Bucket and chuck it dangers

[pugwash]

Cold night up the Tamar the other week. Anchored in a quiet spot. Nobody else on board. Around 4am felt the urge to pee. Fully naked, crept shivering on deck and used the bucket in the cockpit. Chucked the bucket and contents over the side but realised too late I was standing on the end of its rope. Bucket was brought up short. Contents catapulted all over... Well, this is where it gets sordid so I'll say no more. Just thought I'd share it with you. At least there was no swimboaboard to die laughing.

 

[Birdseye]

I was once tied up to the pontoon in Newton Ferrers using the rubber duck to get to the pub for the fish and chips. We set off with me rowing one oar and SWMBO using the other. Just as we passed one of those horrible Legend thingies ( and I was making the usual comments) the person on board used the shower drain pump. Which having an outlet just below deck level, sprayed all over us. My wife immediately stopped rowing and squawked, so my attempts to row out of the spray were useless despite my shouts of "row the bl**dy boat woman".

Whats more, I suspect the person concerned had had a pee in the shower, dirty [no thanks]!

I got my own back on the return journey - I pushed the wine cork into his outlet.

 

[Peppermint]

Re: I usually

just throw mine into the dinghy. Funny the way stuff happens in the wee small hours.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Why do you go to all that trouble of putting it into a bucket which you then have to empty over the side and then rinse out?

Why not just simply hold on to the standing rigging and have a "p" over the side?

 

[Lakesailor]

You need to read the "Single handed peeing" thread

 

[catmandoo]

Well I dont know any scupper drain in the cockpit sole is just the right size to take my hoze pipe

 

[Vascojc]

This is a good reason to use the bucket and not the bog:
http://www.cix.co.uk/%7Eorinoco/ORINOCO/elsan.htm


I have now bought the boat but the 'Elsan' has gone!

 

[ChrisE]

Brings tears to your eyes, good story tho.

 

[Guest]

Elsan --- or Cruiser loo as it was called ...

My Snapdragon 23 had a Cruiser Loo installed forward ... a marine version of the Caravaners chemical loo. It was fine and never hurt anyone ... in fact it was clean and never used, never filled with water or 'blue' ....

Then one day when we had agreed that we would do a weeks sailing round the solent ... I decided that this machine should be prepared and set-up ..... I did exactly as the instructions said ... closed the valve etc. etc. locked it into its mount.

We left Havant quay and set off for our jaunt ..... few hours later noticed water in the cabin .... now a little while earlier one of the guys had lost his cap overboard and decided to gybe / hook his hat out of water pretty damn smartly !! He did it as well .... the gybe actually put us rail under and washed the windows ..... so I thought maybe one window leaked ..... the other guy went into cabin to find out where it came from .... put finger in water, tasted it and remarked .... "Strange tasting water - has a sort of oily feel to it and not salty at all .....UGH !!!!! Its the bog !!!!"

The Cruiser loo was emptied overside and never ever used again.