BLUEMOMENT

Quite a good tip in itself ... but the use of a dinghy bailer in the cockpit rather than the one armed swing off the backstay when nature calls could be safer, specially when single-handed (?).

Not sure they make balers big enough for me

If it's too disturbed to go safely over the side, where do you find all the arms to control the boat, hold bailer,clothing,bodyparts, etc.
Not being an octopus, it's the cockpit drain for me, . (and it's constantly self flushing in the kind of weather I'm talking about)
Ah, nostalgia. All different nowadays of course, thanks to davits and the giant pisspot that hangs therefrom.

Quite a while since I used it (mixed family crew you understand) but I always felt that the arm round a shroud should be the one that controls direction & flow, leaving the other hand for holding on to the boat. Providing one doesn't let go of the wife's best friend, you are effectively holding on with both hands (well a hand & an arm anyway)

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Not sure if I have seen any T-towel material recently . . .

A screw down lid would be handy - maybe a plastic milk container.....or the churn for Claysie. These athletes have hydration systems for inputting liquids, maybe the time has come for something for the other end.

spuddy wrote:A screw down lid would be handy - maybe a plastic milk container.....or the churn for Claysie. These athletes have hydration systems for inputting liquids, maybe the time has come for something for the other end.

No not a milk container.
Had no other option one night but a milk container, so used the one that had yesterdays milk in it.
Arrived back to the boat next morning after my facial in the Tarbert bog, to find my Brother in law, (worst for the weather), poteen I think!, questioning the quality of the milk he had just put in his morning coffe, but fortunatly had not tasted yet.
The look of look of utter bewilderment on his face when I grabed the cup from him and chucked its contants overboard, then binned the cup, and handed him a fresh container of milk.
Asked him a few weeks later, (after explaining the scenario) what would he have done if he had tasted it, to which he replied, I would be wearing every cup in the cupboard.

When I first went to sea I was taught 'flies open on arrival'

When I got this boat it came with a bucket labelled "clean bucket", I thought it wierd to label the bucket so.

It went in the Bure at Yarmouth and I wasn't quick enough with the boat hook to rescue it.

I've never felt the need to label the qurrent en-suite facilities which stay in the cockpit when I'm sailing.

The United States Coastguard call it FOS (flys open syndrome) when they pull a corpse out of the water which I am told is about 60 times a year around the coast of the USA :shock: