Nassau and then some....

Upon arriving in Nassau, we quickly cleaned the boat and headed to the hotel after meeting up with Sarah/Rob/Matthew/James who are joining us for the next leg of our journey.  We, once again, headed to the “rapid river” and enjoyed a couple of hours on the Atlantis property.

The next morning was filled with “not – so – fun” poop duty.  One of our heads (toilets) stopped working.  Dan bravely headed down into the engine room to figure out what had happened.  After making a couple of calls, he changed a fuse, heard the pump run again and hoped that the issue would be fixed.  I will repeat…hoped.

Kim/Revil/Wendy/Greg/Dan and I went to a Rum factor to do a quick tour, try some rum, have a morning Pina Colada, and then headed to lunch.

Upon our return, we realized the head wasn’t fixed, even though it was running.  No suction was coming through the system.  Dan headed down to check out the problem and to take apart the macerator pump.  Well…..”sh.. hit the fan”…literally, and Dan was elbow deep in whatever Greg had for dinner the night before.  Dan attempted to change some duck valves, but that didn’t resolve the issue.  I can tell you, Dan was borderline – disgusted, sick, nauseous, and appalled.

We went the pool that is right next to the boat for a couple of hours and waited for the “boat fixing guy” to come.  Apparently, the most common issue for boats in the Atlantis marina is head issues.  In other words, as he (actually I said and he agreed), the owners in this resort are full of sh….  Upon their investigation, they (Dan and the repair guy) requested the pump to be turned back on and all Wendy could hear on the headset that was connect to Dan was “….oh sh…..,” as the pump burst again while both of them were working on it and poop flew everywhere in the vicinity of the macerator.  Disgust then laughter was heard through the headset.  Anyway, the repair man checked out the issue and determined that the connection after the macerator and before the external out hole, was clogged.  Dan then jumped into the water, went to the bow of the boat and started plunging (like you would do for a clogged toilet) the side of the boat.

 

He finally was able to loosen the wad of toilet paper,that caused the pump to fail, with a coat hanger.  Once it was released, a plumb of poop, exited the boat and the Olympic swimmer Dan, bolted away.  I cannot describe to you how funny this whole situation was.  The laughter that continued, was non-stop.  Greg felt bad, Wendy was in laughter tears, I tried to contain my hysterics….and Dan is still nauseous as I write this entry the next morning.