Head Reboot
Rowing my dink ashore one day, I overheard this…”What’s that smell? Oh, it’s that damn Bristol Channel Cutter Elizabeth anchored upwind of us.” That’s how it started one day. I knew it was time to rebuild the head and replace it’s associated hoses. But I kept putting it off. I mean, who willingly wants to get shit all over their hands, legs, arms and face? The real wake up call came the other day when I climbed aboard Elizabeth late one night, slid open the hatch and nearly threw up in my mouth from the stench of rotten piss and shit… all over my salon. How was I ever going to have guests over? What a mess. I waded through the disgusting sludge and crawled into my bunk without even brushing my teeth or cleaning off my shit dripping feet. I don’t know how I fell alseep that night, but it reminded me of a time in college when my roomates had a party with tons of hot girls and all these fat dudes. Of course they all got obscenely drunk, and naked, then one by one, as if on cue, they all started puking on each other, sorta like a chain reaction. The morning came to find them all sleeping on the floor… in their own vomit. Not just the guys, the girls too. Beached whales and mermaids in a brown sauce.
Anyways, actually, none of that happened at all… but I do need to rebuild my head and replace the hoses. I pulled out the head to find it lived firmly bolted to a lovely piece of plywood encased in epoxy then painted. Despite the head always leaking and it being generally a nasty moist place 24/7, this piece of plywood looked unscathed. Sam L Morse knows how to make a good perch for the throne.
So I’m into it a bit now. The Raritan PHII is out on deck, enjoying the South Florida sunshine, and my rebuild kit has been ordered, along with some Sealand odor-safe hose ($7.99/ft) for the run to and fro the holding tank. I love starting projects and taking everything apart and then stalling out. I wonder how long the head will sit on deck before I get around to rebuilding it and replacing the hoses. Another few weeks? Shall we start a poll?
