sleeping on the boat

[wotayottie]

is bluddy marvelous isnt it? Must be like when your mummy rocked you in the cradle as a baby because you sleep like a baby on the boat.

Doesnt even stop me if the diesel is going.

Then back home and its tossing and turning and watching recordings of MotoGP or whatever at 3 am.

 

[michael_w]

Sleep like a baby - wet the bed and sick on the pillow

 

[mm42]

I work on a small wildlife cruise ship and cam back ashore Friday night after three weeks away, found it hard readjusting to a bed which isn't rolling with the motion of the ship.

 

[Mark-1]

I work on a small wildlife cruise ship

 

[johnalison]

I've never cracked the question of how to sleep while on passage. The best I can usually achieve is to doze for an hour or so, so that by early morning I tend to start hallucinating. Our worst passage was from the Isles of Scilly to Cork, when it blew hard from the wrong direction and we ended up motor-sailing into the waves through the night. I do like the sound of wind, or better still, rain, while tucked up in the warm in harbour, though.

 

[Spuddy]

I remember one ocean passage when it were that rough I had to pay a small boy to chuck buckets of water at the windows when I got back ashore so I could drop off. ( I think that's from Captains Courageous by Kipling)

 

[LadyInBed]

After five months on the boat I will be sleeping at home tonight. It will be interesting to see how I get on without​ being gently rocked.

 

[john_morris_uk]

I've never cracked the question of how to sleep while on passage. The best I can usually achieve is to doze for an hour or so, so that by early morning I tend to start hallucinating. Our worst passage was from the Isles of Scilly to Cork, when it blew hard from the wrong direction and we ended up motor-sailing into the waves through the night. I do like the sound of wind, or better still, rain, while tucked up in the warm in harbour, though.

Try a passage of a few weeks. You soon get used to sleeping while under way.

I annoy my wife by being able to fall asleep anywhere and at any time.

 

[Halcyon Yachts]

I've never cracked the question of how to sleep while on passage. The best I can usually achieve is to doze for an hour or so, so that by early morning I tend to start hallucinating. Our worst passage was from the Isles of Scilly to Cork, when it blew hard from the wrong direction and we ended up motor-sailing into the waves through the night. I do like the sound of wind, or better still, rain, while tucked up in the warm in harbour, though.

I sleep better at sea than I do at home!

Pete

 

[jordanbasset]

Always sleep better on the boat, last night in Kassiopi slept like a baby

 

[wotayottie]

I annoy my wife by being able to fall asleep anywhere and at any time.

Obviously the clear conscience of a godly man!

 

[mjcoon]

Obviously the clear conscience of a godly man!

Which would annoy any wife (hence the celibate Pope)!

Mike.

 

[[70521]]

I annoy my wife by being able to fall asleep anywhere and at any time.

I am sure that is part of your military training.

 

[Big Andy]

Try a passage of a few weeks. You soon get used to sleeping while under way.

I annoy my wife by being able to fall asleep anywhere and at any time.

I annoy my wife by being, end of.

 

[Poignard]

Obviously the clear conscience of a godly man!

Or Pickwickian Syndrome?

 

[RupertW]

I sleep well under passage on engine, but sailing I rest well but sleep more lightly as I find myself listening for sounds to work out what is happening - at least on the first watch off. By the second watch off I sleep very well.

At anchor it all depends - mostly I sleep very soundly and right through the night but if I'm nervous about the conditions or anchorage at all then I do get up every now and then to have a quick look around. Happens less often every year.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Try a passage of a few weeks. You soon get used to sleeping while under way.

I annoy my wife by being able to fall asleep anywhere and at any time.

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!).

 

[BelleSerene]

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!).

When I die I want to go in my sleep, quietly and untroubled. Like my Grandmother did.

Not panicking and screaming and shouting like her passengers did.

 

[Vega1447]

When I die I want to go in my sleep, quietly and untroubled. Like my Grandmother did.

Not panicking and screaming and shouting like her passengers did.

Zing!

 

[john_morris_uk]

I am sure that is part of your military training.

An outcome - they didn't train for it as I recall.