Those who have used the head in a Tartan 30 can appreciate this challenge.  If you are standing with your pants down around your ankles I defy you to pull them up without sitting down again, unless you open the door.  Yes, the head (ship’s bathroom to landlubbers) is that small.  To make matters worse, access to the engine water intake valve, the toilet intake valve and the toilet discharge seacock are all accessed from the head but are not actually in the head.  The frustrating part about that is that you cannot see any of those valves; you reach through openings and feel for them.  Fixing this situation was very high on my list. 

The head, in the condition we got the boat, was in pretty tough shape.  It smelled.  Everything that was white had turned to a blotchy yellow/brown.  There were several holes where both I and the PO had moved hoses.  It was time to tear everything out and start over.  So I removed the door, the wall that the door was hung on, the toilet, the sink, the hoses, the cabinet face, the access doors, the counter trim and top laminate, and the fiberglass shell that enclosed the engine vent shaft.  I also removed the head-discharge seacock, the toilet intake ball valve, the engine raw-water ball valve, the engine exhaust hose, and the water pressure pump.  At least now I had room to work.