Head AKA Bathroom

This is a crucial compartment for wellbeing onboard.
It should be big enough to take a shower confortably, but not too big to be useless in navigation.
Always a lot of constraints, toilet facing forward or backward not transversally, level of the floor for discharge, black and grey water tanks.....

So at the end we settled for a Lavac toilet, a 60 liters black water tank with the lavac going directly to the tank. In such a way we can decide when to discharge at sea or when to hold it. A deck opening will allow emptying from the quay.

A lot of thinking was on making or not a sea chest. At the end I choose not to have one. The reason is that the advantage of a concentrated sea water inlet is counterbalanced by the extralength of the pipes. As long pipes with stagnant sea water are always a problem I decided to have the water intake as close as possible to the point of use. So there will be three: one for the toilet, one for the engine and one for the galley and watermaker. The outlets will be two, one for black and grey water and one for galley and watermaker.
So a compromise as always.
By the way the sea chest, as reported by people that have it, is a good cage for growing crabs!

 Step number one: the Bulkheads

Here you can see the one separating the head compartment from the sail locker

After placing it I started framing the floor supports. The longitudinals are for the SB and PO cabinets. As a principle I decided that the cabinetry will be parallel to the centerline and not follow the curves of the hull. This is a more modern approach compared to the classic one. I know that probably it will not be always possible but I will try.

The transversal frames define the shower pan and the raised level for the Lavac toilet

We then cut the plywood from the templates

We continued with the differen BH and placed them

Now it starts looking good! On the right you see the template for the sink cabinet. The top will be in Corian.

Now it is the time of the black water tank

On the left of the tank will be a cabinet with a seat for the shower

And this is the final version. The openings for the cabinets left, below and above the sink will be done in the shop.Over the sink will be a mirror with a small space behind and the fast gas water heater form Rennai (only 13cm  thickness).