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Hi guys

It’s been a tough week here in Denmark. I had my last wisdom tooth pulled and spent Saturday laying up fiberglass for 12 hours. I’m glad this week is over ;) Having said that I’m proud of the progress I’ve made aboard Athena. By next weekend I should be done with laying up glass (there are still the area under the old head and the aft cabin left).

Meanwhile, I’ve started looking into what head to get aboard Athena. I’m trying to decide between a regular electric macerator head vs. a vacuum head. I’m very interested in the Raritan heads but I can’t find them for sale anywhere over here. For the vacuum option, I’m looking at VacuFlush series from Dometic (but those are somewhat pricy). Cement-boat-guy seems to think vacuum is the way to go for trouble-free operation. It would be nice to get the head situation figured out so I can plan the layout accordingly :) What heads do you guys have good experiences with?

Hopefully next weekend I can empty out the aft cabin and get started on the new bulkhead. A few more weeks and then I should be done with all this laying up fiberglass nonsense :D I feel like I’m over the worst of it (the area under the aft cabin/head is smaller)

I hope you’ve all had an awesome weekend. Thank you so much for your support! :)

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Sail Life - First pice of the new cabin sole and back to laying up fiberglass - DIY sailboat refit

It’s back to the salt mine! Or in this case laying up glass. Join me for yet another fun DIY weekend aboard Athena. Why am I doing this? Watch this video https://youtu.be/UzSFMKcCWqA *** Links *** Sail Life Shop: (Items are shipped from the US!) https://saillifeshop.com/ Sail Life on Patreon: http://bit.ly/SailLifeOnPatreon Sail Life on Instagram: http://instagram.com/madsdahlke Sail Life on Facebook: http://bit.ly/SailLifeOnFacebook Sail Life on Twitter: http://bit.ly/SailLifeOnTwitter Donations for the sandpaper fund: https://www.paypal.me/saillife

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Dermot Tynan

I'd avoid an electric head. Had one on our boat, and it was on the same circuit as the water pump. Get up in the middle of the night to use the heads? Everyone is woken first by the sound of the water pump re-pressurising, and then by the sound of the macerator. Not to mention the usual issues with water and electrics, compounded by, uh, "bodily fluids"... :)