I can't believe I was sick.....

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I can\'t believe I was sick.....

I have never ever been sick until a few weekends ago when it happened for the first time.....OK it was a force 7 and at night without a horizon...but I cant believe I puked!

What tips do people have to avoid this? Has anyone else considered themselves invincible and then had to release their holding tank??!!
 
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Yes. Last time across the channel in a F7. First time in a monohull at sea for a few years and for the first time in my life I honked, on and off for about 5 hours. Humiliating. I've always felt a bit uncle dick for the first day of a passage but with the motion being so different to what I'm used to it got to me. And that was despite a dose of industrial strength stugeron.
 
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Nelson used to get sick for the first few days back at sea - if it was good enough for him, its good enough for me, give me a bit of space on the lee rail /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Well they say that you not a proper sailer unless you have been sea sick. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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I read something recently that says everyone gets seasick, but some as yet have not found the trigger, but they will!

When I was younger I had a terrible time at anchor in a swell from a previous storm, 1st time.

A couple of years ago on a night passage to Milford I was so uncomfortable we stopped at Fishguard instead.

Never thrown up though. These are the two times for me, I also believe it gets worse as you get older. I find in rough weather I am fine as the movement is more predictable I think, it is swells that seem to get me.
 
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its well known that the best cure for seasickness is reading a newspaper under a tree, preferably with a glass of wine in ones hand ...
however my wife - struggling to 'try this sailing stuff' early in our married life found thinly sliced tomatoes in a sandwich without butter helped.
its a mind thing .... think about it and you will be.
if that doesnt work try dry toast and smidgeon of marmite - or if you cant get toast then a dry cream cracker with a little marmite.
sucking a sliver of raw ginger helps others but - yuk
prevention is better than cure so dont go on the raging piss immediatly before you sail ...
bonne voyage and hope this helps ....

:-)
 
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I find I can cope with the rolling without too much problem, it is the slamming and vertical acceleration that really gets to me, especially if I cant see the horizon.
 
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who sez that - presumably people who have a complex and are usually sick?

I was doing this delivery with Herr Golding on his BT boat some years back, the son of the chandler at Shamrock Quay ponced his way on - a 5 day stint to hartlepool- that mofo was puking non stop for four and a half days in one of the ships tin mugs, rinsing it out and then using any old 'new' tin mug, disgusting, he could'nt even get it together to hang over the rail, bloody useless deadweight 'chundler'.
 
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I find I can cope with the rolling without too much problem, it is the slamming and vertical acceleration that really gets to me, especially if I cant see the horizon.

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How odd. Small boats bashing and crashing I haven't a problem with, but larger boats (ships, oh no, not that argument) make me uncomfortable. The pitching on North Sea Ferry's smaller ships experienced from deep in the bowels is very disturbing on a rough night.
Same with airliners (ooer) and light aircraft or helicopters (weehee).
 
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Hi BFW,

So far so good!! Have sailed for around 34 years and managed to avoid it so far, BUT, as Chay Blyth (I believe it was) once said, "no one is invincible where sea-sickness is concerned" so I am fully expecting some rotten combination of wind and wave to nail me one of these days.

I sometimes wonder (and worry) how I'll feel about sailing afterwards though.

Cheers Jerry
 
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Yes- I was sick once, in the dark, in overfalls off Cardiff. Tired, end of a working week , and nervous about my first big trip.

I found it frightening. Not the being sick, but that I really coulndt have given a damn if the shipping out of Cardiff had plowed through us and I had drowned. I wanted to die, no exageration. Luckily, the crew had an iron stomach and he took over. Within minutes of rounding the breakwater at Barry, I was eating a bacon sandwich.

That was 12 years ago. Ever since I have mainlined on Stugeron. And much of the time I have had a cat which undoubtedly is better from that point of view.

P.S. The only other time was 40 years ago in a diesel electric sub on the surface rounding the Isle of Wight. Smell of diesel and battery acid and no horizon at all. It rolled through at least 35 degrees with a rhythm like a catwalk models hips.
 
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I always said it was all in the mind. Never a hint, sailed, motored, small boats, ships. Then one day, well into my 30's, on a 25 foot fishing boat on a blustery day in The Solent I was sick - for 8 hours solid! That was more than 10 years ago and only felt queasy on one occasion since on a longish passage on a sailing boat.

Chay Blyth is probably right.
 
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I think that sea sickness need not just one thing but 2 or 3 things to set it off.

Being wet,
going to the heads
diesels smells
too much rich food.
alcohol
nervous.
scared
cold.
tired
hungry
,cooking strong smelling food in any kind of swell.

unusually motion on your boat,

any 2 of the above could set you off.

anyone think of any more?.

different types of boats have different motions, sometime you just need to get used to it. then you feel fine. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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being pregnant
watching someone else puking up
cleaning up someone elses puke
changing a smelly nappy
looking at a serious wound oozing blood, gristle and bone fragments
watching todays trash tv
 
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I was sick aged 4 crossing the Atlantic (on an old Head Line boat) in a winter storm, the worst the captain had ever experienced. He confided to my father on arrival (in ice) in Montreal that the ship's back was broken. The crossing took 3 weeks including a stopover in Glasgow.

Since then the closest I have come was on a small ferry off SW Iceland in 1964, and cleaning out a blocked heads in a F6.

John
 
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"And much of the time I have had a cat which undoubtedly is better from that point of view."

Does it sit on your lap so that you can stroke it and calm yourself?
 
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