theoldsalt
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A loo brush on a boat is the instrument of the devil. Recently acquired boat had two (one per heads). Ripped them out immediately and put them in the skip.
cleaning the bog is the skipper's job
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dylanwinter
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that was what I was afraid of
prv
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Why's that, then? And how else do you remove the skid-marks?
I have one from a caravan shop, smaller and comes with a bulkhead-mounted holder/pot. Obviously you wouldn't want the standard domestic free-standing item flying around loose.
Pete
johnphilip
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Due reverence
I think your crew should be educated properly and show due respect when facing the china shrine, gentlemen should kneel.
Seajet
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Actually gentlemen should sit too, if there are any waves acting on the boat.
Alan Villiers must be proud looking down on us, no more talk of overhauling topsail gaskets out on the yard in a gale, here we are discussing the finer points of boggery !
Alan Villiers must be proud looking down on us, no more talk of overhauling topsail gaskets out on the yard in a gale, here we are discussing the finer points of boggery !
mcframe
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(Late reply, based on recent web-find)
Here's what the Andrew say:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...hment_data/file/33699/20110816JDP0_10_BMD.pdf
318. Commanding Officer. Command embraces not only the responsibility for one of HM units, but the power to mould, or mar, the characters of a large body of individuals. It also carries with it a historic tradition of duty, dignity and privilege. In return, it makes immense demands on the commanding officers’ skill and endurance. Once appointed in command, commanding officers in the Royal Navy, regardless of rank, are known as the Captain – and the Captain is the ship. When the helicopter ditches, it is the captain’s helicopter; when a classified document is mislaid by a junior officer, it is still the captain’s document; it is the captain’s bilge that is oily and the captain’s equipment that is not tuned to peak performance; and when the submarine fails to hit the target, it is the captain’s torpedo that is wrong. The tradition by which a captain is called by the name of the ship sums up the practice and is crucial to the Royal Navy’s ethos. While this is very specific to commanding officers in the Royal Navy, the principal tenets of individual responsibility are nevertheless entirely applicable to the Royal Marines both at unit and higher command levels and indeed other military forces who work in the maritime environment.
The latest edition seems to have dropped the excellent notes of:
http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/jscsc/courses/RND/bmd/traf.pdf
WRT cleaning the heads, I'm also reminded of the Zen thing about the novice and master sweeping the temple; they are both doing the same thing, but for different reasons and achieve different results ;-)
TiggerToo
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and another +1 here