Potty Problems

First chore on the ever-growing list. Fix the Forward Head.

We pulled a bunch of stuff off the boat, and got down to the business of fixing the head. All the plumbing in this area is clearly a "custom job". From what we could determine, there were three planned ways of emptying out waste. 1. Flushing waste into the holding tank where later it could be sucked out with a super vacuum at a marina (ours does not have one...) 2. Flushing waste into the holding tank and then hand pumping the waste out over the side with an installed pump. 3. Flushing the waste directly overboard. Only one of these ways was working, the first one.
Unfortunately, the first step for any solution to the problems listed above, was to clean out the holding tank. Which I will say nothing more of as not to disturb my readers with the unpleasantness of the task.

Bleach is your friend.

We also removed some decorative wood panneling that was hiding several pipes in order to provide us with more access. We repurposed the wood into a V-shelf for the girls. Next step is purchasing some foam for a new mattress and covering it.


Other miscellaneous tasks:

Hooks: We added some clothing/jacket hooks, and surprisingly that makes a huge difference. All our foul-weather gear is hung up out of the way.

Cleaning: Lots of cleaning of everything. Some rust stains cleaned, Teak oil rubbed in, bleaching on the counters, etc...

Inventory: I put in a tub all miscellaneous bits that were spread out throughout the boat. Took it home and began an inventory of spare parts.

New Sails: Both the jib and main were pretty ripped up after our windy ocean day. The mainsail is pretty much scrap sail, which we'll get rid of. Walt is fixing up the jib for us, and we should have it later this week. We borrowed from him a J-24 mainsail to put in place for the meantime, but surprsingly it is too big. It's small heightwise, but too long for our boom. So, we can still use it, but just double reefed. In the next week or so we should be ordering a new mainsail.



And the To-Do list is getting longer.