A Crappy Happy Hour

2 beers and a crappy happy hour later, we discovered something wasn't right in the bathroom. As luck would have it, we discovered that the seal along the bottom of the toilet had worn away and started to leak into the hull. This is an older designed toilet from 1987 that is in three parts. There's the throne itself, which is bolted to a small holding tank and the underside of the tank is caulked around the edge of what looks like a removable pan. We have no idea why you would ever want to remove this, but you can. The tank is then hooked to a hose which is hooked to a pump that when switched on removes the contents from the small tank to the larger (main) septic tank in the bottom of the hull until it is time to take it to the gas dock and pumped out. We found a marine caulk that is called, 5200 Adhesive Marine Caulk, this is designed for permanent adhesion under water and anywhere else that you don't want to come apart. It goes without saying, houseboating is full of fun and adventure but also can have some unpleasant surprises.