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Volume 28
Number 17
September 2002

Portable Heads

The Thetford AquaMate, with its bells and whistles and impressive three-year warranty, is our top choice. The simple but comfortable SeaLand Sanipottie earns Best Buy honors.

The three portables tested (left to right):
ûSanitation Equipment’s Visa Potty, SeaLand’s
ûSanipottie 965 MSD, and Thetford’s AquaMate
û875 MSD.

As boatowners have had to cope with local no-discharge regulations, many have decided to yank their conventional heads for a far simpler solution: the portable toilet.

Today there are three principal makers of portable heads: Thetford, which originated the portable toilet, called Porta Potti; SeaLand Technology, which makes the Sanipottie; and Sanitation Equipment Ltd., a Canadian firm that produces the Visa Potty. (As we observed when we last reported on portable heads, back in September of 1993, there seems to be no consistency on the spelling of these devices, though Webster apparently prefers "potty.")…

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