Cruising rules question - p*ssing to windward

[Searush]

Don't do it, you will get your own back.

 

[sailorman]

Don't do it, you will get your own back.

check-out your wanted

 

[SHUG]

Hence the nautical phrase " You are making as much sense as p*ssing to windward"

 

[Whiskey Bravo]

Listen to Neil Young's Ambulance Blues [I think, if I remember rightly without putting it on] for the reference. Mind you, he is singing about music journalists/critics.

 

[BelleSerene]

Don't do it, you will get your own back.

More likely get your own front, unless you adopt a strange position to do it?

 

[Crabman]

Its illegal to dump anything over the side .

 

[Conachair]

Don't do it, you will get your own back.

Is anyone here actually too poor to have a pot to p!ss in?

What's your favorite?

Or is this just a singlehander thing.....

 

[johnphilip]

Classic version

Seen many years ago in Amsterdam, I recognised enough latin words to be pretty surprised at reading "Homo Sapiens non urinat in ventum " carved into this impressive portico.

 

[davidej]

Confucius he say

"Man who pisses into wind get very wet trousers""

also

"Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day"

 

[bbg]

No need to do it to windward. Surely just go straight into the cockpit, unless I've misunderstood the origin of the word all these years?

 

[onesea]

Don't do it, you will get your own back.

Make sure your sailing with a friend you trust, or sum bugger might just turn the boat round

Oh and I have another friend who will wait till they consider I cannot tack before they go to the heads

 

[LadyInBed]

one solution

 

[onesea]

"one solution"

Works fine for me but then that's why she does not to tack at oportune moments, not that she cannot just that it does not have the same effect

I can remember as a child the first time we tacked the new (to us) bigger boat with the toilet to one side (not midships), whilst mum was below.
Lets just say she was not impressed ...

 

[prv]

Wasn't there some guy who went to use the heads single-handed, the boat tacked for some reason (wind shift? self-steering failure?) and the changing forces flexed the hull enough to jam the door shut on him?

Pete

 

[Conachair]

Wasn't there some guy who went to use the heads single-handed, the boat tacked for some reason (wind shift? self-steering failure?) and the changing forces flexed the hull enough to jam the door shut on him?

Pete

Been there!

Solo off the coast of somewhere, a plate covering where the wires come down from the mast slipped down enough to stop the heads door from opening. With me on the inside In open water with no traffic so no rush, managed to squeeze my hand through with some studding to push the plate back up eventually.

 

[VicS]

one solution

Hey that was my diagram originally

 

[LadyInBed]

Hey that was my diagram originally

I well remember it, but you missed out the connector

 

[Leighb]

All reasons why SWMBO insists that all P***ing takes place sitting down on our boat, if you don't you have to clean the heads.

 

[MoodySabre]