Wansworth
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Newbie here,one question should I hove too before using the shower room,thanks
Walk in showers
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Stemar
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In conditions like Saturday's RTI, it wouldn't make a lot of difference. Far better to just go on the fore deck for a cool, bracing salt water shower.
Wansworth
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Thanks,been a worry,thinking of conditions off Cape Horn….
Neeves
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If its a bit choppy just sit on the seat(s), no need to hove to.
A decent hot shower does wonders for enthusiasm on a boisterous, chilly day - even better if followed by a pot of fresh and steaming coffee (the real stuff - not Nescafe)
Jonathan
A decent hot shower does wonders for enthusiasm on a boisterous, chilly day - even better if followed by a pot of fresh and steaming coffee (the real stuff - not Nescafe)
Jonathan
Wansworth
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Not something our predecessors had the pleasure of…….one of the high lites of a cruise Isa proper shower at the end of the cruise
Fr J Hackett
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And that my friend is why manky old wooden boats from yesteryear should stay there.
Wansworth
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I think even if I had a shower onboard I would use shore facilities,I did once have a boat with a shower but seemed a bit of a faff
Fr J Hackett
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The shore is a long way away when you are several days out and hot, sticky and smelly
capnsensible
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Wansworth
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The English traditionally don’t wash as much as continentals….
Minerva
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So which one of your day dream boats has the problem of a shower Wandsy?
FWIW, I love our shower on board. Only problem is the size of our water tanks onboard. Next boat I'm looking for is to be around 40-45ft and have a number of tanks so weekend sailing we can have a couple of hundred litres on board but when we go for our 3 week cruise we can depart with a tonne of the stuff on board. Shower every day / second day would be glorious.
FWIW, I love our shower on board. Only problem is the size of our water tanks onboard. Next boat I'm looking for is to be around 40-45ft and have a number of tanks so weekend sailing we can have a couple of hundred litres on board but when we go for our 3 week cruise we can depart with a tonne of the stuff on board. Shower every day / second day would be glorious.
johnalison
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A shower on board is very tempting when it costs a euro to have one ashore in manky cubicles with wet floors. I think that if having a shower when under way it is possibly good seamanship to ask one of the family ever so politely to leave their play screens and actually go into the cockpit to keep watch. Heaving-to would just confuse them, so it is better just to stick to autopilot on and take in a reef.
Sandy
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Goodness no. Just strip and stand on the foredeck in a F6.
john_morris_uk
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Or do what we did and fit a watermaker. We almost never use the shore facilities shower. It’s such a faff to walk up the pontoon washbag and clothing and towel in hand when there’s two showers available even on our little boat.
Chiara’s slave
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Sail a Dragonfly. The lee outrigger is like being jetwashed in anything 15kn or more
Fr J Hackett
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Enema optional?
Chiara’s slave
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Don’t face aft.
Minerva
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Saves on toilet paper at least!
Chiara’s slave
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If you prefer your rear end washing to be more like a bidet, you could sit on the lee trampoline. Waist deep froth comes up through that. Though sometimes something bigger, greener and wetter, just to surprise you. It surprised the hell out of me on Monday, when retrieving the kite. Mrs C and a friend were perfectly dry in the cockpit about 2m from me. That must be why she likes to steer.
