[Kickass Conservative]

My Ex B-I-L had a few Sailboats in his time.

Since he sailed so much he always sat down to Pee, even on dry land.

[wardaddy]

I peed off the transom and only sat on the head to poop

Sailboats....trawlers....merchant ships....import boats

I think your BIL was effing with ya

Let me ping a trans Pacific solo sailor

Maybe i did it wrong.....many heads have a little pee tube or raised tiny urine toliet for men in the head....bout the size of a milk carton

Merchant vessels sure do...
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On sailboats at night in seas i always tied off before peeing off the stern especially if alone at 3am watch

[Travis McGee]

I've got 50K+ ocean miles under my belt, and let me tell you, men don't go below to a head to take a pee! They hang it over the side to leeward, or "check for reefs astern," in the words of an old sailing mentor. The idea that any man would go below and go through the process of opening and closing through-hull valves etc just to take a piss is laughable. Look at all of that salt water around the old Escape Pod! Come on, get real! In really heavy weather, crazy stuff, where going to the side is like climbing from car to car on a roller-coaster, sailors use an old mayonaise jar or the like in the cockpit. Or they just piss in the cockpit, which drains straight down to the sea, "flushed" by the waves and spray. But 98% of the time, men on sailboats piss over the side. "Heads" on sailboats are not like toilets on the land, to say the least, especially when the boat is typcially heeled over about 20*, while pitching, rolling and yawing. So for starters, the head's seat is leaning over at 20*. Much, much easier to brace against the old radar arch on the stern, and let her rip.