Shower

[mikeroth]

Has anyone had any luck adding a hot water shower to an ariel?

[Bill]

Frank Durant did one . . . http://www.pearsonariel.org/discussion/showthread.php?t=1239

See post #48 for the "completed" shower photo . . . not sure if he added hot water . . .

Someone else did a shower in the cockpit, but I can't remember who . . Search on "shower."

[ebb]

Little Gull is going to have a G.I. cockpit shower
put together with a 2 gallon Chapin pressure pump garden sprayer.
The water heated on the stove.
I'm too large for a V-berth sitdown like Frank had.
And my interior layout would not allow a protected built-in.

But somewhere I saw (Pardey's?) a shower curtain and stainless hoop affair that might work for us at the foot of the companionway inside an Ariel. The waste water would be pumped out of the bilge. Or I thought a plastic pan base could be customed and the grey water collected and pumped out of it - so that no smelly water would remain in the boat.

A take down (or maybe call it a hangup) curtain and hoop shower would also work in the cockpit to keep the washing ritual contained and the cockpit habitable.
More casual, a curtain won't need a bottom hoop or a pan. The top hoop could be made from straight pieces and corners, square, and be easy to knockdown into a small package.

Containing graywater might be a problem for some especially in protected waters. Small quantity showers could be temporarily stored in jugs.
Biogradable LOW SUDS soaps should be used. Doing right by the environment is something I'm always conscious of - BUT where do you draw the line?
A line of soapsuds emerging from your boat in a quiet marina could be really embarrassing... if not dangerous these days.

[Tony G]

Our favorite Aussi, Geoff, had a hand held, recessed jobbie installed in UHURU's cockpit. We're hoping to something similar to Mr Ebb's plan-only with the addition of lee cloths on the lifelines around the stern and surrounding the cockpit. I'm quite bashful:D

[c_amos]

I'm quite bashful:D

Having gone the cockpit shower route myself, I can say that shyness goes away. We started out only using it in remote areas, but given that the alternative was either paying for a marina or going without we learned that modesty was not as valuable as it started out to be.

Faith does have some lee cloths, but they were not a very effective privacy barrier. We did find that the dimming light of the evening was ideal, although not on inland anchorages (small flying demons are a bathers nightmare).

FWIW, we had a sun shower and a garden sprayer. The sun shower used too much water but was good for rinsing Rose's long hair. The best was to swim, then wash with the sprayer and rinse with a little bit of warm water from the sun shower.

[ebb]

That's right, at a certain point you get liberated from bashful.

Joshua Slocum got arrested after returning from his historic circumnavigation.
I believe it was a father protecting his daughter from an unbuttoned fly.

I think privacy (paranoia) curtains are to protect yourself from idiots.
It was the father what had the guilty mind - Slocum had just been at sea too long.

I always figure there is something about me that will offend someone.
Even though, for the most part, I don't really care if I offend anyone.
It's that one phone call in this country is all it takes for a bureaucratic military over-reaction to really screw your life up.
So curtains are for self preservation.
It's not about body parts.*

An opaque tarp over the boom, a couple lines about 3' above the coamings, and you might drape yourself an instant privacy tent.
Read somewhere that the right kind of plastic tarp draped INTO the cockpit well would make it into a nice bathtub.
With the obvious caveat of never enough sweet water to float your rubber duckies.

And all this because cleanliness is a social thing.
:oMostly.
__________________________________________________ ___________________________________________
* On that point, a big piece of noseeum mesh could be draped over the cockpit.
Black 800-hole-per-sq-inch mesh ( a gossamer and soft material known as urban camouflage) cuts sun glare allowing better visibility looking out - but prying eyes can't see thru it looking in. This works on windows and doorways with unlighted interiors, maybe not as effective on an open cockpit. But worth a try?.
Don't know about air movement thru the mesh (rated at 65%) but it'll foil the smallest midge. Hard to find, most noseeum net is 650 and doesn't have the optical trick of 800.