Safety straps in heads

[rotrax]

A fellow Island Packet owner and her husband are due to arrive at the Easter Island anchorage tomorrow.

During the passage from the Galapagos she has posted that a safety strap in front of the wash basin in the heads would allow a better and safer job to be made of even simple hand washing.

She has one for the cooker, but not in the heads.

Do the serious passagemakers use one?

 

[Daydream believer]

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[Concerto]

No, I do not have a strap in the loo but it is quite compact and you are always just inches from a vertical surface.

However, I have fitted 2 grab handles either side of the door, so when hard on the wind and healing, you can easily heave yourself off the loo.

 

[Poignard]

No, I do not have a strap in the loo but it is quite compact and you are always just inches from a vertical surface.

However, I have fitted 2 grab handles either side of the door, so when hard on the wind and healing, you can easily heave yourself off the loo.

A strap to hold the lid up can save a painful experience.

 

[Tradewinds]

What I've found with Lavacs in really heavy weather is that when you've got yourself seated you can do two or or three quick pumps and you're effectively 'glued down' on the throne by suction.

Very effective.

 

[Concerto]

What I've found with Lavacs in really heavy weather is that when you've got yourself seated you can do two or or three quick pumps and you're effectively 'glued down' on the throne by suction.

Very effective.

I presume you had eaten some beans to aid release.

 

[rotrax]

A strap to hold the lid up can save a painful experience.

Boasting again.....................................

 

[Graham376]

Boasting again.....................................

Or maybe he's a midget/dwarf/vertically challenged/ whatever word we're allowed to use these days for arse close to the ground.

 

[rotrax]

No, I do not have a strap in the loo but it is quite compact and you are always just inches from a vertical surface.

However, I have fitted 2 grab handles either side of the door, so when hard on the wind and healing, you can easily heave yourself off the loo.

The heads/shower on an Island Packet 380 - the model they have - is quite large. Not much to hold onto in a big sea.

She loved the heads /shower on our SP Cruiser. She demonstrated to First Mate how it was possible to wedge yourself on the loo by putting your feet against the below washbasin cupboard door.

I think there is some merit in her idea. I shall look at fixing a strap in our heads.

 

[Poignard]

Or maybe he's a midget/dwarf/vertically challenged/ whatever word we're allowed to use these days for arse close to the ground.

Or maybe I kneel down to have a piss to avoid falling over in rough weather.

 

[rotrax]

Or maybe he's a midget/dwarf/vertically challenged/ whatever word we're allowed to use these days for arse close to the ground.

No - thats me - most Speedway riders are shorthouses!

 

[Poignard]

 

[LittleSister]

The title of this thread led me to imagine something like a six-point racing harness to hold one in place on the seat!

 

[Laminar Flow]

A fellow Island Packet owner and her husband are due to arrive at the Easter Island anchorage tomorrow.

During the passage from the Galapagos she has posted that a safety strap in front of the wash basin in the heads would allow a better and safer job to be made of even simple hand washing.

She has one for the cooker, but not in the heads.

Do the serious passagemakers use one?

Never heard of a sea strap in the heads; just Island Packet owners boasting about their "over size" accommodations.
In our British sized heads I couldn't fall over if I tried and just getting your pants up is a feat that would have made Houdini proud.
I also doubt my quarter deck has enough excess material to effect a successful seal on the Lavac.

Regardless, IPs are better sailed flat and with little heel, what with their wide beam and shallow draft, not to mention the possible dangers using their expansive sanitary installations, while trying to touch up the eye liner.

By the by, how is your new drifter working out, Rotrax?

 

[penfold]

What I've found with Lavacs in really heavy weather is that when you've got yourself seated you can do two or or three quick pumps and you're effectively 'glued down' on the throne by suction.

Very effective.

Requires a fairly impressive rear end to achieve that shirley? The attendant risk of inducing a prolapse ought to dissuade people from trying this one at home.

 

[rotrax]

Never heard of a sea strap in the heads; just Island Packet owners boasting about their "over size" accommodations.
In our British sized heads I couldn't fall over if I tried and just getting your pants up is a feat that would have made Houdini proud.
I also doubt my quarter deck has enough excess material to effect a successful seal on the Lavac.

Regardless, IPs are better sailed flat and with little heel, what with their wide beam and shallow draft, not to mention the possible dangers using their expansive sanitary installations, while trying to touch up the eye liner.

By the by, how is your new drifter working out, Rotrax?

All going well. New sail has been hoisted, sheets, blocks, clutches and modified angled turning block installed. and all working alongside.

The test of course, will be at sea. It is bloody big! 175%!

The guy's who installed the Hoyt boom in the UK IN 2008 took no precautions against galvanic corrosion. It blew up around the S/S - alloy interface and lifted the finish. This is now at the blasters where the OE powdercoat will be removed and it will be zinc chromate primed and painted with two pack epoxy in bright silver.

Some new running rigging plus some to be reused after being washed will be refitted when it is re-installed.

We shall come out for antifoul in March/April and hope to be off to Ireland again next season leaving mid to late May.

Hope you guy's are well, might see you on the water next season?

 

[Laminar Flow]

All going well. New sail has been hoisted, sheets, blocks, clutches and modified angled turning block installed. and all working alongside.

The test of course, will be at sea. It is bloody big! 175%!

The guy's who installed the Hoyt boom in the UK IN 2008 took no precautions against galvanic corrosion. It blew up around the S/S - alloy interface and lifted the finish. This is now at the blasters where the OE powdercoat will be removed and it will be zinc chromate primed and painted with two pack epoxy in bright silver.

Some new running rigging plus some to be reused after being washed will be refitted when it is re-installed.

We shall come out for antifoul in March/April and hope to be off to Ireland again next season leaving mid to late May.

Hope you guy's are well, might see you on the water next season?

All well here. Looking forward to you showing us the improvement in person.

Covid permitting, we want to go up to Ireland, Western Scotland and the Shetlands next season. My Admiral, having grown a stout set of sea legs is even talking about the Faroe and Norway.

Best to you and first Mate.

 

[thinwater]

Requires a fairly impressive rear end to achieve that shirley? The attendant risk of inducing a prolapse ought to dissuade people from trying this one at home.

What I've found with Lavacs in really heavy weather is that when you've got yourself seated you can do two or or three quick pumps and you're effectively 'glued down' on the throne by suction.

Very effective.

I'm hoping this was all in jest, but...

... There have been case of serious injury caused by vacuum in airplane toilets (prolapsed uterus and intestine distortions). Not a joking matter if it happens. I would not believe it if was not someone I knew well.

 

[Tradewinds]

Just pulling a chain

 

[johnalison]

Just pulling a chain

Did you get that from Force 4?