Ever been seasick on your own boat?

[Kukri]

Thats what I was wondering, judging by the replies on this thread its not unheard of. eg Ever been seasick on your own boat?

Can't that common though or it would be a big cause of RNLI call outs and we'd have heard of it.

Yes, my apologies to Daydream Believer whose account I had read with interested sympathy and then ignored in my own post.

 

[Rappey]

but those who say they’ve never been sick I suspect just haven’t been thrown around enough yet..

I don't agree with that. The last time I was ever sick was in a foreign country when I was 10.
Drunk myself into oblivion many times when younger but never ever threw up.
Never travel sick and never even close to it on a boat, not even the next day with a horrendous hangover.
Did a cross channel ferry in a force 10 daylight crossing. The ride was amazing and really enjoyed it while being thrown about whilst wandering around the ship. So many being sick everywhere though .
Cross channel hovercraft in very rough conditions as every wave it dropped off was like going over a hump back bridge in a car .
Went on a 72ft wave piercer and became weightless many times, even hit the cabin roof but thoroughly enjoyed it.
Loved crazy fairground type rides. Drew the line in Las Vegas where the coaster threw you over the edge of the 1000ft tower ?

 

[john_morris_uk]

I don't agree with that. The last time I was ever sick was in a foreign country when I was 10.
Drunk myself into oblivion many times when younger but never ever threw up.
Never travel sick and never even close to it on a boat, not even the next day with a horrendous hangover.
Did a cross channel ferry in a force 10 daylight crossing. The ride was amazing and really enjoyed it while being thrown about whilst wandering around the ship. So many being sick everywhere though .
Cross channel hovercraft in very rough conditions as every wave it dropped off was like going over a hump back bridge in a car .
Went on a 72ft wave piercer and became weightless many times, even hit the cabin roof but thoroughly enjoyed it.
Loved crazy fairground type rides. Drew the line in Las Vegas where the coaster threw you over the edge of the 1000ft tower ?

So you’re fairly immune. I still believe there may come a time when the circumstances dictate to your brain and inner ear, “vomit now”. You may never reach it, but IIRC there are machines that the airforce and astronauts use that make everyone vomit eventually.

 

[Kukri]

On a practical note, if you wear spectacles, as I do, be careful that your eyeglasses do not fall off your nose and go overboard with your last meal. Chandlers sell really good spectacle retainers now but a bit of whipping twine also works.

 

[capnsensible]

So you’re fairly immune. I still believe there may come a time when the circumstances dictate to your brain and inner ear, “vomit now”. You may never reach it, but IIRC there are machines that the airforce and astronauts use that make everyone vomit eventually.

The surfaced submarine is quite an effective machine for making people vomit. As one can imagine, sypathy in that situation is rock bottom. The bravest though are those that still keep their watch with a bucket tied round their necks.

I still prefer to encourage rather than mock though, even having now grown immune. I remember what it was like!

Edit. Never on a submarine so have done stacks of other people's watches.....

 

[Rappey]

So you’re fairly immune.

I've never really been ill. The only times I've needed to seek medical help is through an injury, usually self inflicted.
I was around 5 yrs old and next doors kid had measles. My parents sent me round there and assume that was so I would catch it whilst young . I never did. Chicken pox is the only thing I've had and I was so young I can't remember it. Not had a cold for as long as I can remember.
Playing it safe with covid though !
Experienced a glider being put through what felt like some pretty impressive g forces and loved every minute of it.
I think one day I will just keel over and game over ?

 

[john_morris_uk]

The surfaced submarine is quite an effective machine for making people vomit. As one can imagine, sypathy in that situation is rock bottom. The bravest though are those that still keep their watch with a bucket tied round their necks.

I still prefer to encourage rather than mock though, even having now grown immune. I remember what it was like!

Edit. Never on a submarine so have done stacks of other people's watches.....

I agree. I was in a T boat on a long transit into Lagos. We rolled and rolled and of course there’s no horizon to reference for 98% of people on board. I wasn’t sick but I remember the motion being most unpleasant. Submarines have very interesting GZ curves!

 

[Adios]

I agree. I was in a T boat on a long transit into Lagos. We rolled and rolled and of course there’s no horizon to reference for 98% of people on board.

Funny just as you're saying this I was wondering if a pilot house might be worse than a regular cabin for seeing the horizon going up and down. I certainly think if you're standing up outside facing the horizon and keeping still with the boat moving under you that is the optimum position for not feeling ill. But if inside, sitting and therefore going with the motion I wonder if seeing the horizon moving past the window continually would make it worse. We know some of this is psychological so it might be we see the movement and feel ill in a similar way to seeing someone being ill and we feel ill.

 

[Never Grumble]

The surfaced submarine is quite an effective machine for making people vomit. As one can imagine, sypathy in that situation is rock bottom. The bravest though are those that still keep their watch with a bucket tied round their necks.

