Thanks for all the very kind words, y'all! I didn't just decide to dump a 20 year career in advertising to become a marine potty guru (although I've been told that switching from advertising to sewage management wasn't that much of a career leap), I got into it accidentally when I had a need to solve odor problems on our own first boat big enough to have a toilet and holding tank. Holding tanks were just "coming online" then...none of the products on the marine stores shelves worked--some just made it worse, adding a chemical odor to the sewage odor--and the only advice the industry had to offer was "boat toilets stink, holding tanks stink worse." So I went looking OUTside the marine industry for information. Fortunately I connected with a sewage treatment engineer who began my education into aerobic/anaerobic and sent me to a lab that made a live bacteria product he thought would help. It did! So well that our dockmates who had the same problem began asking me what it was and how could they get some...I found out I could private label it...created a little side business that I named Peal (PE for Peggie, AL for my husband Allen) Products and named it K.O. (Kills Odor) and a product line was born. It was when my husband said, "you sell the stuff to go IN the tank...everyone on the Lake (Lanier, north of the Atlanta) will have to have a tank now, so why don't you sell tanks?" I quickly discovered that to do that meant I'd also have to sell hoses, deck pumpout fittings, etc...people began asking me if I could get toilet parts too. That's when the real learning curve began....30 years later, I'm still learning! I love being able to share what I've learned through my books and seminars at rendezvous and boat shows. I'm very glad that so many of you find it useful!
--Peggie