Log Entry 12th July 2009

This entry was intended to be about an overnight trip planned for Thursday and Friday just passed, unfortunately the 25-30 knot south-easterlies put paid to that. Instead I used the two days to install the new toilet.

As usual nothing in life vaguely related to things mechanical turned out to be trouble free, well that's the way it always seems for me anyway. Wasn't initially happy with the tight fit of the of the toilet and seriously considered cutting a hole in the forward bulkhead to gain some extra space. I really wasn't keen to start hacking into any part of the hull though and so I let it be and thought about it Thursday night. It occurred to me that may of these toilets are constructed symmetrically, that is you can reverse the fittings so that the bowl and pump can be switched from left to right. Returned Friday morning to find that this was happily the case with this toilet. The photo in the previous blog shows the bowl on the left whilst the fitted version shows it on the right. Results in a lot more "not so squeezey" room to relax and read the paper or a novel while on the can.

Took this image of another Hood 23 in the dying light as we left Friday afternoon. It's the first time I've seen a full keel version of Lara out of the water. Nice lines, from the look of the hull I suspect it was slipped for anti-fouling.