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... where should you pee?

• JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > where should you pee? The head. If there isn’t one, give a buddy a heads up.
  • jacurtis 4y ago
    In this case there was no buddy either. Really if you ever need to go the edge of the boat you should be tied in. This is especially true with sailboats since you often work at the edge of the boat doing things like pulling lines or other actions where you can easily lose balance or the boat can quickly shift. If you are sailing in open water like this, miles from shore, especially solo, you should be tying yourself whenever you go to the edge of the boat. This is standard equipment on most boats, a full-body harness (often intergrated with an CO2 inflated life vest and water activated beacon). There is a big industrial caribiner style clip you clip onto the railing or similar with so that if you fall overboard you can pull yourself back. The rig is similar to what you would wear while roofing a house. This applies to all offshore boating, but if you are ever boating solo, even more precaution should be taken to do this.
• dzhiurgis 4y ago
  Cut a piece of plastic bottle to make a portable urinal
• oh_my_goodness 4y ago
  Who is downvoting this? This is very literally the key life-and-death question. Too bad if there's some humor in it. You have to live with that sometimes.
• wyldfire 4y ago
  Deactivate the propulsion before peeing. Maybe even drop anchor? If you fall overboard you could probably get back onboard.
  • sandworm101 4y ago
    Anchors are only a thing very very close to land. Few boats carry a thousand-foot anchor rope.
    • rationalist 4y ago
      Anchors do not need to touch the bottom of the ocean for them to slow the watercraft down or reduce its drift. Anchors are very much a thing far away from shore.
• wiml 4y ago
  You should clip on. If you're moving around anywhere you could possibly fall over, and you're alone or the water isn't calm or you're far from shore or basically any other risk factor, you clip yourself to the jacklines first.
• blamazon 4y ago
  If you're alone and can't stop and don't have anything the other commenters mentioned and your boat is fiberglass and in good condition? Just pee inboard on the deck in a place with good drainage and wash it off. Can't be much worse than the droppings that birds provide. But, personally in general (car camping especially) I like the humble pee bottle. At Walmart in the RV section they have the blue chemicals used in portable toilets and plane lavatories and the like. You can get it in a little tide pod format. Cuts the smell and keeps things sterile. Drop that into any container (preferably non-translucent and 2+ liters) add a little water and you've got your own miniature portable toilet. You can also buy a real portable toilet, they are quite nice these days, but can be bulky. The keyword to find them is "cartridge toilet" because typically the waste volume is a container that is detached and carried to the dump point. I once hiked 3 miles holding one of these portable toilets just so I could take a dramatically scenic (and civilized) poop and it was absolutely worth it.
  • jimnotgym 4y ago
    I think a bucket is more traditional...
  • sandworm101 4y ago
    Or at least pee from behind a railing of some sort so that when you slip you won't fall outside the boat.
    • KMag 4y ago
      Note that the railing has to be high enough that even with the swaying of the boat, it's not going to hit you below your center of mass. A lot of boat railings aren't tall enough.
• yafbum 4y ago
  Bucket Gatorade bottle (the dude even had his own supply according to TFA) Worst case, on deck near the drain holes, then wash it off