I second what Connie says about removing then the portapotti and revealing a great seat. When I was looking for a boat Connie showed me his and when I hesitated because of the lack of sitting headroom he showed me this technique. I have removed the portapotti and use this seat all the time. There's plenty of leg room, good back support and arm rests. One day I fell asleep sitting there. When I bought my boat the PO said the portapotti was never used. Since then I've noticed many boats for sale with the statement "portapotti never used". I think they're one of those things that sounds good, but in practice is more of a problem than a convenience. For my use a bucket, a beer bottle, the rail or even the cockpit scupper works fine. I think direct animal discharge is still legal. Be careful if you use the rail. I read somewhere that most sailors who drown after falling off their boats have been found with their fly down. Rick Langer M15 #337

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:30:31 -0500 From: chbenneck@juno.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: More... Two more cents worth To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: <20041104.200807.2308.1.chbenneck@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi Bill,

If you take out the Portapotti in an M15, and put a cushion in it's place, it becomes a very nice seating position for drinking a Martini, and watching the evening sun go down.

I have a little pancake SONY CD player that runs on some AA batteries, and can enjoy the evening, with some Mozart gently playing - provided that some bozo in a PWC isn't making maximum noise and maximum waves lousing up the ambiance............

Connie