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Welcome, and good luck with your new to you old boat.

As Alex and Steve said that was added by a PO for any number of reasons. Do you have an electric or a manual/pump head/toilet? I ask because it looks like there is a small hole in the bulkhead behind where the head/toilet mounts, but too pixelated to tell when I zoom in. If it is a hole, it could be where the wires from the switch exited to connect to the head/toilet.

A photo of the button you're talking about would be helpful. Do you have a manual toilet?

Pretty sure the only OEM switch/button in the 1987 head is the switch below the head sink for the shower pump. What are you calling the main wall in the head?

As several have said, the leaks are most likely coming from the fasteners or the stantion base. Remove them all, clean the fasteners, bottom of stantion base, and deck thoroughly with acetone. Fix anything bent. Apply bed-it-butyl tape per Marine How To website. Install backing plates on all stantion bases. Catalina Direct sells them for around $12.60 each. I also put backing plates on the pushpit, pulpit, and gate bases. I changed vent hoses and clamps, but the vent runs are unchanged. Did this 8 years ago, I have zero leaks.

Do you have overrides with the furler drum line or is it just stiff?

There are no baffles in the tank. As the water level in the tank lowers, the water can get pretty noisy as it sloshes around. It can happen while sailing also.

The hotspot is from the incandescent light bulb originally installed by the factory to light up the gauge. Some of us have replaced the incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs.

or broken blade bits in the HX itself. Finally got around to removing some from mine yesterday.

There are two engine hoses connected to the water heater. One goes to the water heater, and the other is the return from the water heater. They are coolant hoses not water hoses.

You can lower it, but be careful you don't drill through the hull which is the back of the locker.

The manual bilge pump uses a 1.5" white corrugated hose. Is your bilge pump attached to it, or a different white hose? A photo of the bilge pump's and hose's would help give better answers.

They probably ran it thru the locker because there's no limber hole under the floor connecting the v-berth to the salon/main cabin on a 1987.

The two white rods act as a spring to hold up the boom. When you tighten the vang, the shoe connected to the rods will slide slightly in the foot on the boom allowing the rods to bend. As you ease off the vang, the rods will relax or spring back and support the boom.

Normally the rods have a slight curve from the mast to the slide foot on the boom. In the photo yours appears straight. I would check that the rods bend properly by pulling down on the boom.

Does that help?

You have a boom kicker and boom vang. The boom kicker puts an upward force on the boom so the topping lift is not needed. I keep my topping lift tied to the backstay in case something happens to my boom kicker. You need the vang to pull the boom down when sailing to improve/adjust sail shape.

In your post asking about a wrench, the photo shows the seacock is closed. Did you turn the handle 90 degrees to the open position?