Passage peeing

Gary Fox

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How precious can you get? If someone messes up the heads it only takes a few seconds with the shower hose to flush it away.
Really? It makes the boat smell of stale piss for the duration of the trip, you may be ok with that or even enjoy it, each to their own. My yacht doesn't have a shower and the heads is complicated to clean, with any spillage going in the bilges.
Men sit down to urinate, end of story.
 

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Really? It makes the boat smell of stale piss for the duration of the trip, you may be ok with that or even enjoy it, each to their own. My yacht doesn't have a shower and the heads is complicated to clean, with any spillage going in the bilges.
Men sit down to urinate, end of story.
I can't say thay it is something that has ever happened on any of my boats, in nearly fifty years of sailing with assorted guests. Maybe I subconsciously choose my friends for their marksmanship, or I have just been lucky. In any case, the point I was making was that there is no one rule that can be applied to all boats and all crews.
 

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This is definitely the way forward having just done several night passages this has made a world of difference and no need to fumble around for a light while trying not to bounce off the bulkhead and the real bonus a good target to aim forView attachment 117732
This reminds me of the first time I witnessed sea luminescence. It was flushing the loo in Helford River at night: the pan lit up! It was an amazing sight to someone who had never seen it before.
(on my honeymoon)

Obviously, that is no use to help you target the pan, as it happens post hoc, as they say.
 

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Really? It makes the boat smell of stale piss for the duration of the trip, you may be ok with that or even enjoy it, each to their own. My yacht doesn't have a shower and the heads is complicated to clean, with any spillage going in the bilges.
Men sit down to urinate, end of story.
If you are in the habit of watching to make sure your rule is enforced, be sure not to inadvertantly bring the practice ashore...?
 

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Standing is verboten☠
How precious can you get? If someone messes up the heads it only takes a few seconds with the shower hose to flush it away.

Here's a scenario to put the male "need" to stand up into perspective:
Just as you're taking careful aim, an unexpected gust of wind takes those on watch by surprise, resulting in a crash gybe and the occupant of the head head-butting a hard edge. Come change of watch or the next person's need for the head (whichever happens sooner) occupant is found unconscious and piss soaked. Of course, the incident has to be noted in the ship's log, and retold (in fine detail) at every opportunity.
 

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Yes HissyFit it's a good point;

For starters, one hand is needed to hold on.

If you are wearing oilskins, lifejacket, HBC and the usual clobber, it all needs unzipping, unbuttoning, pulling down and holding clear of the impending golden stream. That's two hands.

The heads lid and seat probably need holding up. Another hand required.

The organ in question needs a firm but accurate grip. Four hands so far, or is it five?

Remind me again: why is someone insisting that standing up is a good idea?
 

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[...]

Remind me again: why is someone insisting that standing up is a good idea?
Aw shucks honey! Real men don't sit down to piss! (unless, perhaps, they are transitioning :eek:)

On my boat the bog stands on a small plinth a few inches high, upon which I can kneel whilst poking Percy at the plumbing. The only danger is of the boat making a sudden lurch to port, causing the bog lid to come crashing down with catastrophic consequences.
 

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For starters, one hand is needed to hold on.

To what?

The organ in question needs a firm but accurate grip.

Oh, I see. My toilet compartment is sufficiently small and I am sufficiently large that I can easily wedge myself in while standing. Unless the boat's motion is violent, peeing down into the bowl is easy. However, for night watches and other times without company I keep a bailer in the cockpit.
 

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Yes HissyFit it's a good point;

For starters, one hand is needed to hold on.

If you are wearing oilskins, lifejacket, HBC and the usual clobber, it all needs unzipping, unbuttoning, pulling down and holding clear of the impending golden stream. That's two hands.

The heads lid and seat probably need holding up. Another hand required.

The organ in question needs a firm but accurate grip. Four hands so far, or is it five?

Remind me again: why is someone insisting that standing up is a good idea?
I quite agree. In rolling seas the Navigator gets nervous if I go below for too long, and if on sole watch so do I. So faster is better. Further, our Jabsco small size bowl is excellent for bums but not for mens dangly bits, even mine. Better however than our aquavac on earlier boat that left bowl full of water after use, and choked if you tried not to leave it full. Inadvertent douche if sitting down on port tack if any waves, though that tack better for standing. Navigator, who must sit, has delayed at times till tack was optimum or waves abaited.

Cleaning our heads with bucket of seawater is fairly simple, and yes it does need doing as a matter of "housekeeping"
 

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