THE most horrible job on a boat...

[Ripster]

As has been said there are many horrible jobs and the heads come up the top of the list. The one that stands out for me at the moment was removing a heads skin fitting that was pushed right into a corner and continuously skinning my knuckles on sharp GRP and having to continue until it was unscrewed - painful or what

 

[SHUG]

Toilets seem to feature quite highly in the list....for good reason.
Old boat with Baby Blake. Guest pops in for a No2. Doesn't open the outlet valve and pumps furiously to discharge the contents of the toilet. BANG!!! The outlet hose comes off the fitting and sprays the contents explosively over all surfaces of the heads. Replacing the hose was the least of it so don't give me your troubles matetey!!!

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

Toilets seem to feature quite highly in the list....for good reason.
Old boat with Baby Blake. Guest pops in for a No2. Doesn't open the outlet valve and pumps furiously to discharge the contents of the toilet. BANG!!! The outlet hose comes off the fitting and sprays the contents explosively over all surfaces of the heads. Replacing the hose was the least of it so don't give me your troubles matetey!!!

One thing I noticed last year when putting a new toilet in my old boat, was that good quality Vetus pipe was well worth the extra cost.
It was so easy to get stretched over the connections even in cooler weather and accepted the jubilee type clips easily and so sealed well.

I had previously tried to do the job with cheap stuff from a chandlers and all the heating and lubrication in the world failed to get the pipes on to my satisfaction

 

[billcowan]

Funny thing about sailing boats is you always end up covered in ****e or deisel or both

 

[Kilter]

Fixing a broken head in the tropics is up there but at least that's brief whereas longboarding....

 

[rogerthebodger]

Non of the jobs quoted so far is IMHO as bad as grit blasting the inside of a steel my boat before painting.

The next was grit blasting the outside of my boat.

 

[ffiill]

Laying up has to be the most horrible of jobs, so don't do it, stay in commission!

Actually recomissioning is far harder if your boat has been out several seasons-reconnecting VHF;bringing mast light plugs back to cleanliness;getting the engine to run properly etc etc.;remembering how to lay the halliards in right place against mast before putting it up;threading the pulley blocks properly on the boom etc
All this to do and remember(probably not)before the spring.
Sticking a fresh coat of antifoul on by comparison is easy.
Worst job I remember was trying to antifoul in Rothesay Inner harbour between tides-lying on a far from dry bit of plywood sheet floating on about 18 inches of gooey mud watching crabs coming out to eye me up nose to nose!

 

[ffiill]

Toilets-no problem if you live with a septic tank at home!-particularly if like mine you can actually go down into it if there is a problem.Fingers crossed mine has been well behaved in recent years-a voyage not to be reccomended.

 

[Cariadco]

The best, so far....

Toilets seem to feature quite highly in the list....for good reason.
Old boat with Baby Blake. Guest pops in for a No2. Doesn't open the outlet valve and pumps furiously to discharge the contents of the toilet. BANG!!! The outlet hose comes off the fitting and sprays the contents explosively over all surfaces of the heads. Replacing the hose was the least of it so don't give me your troubles matetey!!!

Brillaint...!

 

[SHUG]

Its called "GETTING YOUR OWN BACK!"

 

[Liz_I]

Although cleaning the hoses in the heads compartments (2) has to go down as the least pleasant job.
My particular No.1 would have to be cleaning the whole saloon & galley incl. light fittings and under the cabin sole. Plus everything under the 'floor', oh and inside cupboards! and of course the headlining The reason, whilst making chicken stock the pressure release valve on the pressure cooker gave up. Luckily no-one was scalded but I am not going to try that one again!!!!