'Faith' gets a new composting head

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Craig,
sure I can see what you say.
But don't know if I can say what you see.
And a vertical dorade is a wonderful exercise in thinking out loud.

I called up Geoff Trott at Airhead again.
Probably because he was so accessible when I called last week.
He answered on his cell that he was in a meeting and to call back in two hours.
He called me! Two hours later.
I had a question about where the air comes from in the tank that we do all this bruhaha to vent?
My antique Airhead has two holes symmetrically placed in its quarters. Placing the compioster further up in the V-berth area cancels out their ability to take a hose.
I will have to drill a new hole further around the back for my vent.
It's certainly easy enough to poprivet the factory holes closed.
And that was my question..... Was the second hole left open intentionally?
It is.
And making a new hole for the vent hose is OK. But leave one hole open.

Second question for Geoff was..... length of vent hose
and whether the fan should pull the air or push the air out.
Airhead has actually tested this and finds the best location for the fan is at the end of the run,
where the system hose exits. Vents by pulling.

Now the third query..... I explained how difficult it was to find that exit in the Ariel.
Where would you put the cowl outside..... on the deck or the cabin?
Tried to explain Craig's internal vertical dorade idea to the inventor of the composter.
which I still think is an elegant solution!

So Geoff says,
you ready for this?
vent the damn composter into your chain locker.
That's what he has done on his own boat.

We all have, or should have a chain locker that is at least somewhat separate from the accommodation. right?
There's probably the old Pearson cowl vent still there or plastic one by now.
litlgull has the original foredeck vent hole glassed over because the skipper wants a pieplate vent in the Bomarhatch that is there now.
So mount the tiny fan in it's special ftting vertically on the chainlocker bulkhead!!!


There you go, vent the pooper into the forepeak.
which has or should have SOME ventilation going on.
That is enough to satisfy your compost system.
One less thru-hole in the ole girl.
What do you think?