Getting used to blue water sailing

[JonnyQuest]

Are you saying that you do get seasick on your "eggs and sausages" or that you don't?
If you don't have a problem with seasickness then you could eat anything, but if you do.....
I'm sure you just made all who do get seasick get queezy just mentioning "eggs and sausages" and sailing in the same post.

That's funny Cap! I wish I didn't get seasick; I've got a catch-22 that eating good for you cereals muffins etc brings on Montezumas Revenge all day long! So I'm damned either way. Eggs and sausage treat me well, enough though. sorry for the regurgitive thoughts it may have given some. ;-)

 

[capta]

I was on submarines for a long time. On one boat we had a Corpsman that would start getting queezy about the time we would single up the lines and by the time we crossed outside Ballast Point he'd be full blown seasick. Of course those of us that would sit next to him eating canned sardines and smoked oysters probably didn't help any.

I had heard that once you submerged nobody got seasick???? I guess I heard wrong???

 

[Stretch]

Try a night passage across the Strait of Georgia with some wind, as Jibes points out, this would be a good first test.

Then, try being grossly overserved rum, as the second test.

 

[Roadking Larry]

I had heard that once you submerged nobody got seasick???? I guess I heard wrong???

We had to cross the 100 fathom curve before diving, sometimes that's a ways out. I did some ugly surface transits over the years for various reasons. Spent 48 hours on the surface west of Pt Reyes CA after coming out of the yards becasue it was too rough for our safety boat to come out and first dive after overhaul has to have a safety boat. We were taking green water over the bridge all night that time. The transit throught the Straights of Juan De Fuca was fun as well.
In Oct. '91 we had the pleasure of crossing the Atlantic during a big storm, they made a movie about that storm, we were taking 10-15 degree rolls at 400' keel depth, The the CO decided we just had to go up and copy the broadcast, he wanted football scores.
Also made a surface transit from Holland to Edinburgh in the early spring.
It wasn't an every day thing but we got to experience the pleasure of rough water too.

 

[Wanderer138]

Hey YVR, I noticed you mentioned "gravel" earlier in the thread. Did you mean "Gravol"? If so, that should work well. Someone else mentioned Stugeron (cinnarizine) which works very well but isn't available in Canada or the US. I used to buy it over the counter in The Bahamas. Unlike most other medications, Stugeron is effective in reducing symptoms after the onset of seasickness. It comes in several strengths, including 15 mg, 25 mg and "forte" at 75 mg so read the label carefully before taking as it does have side effects.

 

[nolasafari]

It wasn't an every day thing but we got to experience the pleasure of rough water too.

I rode a Tin Can during Vietnam, we mostly did plane guard duties, where the Carrier went we followed. Had a few rough water experiences. The deck apes would head for coverage we the snipes would head out for fresh air. The narrow passageways would sometimes give me a second of vertigo but nothing very serious. Hit shore after a extended deployment and go drinking, then the entire bar are building would start rocking and rolling. Fun times.

 

[sailaway78]

I never get sick

As long as my mind is occupied and busy. But give me a long rolling swell, and nothing to do, and look out.