screw into the unit. Ok for keeping the thing attached to the sole but there should really be four to make it a bit more secure. I like that I don't need tools to spin the knobs off if I have to move...

True, but in Kris Cringle’s use case it might work out ok. Day to day liveaboard use 24/7 year round maybe not so much. I can’t help thinking OGO could have designed the mixer to do what they wanted it to do without going through the bottom but perhaps they’ve solved the “cutlass bearing”...

This,  Been living with the composter since 2009 and was unaware of these gnats until we arrived in Florida in 2017, what is it with that place? Even 3 years in Colon and Bocas del Toro weren’t a problem. Like you we don’t bother initially wetting out our coir for the same reasons, no need...

A bout of diarrhea means you have to recharge sooner is all. If its chronic all bets are off. A fuzzy but persistent memory tells me I may even have thrown up in it once. The compost survived, just had to swap it out sooner. Mexico style.

True dat! on a related note, Anyone else have fond memories of their first, um, err, “event” with a composter?  My memories are/were mildly disconcerting, immediate necessity demanded I get over it but still...It was the first time in my adult life where making boom boom made for a red letter...