Undertaking bridge watches on a mine hunter it was much easier just to wander out to the bridge wing and vomit down the superstructure.

 

[capnsensible]

I agree. I was in a T boat on a long transit into Lagos. We rolled and rolled and of course there’s no horizon to reference for 98% of people on board. I wasn’t sick but I remember the motion being most unpleasant. Submarines have very interesting GZ curves!

In order to dive, you need to put the sea on the beam.

On several occasions I've been directed by my Captain to broadcast 'the submarine is turning beam to sea and may roll heavily' and subsequently that developed into a large understatement.

 

[alexincornwall]

The only known catalyst for me feeling seasick is having a skinful the night before, especially if it involves spirits. I've felt pretty rough on occasions but never actually been sick, though I've often wished I could just get it over with!

This has happened on numerous occasions so I am clearly unable/unwilling to learn my lesson.

 

[john_morris_uk]

In order to dive, you need to put the sea on the beam.

On several occasions I've been directed by my Captain to broadcast 'the submarine is turning beam to sea and may roll heavily' and subsequently that developed into a large understatement.

I certainly remember the relief of going deep to find calm and quiet!

 

[tsekul]

Big following swell, light winds. Packing a spinnaker. ?

 

[MOBY2]

Check out my nickname, spent first 3 1/2 years of working on Fishing boats being sick, eventually got through it don`t get it often now thank God... mind you stayed ashore last year ...

 

[Sandy]

Gosh, this thread has sparked a few memories. In my old boat we headed out of the Exe with a chap who was keen to come sailing as he had done a lot of sailing as a lad in the Solent, just as we passed the SWM he stuck is head over the transom, 20 mins later he had another conversation with Neptune. A messy 1.5 meter swell in a brisk F5, I turned the boat round and headed back into the Exe. The tide had turned and we were making SOG of about a knot it took us ages to pass Exmouth.

Second fun story was coming out of Falmouth in my current boat after discovering Porthleven beer the evening before. My crew spent a lot of time "inspecting the waterline", his words not mine.

 

[geem]

Wow, I cant believe the number of people that get seasick! I have never really thought about it before but I have never been seasick. The wife gets sick at the beginning of the season usually but as the miles build she becomes immune. On a long passage she is normally cured after about three days. One of the things that helps her is stodgy food on a little but often basis. Keeping the stomach full helps. If she has an empty stomach she often feels more ill.

 

[Babylon]

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But this is the point. If you were skipper you probably wouldn't have been ill at all and your young crew would have lost his lunch and enthusiasm instead. How is this difference so critical I wonder?

It is significant I believe. I'd have still felt like shite due to the physical external factors outlined (although I didn't actually vomit - I hardly ever do). What would have made some difference is the mental attitude I'd have had to retain as the active skipper.

The mind is a very powerful thing. I'm no masochist, but at the dentist I prefer to not have any local anaesthetic for routine maintenance work - drilling out old fillings etc . I prepare my mind for any stabs or sustained periods of pain before the drilling and grinding starts. It doesn't really matter what one chooses to focus on (I used to imagine a Napoleonic Wars soldier having his shattered leg sawn off, or a mythical boiling alive of a missionary in a cauldron, as examples to my pussy self of real pain) but the point is that the focus needs to be sustained away from the immediate situation.

I can't remember what I meditated on last time (which was tediously long due to the Covid-related changes in procedures by my dentist), but at a certain point I found myself soaring with condors high above the Andes, largely unaware of any sharp spasms of pain whatsoever...!

Not sure any of this would work the same way down below at the chart table! ?

 

[Habebty]

I have been sick whilst skipper. Rather to my own surprise. It didn’t incapacitate me.

More to the point I’ve never been sick when singlehanded. Has anyone?

I predominantly single hand and have never felt ill, usually too busy or thinking about tweaking sails etc.
Only puked due to motion sickness twice in my life, once coming back from Holland on a f6 beat on a friend’s boat, and once stepping off the waltzers at Billy Mannings at Southsea aged 17 which was possibly more down to the dodgy burger I had just eaten which rapidly reappeared ?

 

[Adios]

I predominantly single hand and have never felt ill, usually too busy or thinking about tweaking sails etc.
Only puked due to motion sickness twice in my life, once coming back from Holland on a f6 beat on a friend’s boat, and once stepping off the waltzers at Billy Mannings at Southsea aged 17 which was possibly more down to the dodgy burger I had just eaten which rapidly reappeared ?

That follows my pattern exactly. Those Waltzers are horrific but a good test for sea legs probably. Their motion pretty much mimics the down wind wallowing lots of people mention as the worst

 

[WoodyP]

On a practical note, if you wear spectacles, as I do, be careful that your eyeglasses do not fall off your nose and go overboard with your last meal. Chandlers sell really good spectacle retainers now but a bit of whipping twine also works.

If you have false teeth they can go over as well. Chandler's are not noted dentists.