Single handed peeing.

Cut the neck off a plastic pop bottle. I have a couple kicking about the cockpit most times for singlehanded trips... just chuck them in the rubbish bin after emptying over the side.
An alternative: the wheelhouse of a trawler I used to dive from has a funnel stuffed into a pipe that went through the coaming. It was fine for the helm when he could't go below but not nice if anyone put their kit in the wrong place on deck.
 
Actually an innertube from a bicycle cut accross is the best option...it has stretch to accommodate even well endowed people like me. The other end is insterted in the cockpit drain. There is no need to detach from the business end. The tube can be worn under your trousers even when going ashore.

If you find that the tube diameter is too large for your dik use a hose clamp or alternatly a cable tie to allow a snug watertight fit.
 
Re: If you really want to know ....

The web police of my employer organisation won't allow me to access that site !

I wonder why ?
 
You've got a bucket haven't you? and the cockpit has drains.

You should be able to work something out whilst mainataining your modesty
 
I use a plastic bed bottle, bought in the chemists. It has a lid, so you can use it in the cabin or in the cockpit, and close the lid until you have a chance to empty it discreetly. As the lid is watertight, it doesn't matter if it falls over.

I regard this as one of the major pieces of safety kit aboard, as it cuts out peeing over the transom.
 
I quite agree about the dangers of peeing over the side. An earlier reply mentioned US coastguard statistics..... some years ago I think they even had a designation for casualties recovered from the sea with their flies undone.

At the time, I think it was the habit of standing on the lee side trying to hold onto the shrouds whilst peeing that was causing people to go over the side.

Luckily for me, I can stand in the cockpit well, and have a chain attached across the pushpit above waist level.....

Obviously, or maybe not, whether or not to pee over the transom is dictated by the weather and sea state. If it's that bad, heaving to is the answer, and nipping below to the heads whilst bobbing along gently.......

Interesting to read some of the replies here...... some jocular, some serious.

It is really a serious subject..... often we hear of yachts washed ashore with no-one aboard.... no doubt some people here will have known the people involved..... and wondered what happened.
 
In the old days, when at sports matches and not convenient to leave the crowd when staanding on the embankment, it was common to have an invention based on a bicycle tube which was cut across to make an elongated pipe which when suitably attached to the appropriate part of the anatomy with a shoelace on the belt and threaded down the inside of the trouser leg was about the right length to exit just below the trouser cuff. If one was wearing wellies then the process was to remove the tube from inside of ones own wellie and "splash ones boots", so to speak. Mind you, if a little inebriated, then a wonderful prank was to first insert the tube in the top of someone else's wellie.

Nowadays, with a little inventiveness and modern materials the some sort of patent device could be invented which would be an improvement on the bicycle tube. Possibly called P in a PP.

Make a pee in a public place [P in a PP] a discrete operation. [Sorry ladies, this is a gender sensitive apparatus]
 
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This reminds me of a story that I was told by on old guy I used to work with when I was but a yoof i.e a long time ago !

He said that when he was a lad, all the ladies then wore long skirts down to the ground, and nothing underneath. When they needed to "go", they simply stood over a drain at the side of the road and let go ! !

Another chap I worked with in the same place had been in Bomber Command during the war, and Lancasters were fitted with a "Pilot relief tube", which was simply a funnel & a hose leading to the bottom of the aircraft. So not only did they drop a load of bombs on the germans, they p1ssed on them as well ! !
 
Re: Change from coffee to whisky

Paper bag and over the side works for me.
Several advantages over a bucket
While bouncing around at 25knts the bucket was empty well before I made it to the marina.
If you hit a wave at the wrong time the bucket could trap things.
(Paper bag is water tight for long enough, I carry several small plastic food bags for longer single handed trips 100nm+ in case the bags get wet before use) /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Re: Change from coffee to whisky

1.buy a watering can rose to fit your willie
2.grow tomatoes in the cockpit - they can be watered anytime
3.learn to smile whilst having a pee in close company with other yachts
 
Re: Change from coffee to whisky

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"Flashing sailor arrested in garden centre"
 
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