Bucket and lid

Another day of driving rain and very strong winds, with SIRENA IV holed up in Scheveningen with her warps creaking and occasional lurches across her berth.

And more hours spent over the charts, pilot books and weather websites. We think we might have a chance to go south for a short window of better weather tomorrow...not exactly good weather, but better than now.

We had an near crisis earlier - involving a feature of the boat which we've had since 2012. It is a white nappy bucket- see pic.

Those of a sensitive nature should stop reading now. We have a boat with an old fashioned sea toilet, in other words if you pee in it and flush it goes straight into the water. There are many places where this is forbidden  such as in marinas, locked basins and the Baltic Sea. 

So we have an alternative receptacle for pee - the robust nappy bucket with a lid which we bought from Gillingham Mothercare 8 years ago.

Today the precious lid of that bucket flew off in transit to the marina toilets, in a huge gust of wind, and landed in the water. We were aghast! Nic followed its progress across the marina, lay full length on the pontoon whispering 'come to Papa!'. He caught it just before it sank. See pic for the happy moment.

So tonight we raise a glass to our bucket and its lid, safe on board.