At one time or another, all of us or or guests will experience motion sickness aboard. What are your more successfull remedies and the their source? Would the Strictly Sail shows have remedies or are they hoax cures?
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giner snaps and motion ease.
motion ease is a liquid you dob behind your ear got mine at a boat show, works great!
motion ease is a liquid you dob behind your ear got mine at a boat show, works great!
I've tried several remidies
Ive tried bonamine and dramamine. Couldn't stay awake hardly with that junk. Mythbusters had a show on and I think they might have tied the ginger root and it seemed to work decent. Airborne that stuff the teacher developed to keep from getting a cold around small enclosed areas (Like airplanes, buses, and classrooms) said something about motion sickness on it. I tried it when I sailed to the Bahamas. We had some 8 to 10 foot waves and I never got sick. There were times though that I had to put it out of my mind. Captain Woody in lats and atts say's seasickness is in your mind, don't think about it and you won't be sick. Thats the best remedy I've found so far......Tim Welsh H34 S/V Cabo Wabo
Ive tried bonamine and dramamine. Couldn't stay awake hardly with that junk. Mythbusters had a show on and I think they might have tied the ginger root and it seemed to work decent. Airborne that stuff the teacher developed to keep from getting a cold around small enclosed areas (Like airplanes, buses, and classrooms) said something about motion sickness on it. I tried it when I sailed to the Bahamas. We had some 8 to 10 foot waves and I never got sick. There were times though that I had to put it out of my mind. Captain Woody in lats and atts say's seasickness is in your mind, don't think about it and you won't be sick. Thats the best remedy I've found so far......Tim Welsh H34 S/V Cabo Wabo
Relief Band
I get seasick all the time! I even had trouble during my C34 sea-trails in Long Beach harbor.
I have some luck in the fact that dramamine also works very well for me but makes me sleepy. Finally decided to try the Relief Band (adjustable mild shock to a nerve in your wrist). This thing works great! I can be getting ready to hang over the side and 10 mins after turning it on I'm fine. I bought two and loan my spare to anyone having trouble on my boat. The reaction is almost always awe at how well it works. Make sure you get the one with replacable batteries and keep some spare batteries. I highly recommend this product!
I get seasick all the time! I even had trouble during my C34 sea-trails in Long Beach harbor.
I have some luck in the fact that dramamine also works very well for me but makes me sleepy. Finally decided to try the Relief Band (adjustable mild shock to a nerve in your wrist). This thing works great! I can be getting ready to hang over the side and 10 mins after turning it on I'm fine. I bought two and loan my spare to anyone having trouble on my boat. The reaction is almost always awe at how well it works. Make sure you get the one with replacable batteries and keep some spare batteries. I highly recommend this product!Wrist bands (both kinds) works great
We have 3 pairs of non-electric wrist bands for my wife and guests. Each pair has 2 elastic bands with a round button facing your skin. They work great most of the time. When the seas gets too rough, my wife put on the electric ones, and gets zapped every few seconds. They work every time. Just remember that any pills, or things that you eat or drink, won't work if you are alreadey sick. Since you won't be able to keep it down. So you will have to take them "before" you get sick. This is why the wrist bands works so great. If you are already feeding the fishes, you can put them on, and you will feel fine pretty quickly.
We have 3 pairs of non-electric wrist bands for my wife and guests. Each pair has 2 elastic bands with a round button facing your skin. They work great most of the time. When the seas gets too rough, my wife put on the electric ones, and gets zapped every few seconds. They work every time. Just remember that any pills, or things that you eat or drink, won't work if you are alreadey sick. Since you won't be able to keep it down. So you will have to take them "before" you get sick. This is why the wrist bands works so great. If you are already feeding the fishes, you can put them on, and you will feel fine pretty quickly.
I bought some
Ginger capsuls at a health food store and on the ocean here with some pretty big swells they seem to have worked. When I used to go out on a fishing boat out of Avila with my son while at Cal Poly I never failed to be sick and feed/chum the 'fishes' on one side of the boat while they fished on the other. Seems with the Ginger I've been out 12 plus miles on the Mac26X and not a sign of being sick, except once when I had to tie the wheel and go below, felt as though if I had remained below very long the old 'Mal-de-Mar' would have made a showing.
