Chichester Yacht Club Magazine September 2018 | Page 30

Talking Heads - by Kate Williamson,
Rear Commodore Motors
Early on in our ownership of Wizard, it became
clear that we would have to do something with
the heads. The existing sea toilet, needed new
valves etc at the very least. At the same time
we realised that we would be using the boat as
weekend accommodation as well as for
cruising, and therefore we needed more than a
sea toilet.
across the Carolyn
Shearlock’s “the Boat
Galley” Blog. One
particular Blog about
prioritising repairs or
changes caught my eye.
In that article she was talking about prioritising
according to their limitations, and one of the
One of our friends kindly pointed out that there limiting factors on their blue sea sailing, was
was plenty of room for a holding tank under our that they needed a pump out every three days.
bed. Indeed there is, but space on boats as we As a consequence a composting heads shot to
all know is at a premium, and so I will confess
the top of their priority list.
to not being overwhelmingly pleased at the idea
Composting Heads? Really? Is there such a
of a holding tank there.
thing?
Oddly, at about the same time that we started
thinking about the toilet, I was trawling the
internet for ideas about the Galley, and came
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