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I typically keep one of these in the cockpit, when on watch alone. Going below is not always a good idea, nor always very comfortable. Of course, my default is the head down below, if conditions and watch coverage allow. It also serves as the midnight urinal at the slip, during shoulder seasons, when I can't get to a pump out.
That's why some of us are smart enough to buy and sail ketches!
We have these really useful things called shrouds, actually three per side, back aftish in the most comfortable part of our boats, in which we can entwine ourselves whence emptying one's own personal bilges. Arg....
Take some exception to this advice.
We have two heads. One’s a manual in the forward stateroom where we sleep when at anchor. The other an electric just behind the nav station in front of the work room.
I usually am up and about an hour sometimes two before the bride. The morning routine is get up and leave the forward stateroom closing the door. Put on water for coffee. Go to the sugar scoop and pee. That way don’t wake the wife nor give any surrounding neighbors a thrill.
Sometimes it’s safer to kneel on your knees and hang your business over the edge to pee in a seaway. You’re on watch so want to be quick. If you have full follies on with fleece under it makes it cumbersome. You can go to the head and take off the harness/tether put in the shower. Open up the tops. Drop the foulies bottoms and fleece. Kneel and pee. You can not fall and importantly can’t slide pinching your stuff on the edge of the seat (ouch!!!!).
I can't believe how difficult it is to get men to sit on the head to pee when underway. I don't care how good your aim is, you are just making a mess for someone to clean up after you are done. Let's drop the chauvinist crap and be courteous guys!
Another good thing about a composting head … everyone must sit, all the time.
I do pee over the side sometimes. I try not to do it within view of others. My boat's multiple shrouds and wide side decks make it pretty easy, even under way.
If your dink is in the bowl you don’t miss. That’s the key. Sitting or kneeling it doesn’t matter. In a crowded anchorage to avoid the noise of running the head “if it’s yellow let it mellow”. Or go for a swim.
Always interested me in the states if you leave the through hull open and pee you’re breaking the law. If you go into the water and pee you’re not.
Been told even poop bugs die in high salinity ocean salt water within 5-6’ of dispersal from a macerated discharge. Bugs (even E. coli) can’t tolerate the salinity once it’s much pass the 0.9 seen in you. Of course not true in brackish water. Still, we don’t swim nor run the RO in most harbors unless they’re pretty much empty and there’s good movement. Probably more an aesthetic decision but better to be safe than sorry. Also don’t want any sulfur forming bugs on my filters.
Raise your hands.....how many have seen sail boaters (especially Europeans) in an anchorage peeing or the other thing over the side or from their scoop? Why make it about power boaters?
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