Forty year old Contessa 32, £200,000

[awol]

Are the heads (where you pee and worse) still 16" from the heads of the people sleeping in the forward cabin?

Classic!!

You poor delicate soul! As I used to remind Tranona before he huffed off, the YM head-to-head comparison between a Bav 33 and a CO32 had the CO32 ahead in almost everything except the toilet arrangements. Personally, I use my boat for sailing, rather than as a mobile loo. Anyway, what's wrong with peeing over the side?

 

[Just_sayin']

Anyway, what's wrong with peeing over the side?

Well apart from the danger and potential illegality I'm sure it's quite normal.

Let me just check with my wife and daughter, I'm sure they'll be fine with it.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

You poor delicate soul! As I used to remind Tranona before he huffed off, the YM head-to-head comparison between a Bav 33 and a CO32 had the CO32 ahead in almost everything except the toilet arrangements. Personally, I use my boat for sailing, rather than as a mobile loo. Anyway, what's wrong with peeing over the side?

1. You can fall in.

2. The wind can splash it back onto you, especially f you pee to the windward. LOL

On KATE (1908 America's cup gaffed rigged 12 Metre) while under way, we would go to the shrouds on the leeward side, position ourself so that there was a shroud inboard of each shoulder, then wrap our arms around the shrouds, the left hand reaching round and holding on to the right shroud and the right hand helping facilitate the task at hand.
The list of KATE while under way did help.

 

[eddystone]

Well apart from the danger and potential illegality I'm sure it's quite normal.

Let me just check with my wife and daughter, I'm sure they'll be fine with it.

Illegality!?

 

[Just_sayin']

Illegality!?

So getting your todger out and urinating in a public place is acceptable to you is it?

This isn't France you know ?

 

[Poignard]

I use a plastic funnel down a cockpit drain. Discreet, hygienic and you can carry on steering while you're doing it.

 

[JumbleDuck]

What planet is he on?

Nine years ago (says Google) a brand new C32 from Jeremy Rogers cost £149,000.

 

[johnalison]

Nine years ago (says Google) a brand new C32 from Jeremy Rogers cost £149,000.

Which makes £200,000 sound about right, but as I understand it, compensation means putting you back to the position you were before the accident. If the yachtsman ends up with a brand new boat, he has gained from the exercise, which is not the intention. Certainly, with the commoner car write-off, the owner almost always loses out. A juster solution might be a second-hand C32, professionally refurbished to better than average condition.

 

[awol]

Which makes £200,000 sound about right, but as I understand it, compensation means putting you back to the position you were before the accident. If the yachtsman ends up with a brand new boat, he has gained from the exercise, which is not the intention. Certainly, with the commoner car write-off, the owner almost always loses out. A juster solution might be a second-hand C32, professionally refurbished to better than average condition.

Sadly, unless the owner tells tales we will never know. At least he seems satisfied with the outcome.

 

[Daydream believer]

What about the legal percentage of that cost. Possibly up to 20%

 

[JumbleDuck]

Let me just check with my wife and daughter, I'm sure they'll be fine with it.

I used to sail with a female friend who would answer nature's call by dropping everything below the waist and then reclining into the pulpit, facing aft, her legs straddling the forestay. Since we were not that sort of friends, I would carefully avert my eyes.

 

[newtothis]

I used to sail with a female friend who would answer nature's call by dropping everything below the waist and then reclining into the pushpit, facing aft, her legs straddling the forestay. Since we were not that sort of friends, I would carefully avert my eyes.

Which is why I will never buy a boat with a forestay anywhere near the pushpit.

 

[Daydream believer]

I use a plastic funnel down a cockpit drain. Discreet, hygienic and you can carry on steering while you're doing it.

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Surely you need the funnel bit both ends

 

[eddystone]

So getting your todger out and urinating in a public place is acceptable to you is it?

This isn't France you know ?

Well off the back of a small boat in open water without anyone looking would seem rather more discrete than the urinals in most French “aires” which I confess I am too prudish to use.
Still enough of this - time to stick some primer on the keel before it rains

 

[JumbleDuck]

Which is why I will never buy a boat with a forestay anywhere near the pushpit.

Good point. Fixed. Since my current boat has a rear pushpit and single backstay, being pointy at both ends, the same trick would work facing forwards, though it might make a mess of the wind vane.

 

[Daydream believer]

I used to sail with a female friend who would answer nature's call by dropping everything below the waist and then reclining into the pushpit, facing aft, her legs straddling the forestay. Since we were not that sort of friends, I would carefully avert my eyes.

So you are you the bloke with the go pro mounted on a stick aft?

Good point. Fixed. Since my current boat has a rear pushpit and single backstay, being pointy at both ends, the same trick would work facing forwards, though it might make a mess of the wind vane.

Beware of elderly gents with go pros mounted on brackets out the stern " to film the cockpit "