Sans Bateau
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The state the toilets are left in in the morning at marinas is discusting. Do people leave their own toilets at home with the same evidence of their visit?
Marina toilets, a moan.
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colhel
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Completely agree, I have thought about starting a thread on this myself.
Seajet
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+1, and it's not just the ' obvious ', what gets me is torn off unused bits of loo paper, paper towels if present, that sort of thing just let drop on the floor; and I'm thinking of clubs & marinas where people must be what one would otherwise call ' civilised and well brought up '.
It shows a total arrogance and lack of consideration for others, ' they'll be paying someone to clean up after me - eventually - and sod everyone else in the meantime '.
It shows a total arrogance and lack of consideration for others, ' they'll be paying someone to clean up after me - eventually - and sod everyone else in the meantime '.
l'escargot
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We tend not to use the marina facilities in the mornings for that reason, using the ones on the boat instead. Then use the marina facilities on arrival somewhere which are usually nice and clean in the afternoon.
elton
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For this reason, I schedule my morning ablutions to immediately follow the cleaner.
No doubt some of those responsible for filthy toilets are reading this. Would they care to explain why they leave the disgusting filth and mess?
No doubt some of those responsible for filthy toilets are reading this. Would they care to explain why they leave the disgusting filth and mess?
laika
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Out of interest, what's Premier Gosport like since the relocation of the clipper fleet?
Supershape56
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Totally agree, every morning over a weekend, each trap resembles the starting grid at Silverstone. Portland Marina is particularly bad of a weekend when "nervous divers" join the grid
ChattingLil
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It's the selfish visitors who don't care. We are liveaboards in a marina and normally our toilets/showers are fine (when used by the people who use them day-in-day-out). But crikey you know it when it's holiday season and the marina has visitors. Absolutely disgusting.
RichardTaylor
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No problems that I have seen, although we havent seen many Clipper bods around - I guess when training starts for next year's race things might change.
RupertW
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We tend to use the heads on the boat and shower there too then empty the holding tanks when we eventually get to sea.
The only time the marina facilities get used is on the last day on the boat after we've tied up before going home. Almost never use loos or showers when visiting other marinas.
The only time the marina facilities get used is on the last day on the boat after we've tied up before going home. Almost never use loos or showers when visiting other marinas.
xyachtdave
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Yes the facilities on our boat usually better than the shoreside.
A proper pump out deck fitting rather than hand pump to sea on the list of things to do this winter.
EU_Cruiser
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Interesting. The dutch marina toilets and shower facilities were generally 'spotless' to 'very clean' depending on the time of day and season.
dylanwinter
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I always clean up behind me but seven years at boarding school teach you to tolerate other people's filth
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Its just the same at our marina in Plymouth. At this time of the year I find myself longing for the 1st October and for normality to return. I feel for the cleaners; the facilities are spotless for nine months of the year but they fight a losing battle in the summer. It is bizarre though, we all come on here and moan about the culprits but who are they? Everyone hereabouts seems to have the same motivation for decency toward others, the baddies must be somewhere? One wonders whether the filthy folk leave their facilities at home in the same state?
AuntyRinum
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We do the same. They always look as though animals have been using them first thing in the morning.
RupertW
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We have what I assume are pump out deck fittings but without pump out stations would never use them. We simply open the outlet seacock to drain the holding tanks. Are yours below sea level?
Steve Clayton
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Caught a couple of the Clipper fleet shagging on the pontoon when they were in Royal Clarence. Didn't know we were aboard - never seen anybody move so fast when we put the deck lights on and then hit them with 2,000 watt candlepower light! I'd like to think that we got them maybe 10 to 15 seconds before the vinegar stroke.
The mess that the Clipper fleet left up in the ablutions was horrific; sh 1 te in the showers etc. Good riddance to bad rubbish says I
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nicho
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I think at weekends, it's often ( but I guess not always) kids that leave them in such a state.
prv
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Our main facilities are a fairly basic and somewhat run-down portacabin. They've always been reasonably clean when I've been in there, but apparently this is sometimes not the case. The management recently built a pair of new individual bathrooms in an adjacent building, but were worried that whoever was leaving the main loos in a mess would do the same there. Their solution to this has been to use a key rather than a combination, and be very selective about who they give a copy to. Everyone else has to borrow the key from the office, and hence the perpetrator will be known! (or at least narrowed down to a very few people).
Pete
Pete
prv
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I think you may well be right. From a child or teenager's point of view, toilets are self-cleaning.
On Stavros, each of the three watches took turns to clean the heads. It was very noticeable on youth voyages how the voyage-crew loos were disgusting on the first morning, slightly better on the second, better yet on the third and not usually a problem thereafter. After having to clean a toilet for usually the first time in their lives, being mostly reasonable people they were more considerate towards whoever's turn it was next. But up to that point they had probably never really thought about it, and not worried about what they left behind.
Pete
