Sealegs

[oGaryo]

the thread regarding being less seasick in a rib has got me thinking.. the first season we put to sea in a 17ft bowrider (2009) and I felt decidedly queezy every time we went out.. next season we upgraded to a 19ft cuddy and felt a little better but still had the odd bad turn... this year we've been in a 25ft boat and I've rarely felt uneasy, even after a few jars the night before at anchor in a bit of of roll.

questons is... is this down to progressively getting larger boats, albeit marginally larger, or am I finding my sea legs or indeed, is it a bit of both at play here?

 

[paultallett]

I see where your going with this........ but the only 2 times I've been seasick is;

1 In Cowes marina.

2 On a cruise ship!!

Make sense if that!!

 

[lisilou]

Can't go below deck while at anchor AT ALL!!

 

[Sneds]

Me, on a cross channel ferry. Not a nice experience!
Own boat. Never, yet!

 

[lisilou]

Didn't actually answer ur question...Gary, i think youve found them!

 

[OAF]

When out on my rib I never feel sick, when out on my 42ft Mobo up on the FB I never feel sick, sometimes when travelling inside of the my was mobo at displacement speed I feel a bit queezy but I once travelled on a ferry over to Ireland and I really felt sick, I have been boating all my life so I reckon that I must have my sea legs by now so feeling 'tom and dick' must be just be one of them things at that particular time, well for me anyway!

 

[OAF]

Just remembered, I did once honk my guts up over the transom, but that was after a rather heavy session in the Folly a few years back and I put that down to being sea sick!!

 

[Ripster]

Only ever felt the queezy feeling once whilst in the Marina when lying on my back in the Laz hold trying to replace a pipe. As soon as I got back above deck it went.

 

[jhr]

Nearly everybody is seasick at one time or another, and those who haven't been sick just haven't yet been out in bad enough weather

Having said which, a bigger boat (up to a point) will help.

 

[BrendanS]

Na, I've never been sick on small boats, only big ones, and that seldom, and when young - cross channel ferries were bad a few decades back.

Though went to Guernsey on the high speed cat from Guernsey Sunday before last when the remains of Katia were sweeping into the UK, and they cancelled the next ferry - quite a few onboard were succumbing! Not me thankfully.

I always found that with smaller boats, swinging at anchor was when most visitors/passengers started complaining, and pulling up anchor and going for a spin invariably sorted them very quickly. Getting their eyes on the horizon was the main reason.

 

[oceanfroggie]

It's hard to know, but I suspect you are developing your own sea legs. I've only been sea sick three times in my life, 39 years ago on my first day at sea in a lovely sailing ketch, 2 years later in a car ferry during an F8, 26 years ago game fishing off the Seychelles, but never since on a leisure boat of any size. Felt queazey on a cruise ship two years ago.

 

[MRC]

seasick

Ive been seasick loads....................One of the parts of boating that annoys me if that makes sense. Usually after a boozy night before which never helps. Smaller boats never a problem but I put that down to being active and more alert.

I would love to be one of those people who never feels sea sick.

My dads was sailing with a friend of his years and years ago. He suddenly ran and dived off the back of their yacht being sick mid air, swears to this day he has never been sea sick only airsick...

 

[oceanfroggie]

Oh I could feel sea sick once there is a decent swell, but I've been using this stuff for years and for whatever reason it seems to work for me. it doesn't make you drowsy either.

 

[epervier]

You're just looking for an excuse, go and buy the bigger boat, you know you want to, Debs will forgive you.....................

one day.

 

[Renegade_Master]

different motion ferry = seasick cos of the rolling effect, small boat on the plane different

 

[rafiki_]

Sounds like you found the cure to me Gary, a 25 ft boat. Now, what you don't know is what will happen if you go bigger?

 

[oGaryo]

Sounds like you found the cure to me Gary, a 25 ft boat. Now, what you don't know is what will happen if you go bigger?

I'll bet my right sealeg that I'll find out next year

 

[BosnBill]

It is said that everyone get seasick at least once if they're not a stranger to boats. I got sick once after a week rolling on the hook, but I attribute it to Jack Daniels and bad ice.

 

[Sultans_Kapitein]

Different motion of each vessel will have a different affect on each of us, during WWII my father was a chief engineer on MTBs, his 'oppo' was a Manx trawler man so had been brought up on boats all his life. On the MTBs he was fine no matter what the weather was doing, still okay on the minesweepers, but he just had to set foot on the really big stuff and he was green! My father told me of one occasion where they had to go aboard one of these new fangled aircraft carriers (Okay a converted cargo ship with a 'run way' added) and they had not even left the quayside when he was losing his lunch

Mal

 

[rafiki_]

I'll bet my right sealeg that I'll find out next year

Looking forward to the update.

By the way, SWMBO and I were fine on the Solent last week....................Lymington to Yarmouth ferry...................Bit of a run from Tewkesbury to the Island by boat so we took a short cut.