lee hsieh wrote: > > I didn't see any mention of this on the paddlewise website so i'll assume > this topic hasn't been covered yet. Being an active sort of fella in my > early 30's, i usually have to urinate about once every hour[can hold for > 2..heard it's not healthy] due to a high metabolism. For those of you with > similar circumstances, how do you relieve yourself during long trips in > your kayak. Short of exiting or peeing in your wetsuit, there must be some > tried and true methods out there. I believe this has been covered before, at least by me here and elsewhere. I use the PortaJohn bottle available from Campmor and I bet REI, MEC and other places. It costs around $6, has a screw on top and its nozzle is long and angles up. It resembles the pee bottle you get in a hospital only with more of an angle and a longer neck. Bright red so that you don't mistake it with any other container. Its construction is such that you can relieve yourself easily in a seated position. The bottle lies flat and secure against the floor of your kayak with little possibility of tipping over so you can chance using the bottle without holding the bottle. This way, if you are in mixed company or near where people may see you, no one need know what you are doing. Open up your sprayskirt, reach down, deploy the bottle, take your hands away from your lower anatomy and try to surpress that telltale smile of relief. This particular bottle has a handle. I use that to tether it to a crossrib of my folding kayak (love those ribs for securely placing all sorts of things inside your kayak). Having such a pee bottle won't do you much good if your clothes doesn't allow you to use it at sea. I always am wearing items that allow peeing into the bottle. My dry suit, while not equipped with a relief zipper, has its zipper positioned in a way that when fully open, I can pee into the bottle. I did a dry run with it in a boat before buying that dry suit. Ditto with my wet suit variety of items and of course with my summer clothes, i.e. shorts. Also, and this is blatant plug for a folding kayak, the boat is stable enough that I don't have to raft up with someone else nor do any bracing even in fairly choppy seas and wake battered areas. I put my paddle into its paddle park or leave it hanging from its tether, since I don't need to brace or scull while relieving myself. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 01 2000 - 07:02:36 PDT
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