Seasickness.. When is it too much?

It's one approach I suppose, but I've never thought that bullying, attempting to intimidate or telling the victim of seasickness to "pull themselves together" was likely to be a good way of skippering a boat. I've certainly never thought of making them swallow their own vomit.....a bucket is much better.

I go boating for enjoyment and I also try to make it enjoyable for my crew.
 
Rigger Mortice said:
It's one approach I suppose, but I've never thought that bullying, attempting to intimidate or telling the victim of seasickness to "pull themselves together" was likely to be a good way of skippering a boat. I've certainly never thought of making them swallow their own vomit.....a bucket is much better.

I go boating for enjoyment and I also try to make it enjoyable for my crew.
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I'll sail with you Rigger. You can be mum. Do you do chicken soup as well:D:D:D
 
Nostrodamus said:
I'll sail with you Rigger. You can be mum. Do you do chicken soup as well:D:D:D
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And you will be welcome aboard. We can do chicken soup, but the house favourite is a creamy carrot soup.
At night we offer a special "tuck you up in your bunk" service together with a choice of hot drinks. However, I draw the line at goodnight kisses. :):):)
 
Nostrodamus said:
There was a program I saw some time ago when they put someone in one of those chairs and spun them in every direction to see how long it was before thy got motion sickness.

On each occasion they tried bands, tablets, and all the remedies you can think of. The only thing that stopped them being sick was ginger. I don’t know how i t works or the best way to take it but I have heard others swearing by ginger.

Do you have a cure for seasickness that works for you?

I am lucky in that so far I have not been seasick so it is difficult to understand how others feel. I know once when crossing the channel two crew members who were suffering would quiet happily jumped in the sea if the feeling would have gone away. It was impossible to get them below to lie down or eat and drink.

The other part of my question is a bit more subjective but when someone is sea sick at what point would you consider heading for the nearest land?

Is there a point when you should concider calling for assistance to get them off the boat?
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Never been seasick, physically, but I can get queasy at the start of a trip if I go below. I discovered that Stugeron does the biz for me. Two before we start and then 1 every 8 hours. I dont get wonky with them and they are the answer for me, After the second dose I am acclimatised and dont need more.
Stu
 
Nostrodamus said:
I would have thought this quiet dangerous. Can you choke on your own vomit or do you have to be unconcious. Then again who am I to knock it if it works.
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Peeps who die, a lot of students, are that drunk that they vomit in their sleep and then choke on their vomit. Thats why peeps are advised to put a drunk to sleep in the recovery position so that if they do vomit, then they get rid of it. The danger is when they fall asleep on their backs. A recipe for disaster.
Stu
 
Also blind people do not get seasick,

Hmm, where is the evidence? I get queasy on a cross channel ferry. Fine on deck but not good below. At start of trips, if it is lumpy, then I can feel dodgy, again fine in the cockpit, dodgy making coffee below. So far, never actually been ill but have a suspicion that I could be if things were very rough. Will let you know if/when I become seasick!
 
Not all get over the mal de mer on a long voyage but some get used to it.
 
nauticalnomad said:
The only time they arent going to get seasick is when they have said to themself.
I no longer get seasick
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This is such a load of BS. in my experience the first people to get seasick are the ones that announce 'I never get seasick,'

There is a sea state out there for everyone, even you NN.
 
NauticalNomad, google "rapid sequence induction". We do these fairly routinely in anaesthetics...........and one of the most important and first things we are told (as the applier of cricoid pressure) is to remove pressure IMMEDIATELY if the patient vomits, otherwise there is a real risk of oesophageal rupture. You go right ahead and swallow your own, I certainly didn't consider it a few weeks back....sheesh.
 
xyachtdave said:
There is a sea state out there for everyone, even you NN.
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+1

I was perfectly happy playing in surf of any size bar 'too d*mn dangerous'. Even played on dumping beaches and paid the price by pole vaulting many times. Equally happy in several feet of swell or overfalls (practice ground). I was thoroughly sick on what must have been a less than six inch swell with plenty of time between the swells. I got towed in.


For what it's worth I was considered a four star + paddler out of five river and sea by the club with quals to suit.

I got humbled by what seemed next to nothing.
 
In the early 1970's the Newhaven-Dieppe car ferry spent 17 hours crossing from Dieppe. Winds of force 10 + set in from the West and South-West. ( It was blowing about 7 when we sailed)..Laden with HGV Spanish lorries, loaded with oranges in most cases. At one time she was down off the Isle of Wight almost, heading into the weather as her stabilisers had failed and weather like that on the beam would have meant real problems. Down off Selsey somewhere we went about and ran with the weather on her stern. The turn to port to round the Newhaven breakwater was made almost on her beam end.
The point of this yarn is that a young Spanish lorry driver had started being seasick almost within minutes of leaving Dieppe and in spite of great efforts by the Second Steward to force him to take liquids the poor bloke was dead on arrival at Newhaven. Previously healthy, it would seem that he suffered some kind of cardiac failure due to prolonged vomiting.
Ship was Falaise, I was one of her QM's..:(
 
xyachtdave said:
There is a sea state out there for everyone, even you NN.
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You might be right.

But you haven't met SWMBO who, as a girl, was on board the Sir Winston Churchill in Biscay in a storm. The kids and crew were all ill. The captain said that when he saw her wandering around eating a ham and pickle sandwich, he was finished.

Since then in over 20 years sailing in all conditions, she has never puked.
 
xyachtdave said:
This is such a load of BS. in my experience the first people to get seasick are the ones that announce 'I never get seasick,'

There is a sea state out there for everyone, even you NN.
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I took one colleague out a few years ago and she was sea sick in a F3. That worried me a bit as I was expecting a F7 on the way back, but I stuck her on the helm, whilst monitoring the inside of the sprayhood for leaks myself, and she was fine.

Next time she was seasick on the pontoon in a sheltered marina before she even got to the boat.
 
A nice greasy bacon sarnie covered in daddies sauce does the trick lol

Ive never had the problem. Spent 9 months at sea down South without once touching land. Not ill or sick once, even in those conditions.
Arriving home SWMBO had booked us on a fast cat crossing to Zeebrugge. Honked up all the way. Different motion !!!
 
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