40 More Handy Tricks

Step 33 Bailer from Plastic Jug

A bailer like this is just the thing for throwing water out of your boat.
This jug is so perfect for the purpose I suspect it was designed to be made into a bailer.
A nearly identical design was used all over the pacific.

Here's a drawing of one from Malekula in the New Hebrides Islands, as seen in "Canoes of Oceania" volume 2, by Haddon and Hornell

Comments

[urtlesquirt]

Dude, this is elementary in any junior sailing.

[cofosho]

If you're on an easily capsize-able boat, be sure to affix the bailer to it with some good line and a couple bowlines.