Ginger capsuls at a health food store and on the ocean here with some pretty big swells they seem to have worked. When I used to go out on a fishing boat out of Avila with my son while at Cal Poly I never failed to be sick and feed/chum the 'fishes' on one side of the boat while they fished on the other. Seems with the Ginger I've been out 12 plus miles on the Mac26X and not a sign of being sick, except once when I had to tie the wheel and go below, felt as though if I had remained below very long the old 'Mal-de-Mar' would have made a showing.
electric wrist bands
the electric wrist bands work great for us, too! as jc said, just be sure you get the ones with replaceable batteries-the cheaper version is a throwaway
the electric wrist bands work great for us, too! as jc said, just be sure you get the ones with replaceable batteries-the cheaper version is a throwaway
Everyone is different
I really do not think that there is a one cure-all. Everyone suffers from this ailment at different levels. I used an electric wrist band on the way home from HI. and they seemed to work. The battery crapped out after about 3 days yet no more illness. I had a scop patch on when we left port, but got sick the next morning. I think the patch fell off. Attached is a link for some remedies.
I really do not think that there is a one cure-all. Everyone suffers from this ailment at different levels. I used an electric wrist band on the way home from HI. and they seemed to work. The battery crapped out after about 3 days yet no more illness. I had a scop patch on when we left port, but got sick the next morning. I think the patch fell off. Attached is a link for some remedies.
I've seen it work
I had a buddy that used to get queezy on an aircraft carrier. He tossed his cookies shortly after leaving the harbor on my 30ft in Lake Michigan. He bought the relief band and now can sail with me across the lake.
I had a buddy that used to get queezy on an aircraft carrier. He tossed his cookies shortly after leaving the harbor on my 30ft in Lake Michigan. He bought the relief band and now can sail with me across the lake.
Sea Sickness
I will vote for the Sea Bands they work great for all my sissy friends... I have tried them as well, no drugs just put them on your wrist and drink away!
I will vote for the Sea Bands they work great for all my sissy friends... I have tried them as well, no drugs just put them on your wrist and drink away!
"Rick"--This Is Going To Cost You!!
Rick--Everyone below is telling you all this and that to buy. Baloney!! I've sailed back and forth in the North Atlantic on merchant ships in big a-- storms and learned quickly the remedy. "CHEW GUM." The movement of the jaw activates the inter-ear where the motion sickness developes. I would go thru 3 to 4 packs of Juicy Fruit gum during a crossing. Another tip I suggest to my guests when it gets rough is no body goes below! It's like being in a box and you can't get your bearings. Lastly, when it is rough, everyone faces forward when in the cockpit due to the fact that one's head will always stay vertical when looking forward as the body from the neck down rotates with the movement of the boat. When the head is held in the vertical position it can stablize a line of sight to the horizon which lets the mind feel it is secure. I'm telling you folks this is no joke!! Try it!!
Rick--Everyone below is telling you all this and that to buy. Baloney!! I've sailed back and forth in the North Atlantic on merchant ships in big a-- storms and learned quickly the remedy. "CHEW GUM." The movement of the jaw activates the inter-ear where the motion sickness developes. I would go thru 3 to 4 packs of Juicy Fruit gum during a crossing. Another tip I suggest to my guests when it gets rough is no body goes below! It's like being in a box and you can't get your bearings. Lastly, when it is rough, everyone faces forward when in the cockpit due to the fact that one's head will always stay vertical when looking forward as the body from the neck down rotates with the movement of the boat. When the head is held in the vertical position it can stablize a line of sight to the horizon which lets the mind feel it is secure. I'm telling you folks this is no joke!! Try it!!
chewing gum or wood mast
what kind of wood? ;D Bob is right about the looking forward and not going below. I was once told that taking the helm is a great thing to do. I guess it forces you to look forward and occupies the mind on a task too. It worked for me once...didn't totally cure me, but I felt a lot better after 15 minutes. I've taken a couple women out on light wind days with almost no waves and they were fine all day, until they went down below for a few minutes. I disagree with Bob on one thing though. It's not that the head has to stay forward, but the eyes have to send the same signals that the ears are sending to the brain...that the body is moving. That's the problem with going down below or not looking outside the boat...ears say the body is moving but the eyes say it's not. If you're down below, everything you look at moves with you so it looks like you're not moving around. Now if your in the cockpit and your looking over the water, your eyes have to adjust as the boat moves and that tells the brain...hey...I'm moving.
what kind of wood? ;D Bob is right about the looking forward and not going below. I was once told that taking the helm is a great thing to do. I guess it forces you to look forward and occupies the mind on a task too. It worked for me once...didn't totally cure me, but I felt a lot better after 15 minutes. I've taken a couple women out on light wind days with almost no waves and they were fine all day, until they went down below for a few minutes. I disagree with Bob on one thing though. It's not that the head has to stay forward, but the eyes have to send the same signals that the ears are sending to the brain...that the body is moving. That's the problem with going down below or not looking outside the boat...ears say the body is moving but the eyes say it's not. If you're down below, everything you look at moves with you so it looks like you're not moving around. Now if your in the cockpit and your looking over the water, your eyes have to adjust as the boat moves and that tells the brain...hey...I'm moving.
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