Sunny day fun

Practiced with the wind scoop yesterday. It sends a delightful breeze through the boat. Yesterday was a good day for getting a breeze because I was fixing a leak in the head vent hose. The composting toilet works great and is actually pretty fun to use. But it has a little computer-type fan pulling air through the compost bin (shit box) and exhausting it out the transom. 

I installed the fan on a bulkhead in the aft-lazarette in an attempt at keeping it away from seawater. But installation #1 had some air leaks so that locker filled up with some pretty impressive odor. And then because of the fact that the aft-cabin where Moss keeps her pig-sty is right by the stinky locker, that space was pretty ripe. 

Anyway, I resealed the hose and housing for the fan and all is well. My new favorite product is contact cement. And old rubber truck inner tube. Great for gaskets, easy to cut with scissors, and free.

One of the things we need to re-accustom ourselves to on Cupcake-as-a-cruising-boat is that to get to stuff buried deep in that aft-locker, we need to take out all the crap that was piled on top of it first. With a weekend sailboat, there is less gear and much less need to be ready to fix anything with the materials on hand. It's not such a big deal, but it makes project planning a little more involved.