sleeping on the boat

[john_morris_uk]

Obviously the clear conscience of a godly man!

Or a person with no sense of guilt...!

 

[armchairsailor]

My wife is the original Dormouse from Alice in Wonderland! She routinely goes to sleep sitting in the car (when I'm driving, I hasten to say!).

My wife used to fall asleep on the back of a motorbike! There's balance for you.

 

[LadyInBed]

I am sure that is part of your military training.

My military training taught me to sleep with one eye open

 

[john_morris_uk]

My military training taught me to sleep with one eye open

I can't do that, but I do go from fast asleep to up and ready to move in and instant. One of the few minor irritations in our marriage is that someone else likes to set a series of alarms at fifteen minute intervals to give her a chance to wake up slowly. I'm wide awake as soon as the first alarm goes off.... thinking 'I could have had another thirty minutes sleep!'

 

[Cheery]

My first OC said that you should sleep as soon as you could, even if it were only for 10 minutes. Since then I have been able to do just that. As for the alarm thing, that is the same in our house, except I am generally awake, if not up and about already. I have only used an alarm clock maybe 20 or 30 times in my life. That's not a good thing by the way, it means I sleep terribly and wake early or if a passing mouse farts!

 

[DownWest]

I. I'm wide awake as soon as the first alarm goes off.... thinking 'I could have had another thirty minutes sleep!'

I think about the time I have set the alarm and find I wake up just before it sounds. Must be something about the gears in the device...

On the boat.. "I rhink I can hear surf" got me up pretty quickly.. As I rocketed up the companion way, I was thinking No way, we are far off any land, unless I had really mucked up the nav. It was whales venting, all around us when dawn broke a bit later.

 

[zoidberg]

The fastest way to get the skipper out of his bunk and up on deck in an instant is for the on-deck watch to whisper "D'you think we should tell the skipper?"

 

[RobbieW]

...One of the few minor irritations in our marriage is that someone else likes to set a series of alarms at fifteen minute intervals to give her a chance to wake up slowly. I'm wide awake as soon as the first alarm goes off.... thinking 'I could have had another thirty minutes sleep!'

+1000

 

[Sybarite]

I can catnap easily.

A few mornings ago I was up at 3am at Camaret so that I could catch slack water at the Raz de Sein. Easily passed.

However on the long crossing of the Bay of Audierne I catnapped in the main hatchway and had an egg timer which I set to ring every 15 minutes. Invariably I woke each time just before it rang. The irony was that I didn't meet any other boats the whole way across.

I got into Concarneau after 14 hours and am now back in my home port of Locmiquélic.

 

[Toutvabien]

I can't do that, but I do go from fast asleep to up and ready to move in and instant. One of the few minor irritations in our marriage is that someone else likes to set a series of alarms at fifteen minute intervals to give her a chance to wake up slowly. I'm wide awake as soon as the first alarm goes off.... thinking 'I could have had another thirty minutes sleep!'

I know that one well, there is a morning ritual at Chez Nous involving three consecutive alarms, two of which have snooze functions that are utilised, before madam rises refreshed and ready to take on the world.

My own worst sleeping on passage crime was whilst crossing the Atlantic 3 handed, I was on watch and napping in the cockpit with the traditional egg timer waking me up every 15 mins. I was due to hand over to my wife at 6am and at 9am she woke me to thank me for doing her watch for her.

 

[Mister E]

I sleep like a log on our boat with a proper Queen sized mattress. Ahh bliss.

If I need to get up to check things I just sleep in the saloon with the dog. On bloody good alarm clock every few hours licking the top of my head.

 

[Fluvial66]

Tonight will be my 123rd consecutive night sleeping on the boat, with 1 more to
go before heading home.
I love sleeping on it, the gentle rocking motion and the cosyness.
I always have trouble adjusting when back in my own bedroom.

 

[John 32i]

Lucky you....I reckon we have only managed a dozen or so nights this year

 

[pagoda]

Lucky you....I reckon we have only managed a dozen or so nights this year

We've only done about 90-100 nights this year. However like many responders I can agree with the "sleeping well" theme. Indeed i have managed to sleep through several nights of >35Kts on anchor while my wife just thought too much about the noise! Engine noise isn't too much of a problem- steady background! In the not too distant past I found it easy to fall asleep on helicopters travelling offshore- ?pram syndrome?
Being ashore is no problem.. though quite not as easy as afloat!

 

[LadyInBed]

Even at anchor?
I do!

 

[horatio_nelson]

I always wear earplugs when sleeping on a boat, absolutely essential. Too many strange noises, especially underway.

Sleeping on a hard sailed race boat is horrific - no insulation or dampening of sounds, getting launched out of your bunk when slamming upwind, winch noise and lines banging. Bloody awful.

Still always get off the boat going "that was BRILLIANT!!" though

 

[wotayottie]

My wife is the original Dormouse from Alice in Wonderland! She routinely goes to sleep sitting in the car (when I'm driving, I hasten to say!).

I would have thought that very normal. My wife drives all the time and I sleep in the passenger seat. Mind you I sleep on planes , on trains and even in airport lounges. As well as the chair in front of the TV.:ambivalence:

 

[wotayottie]

Or a person with no sense of guilt...!

How do you square that with Protestantism? Or has the guilt gone along with the work ethic and thrift? Not I hasten to add in a personal sense but from the religion.