The wrong things to eat for a sailing trip
- Thread starter Garold
- Start date
Daydream believer
Well-Known Member
Dead right!!
As a breakfast on a long trip I use Be Well's freeze dried porridge with strawberries for slow energy release
Under way it is sarnies pre made plus drink loads of water plus digestive biscuits as nibbles
I am seasick on 25% of trips but have found the electronic watch has reduced this from what used to be 75% of trips
Tomorrow i am sailing to Holland & fully expect to start chucking up a few hours in to the trip
I used to feel like just slipping over the side but now it is just a necessary evil to be dealt with as sensibly as possible
Note immediately one vomits there is a short period of improvement. At this stage go below for a pee. You will soon be sick again but that is the time to get rid of an uncomfortable feeling if needs be
Last edited:
langstonelayabout
Well-Known Member
+1 Never again the lamb vindaloo with a couple of 1664s and a half bottle of grouse once back of the boat. NEVER, EVER again.
The full English is a good one as it is actually a good, nutritious meal as long as you make sure it isn't greasy.
PhillM
Well-Known Member
Problem is that at least 2 of these are everyday normality. If I didn't break 1 and 4 I'd never leave the pontoon. In fact sleeping on board often causes 1 and boat handling in the marina often causes 4!
Btw I agree with everything you posted.
ronsurf
Well-Known Member
I've never suffered seasickness, but I'm told that the worse thing about it is that you don't actually die.
I was lucky to have a tour of the Padstow lifeboat once. As we sat in the rescue cabin, I commented that it was quite spartan. "Funny enough" replied the Coxswain, "We've never had any complaints"
"Do you have any food?" I ask
Coxswain reaches into a locker: "Chicken Pot Noodle" he says
"Right. What do you have for vegetarians?"
Coxswain reaches into a locker: "Chicken Pot Noodle!" he says.
So there you go. Pot Noodle as endorsed by the RNLI. :-/
I was lucky to have a tour of the Padstow lifeboat once. As we sat in the rescue cabin, I commented that it was quite spartan. "Funny enough" replied the Coxswain, "We've never had any complaints"
"Do you have any food?" I ask
Coxswain reaches into a locker: "Chicken Pot Noodle" he says
"Right. What do you have for vegetarians?"
Coxswain reaches into a locker: "Chicken Pot Noodle!" he says.
So there you go. Pot Noodle as endorsed by the RNLI. :-/
TeamSpirit
Well-Known Member
Taste the difference porridge with ginger, luvly; bacon and egg butties with hp, tuna and sweetcorn rolls, pasta salads, fruit or ginger cake, not poodles are ok ish.
Ones I avoid, cold pasties (meat or cheese), the night before hot curries, fried rice, olives, corned beef, coleslaw anything with garlic.
Ones I avoid, cold pasties (meat or cheese), the night before hot curries, fried rice, olives, corned beef, coleslaw anything with garlic.
alan_d
Well-Known Member
And your evidence for that is ...?
I'm sure the military would be interested, it might stop them spending money researching the causes and treatment of motion sickness.
LittleSister
Well-Known Member
What a great idea! I'm sold.
onesea
Well-Known Member
Where did I mention steel box's without windows? That is a different story, same as life-rafts and ships life-rafts, these places might as well be designed to disorientate. Limityed fresh air no view of horizon etc etc oh and the feeling of being trapped.
Most children grow up in and out of cars now days, people learn what makes them travel sick and what does not. Then they can avoid that situation, side facing seats in my Landy often start people feeling queeezy after 20-30 mins, probably cause they are not used to it and its bouncy.
I can remember as a kid people asking me about travel sickness? Now days its just not a question you ask and fewer children are... Maybe we are just conditioned to it from birth?
maybh1
Well-Known Member
Oranges are the only thing I have found that taste the same coming up as they did going down
A whole banana with a slice of Mothers Pride wrapped around it (or a willie sandwich as it is affectionately known on our boat) keeps me going en route with sparkling water to drink
I have never eaten a pot noodle since I felt sick in the Alderney Race 20 years ago and every one else on board was eating them. The smell was horrendous and even a sniff of a Pot Noodle takes me back to that day.
May
Xx
A whole banana with a slice of Mothers Pride wrapped around it (or a willie sandwich as it is affectionately known on our boat) keeps me going en route with sparkling water to drink
I have never eaten a pot noodle since I felt sick in the Alderney Race 20 years ago and every one else on board was eating them. The smell was horrendous and even a sniff of a Pot Noodle takes me back to that day.
May
Xx
Tricia
Well-Known Member
I get car sick always have. My grandmother used to make me eat dry toast and drink really weak milky tea before a car journey, bleagh. Guaranteed to make you throw up. I also get sea sick but only for the first day or so or when it's rough and even then it wears of if it stays rough for long enough. Steering the boat helps, and ginger biscuits with lots of lovely strong tea, preferably not made by me.
I make sure Rob has some 'ready' meals for the times i get too seasick to cook. You know the type of thing baked beans, bread, frankfurters so he can throw something together if need be. If I'm organized enough, I might make a big pot of pasta or stew for the first day or so, that way I don't have to cook.
Don't really not eat anything the night before we leave although I do try to get an early night with minimal alcohol.
I make sure Rob has some 'ready' meals for the times i get too seasick to cook. You know the type of thing baked beans, bread, frankfurters so he can throw something together if need be. If I'm organized enough, I might make a big pot of pasta or stew for the first day or so, that way I don't have to cook.
Don't really not eat anything the night before we leave although I do try to get an early night with minimal alcohol.
SamanthaTabs
Well-Known Member
Same as Tricia really. Seasick (more a feeling of total exhaustion, am quite useless) on the first sail after being in a marina for the winter. So a couple of meals precooked. Light meal the night before and fruit energy snacks for the trip.
Whizz or finely chop equal quantities of dried fruit (add some stem ginger), a couple of spoons of coconut oil, shape into smallish nuggets and roll in sesame seeds. Slow releasing carb and tasty!
Curry, creamy sauces or very rich food has resulted in a fail..
Whizz or finely chop equal quantities of dried fruit (add some stem ginger), a couple of spoons of coconut oil, shape into smallish nuggets and roll in sesame seeds. Slow releasing carb and tasty!
Curry, creamy sauces or very rich food has resulted in a fail..
Paddingtonbear
Well-Known Member
+1 for anything with ginger, magic.
WestWittering
Well-Known Member
As a very practical Essex girl, I would like to add that if you are caught out by sea-sickness, a thinsulate-lined beanie hat is virtually leak proof. It will mould to the shape of your lap, is easy to hold and fairly discrete (unless your mate decides to take it from you & show the contents to all onboard)...
That was a brilliant dive trip
but the second time I suffered from Stage III sickness..
Now I limit breakfast to porridge, toast & marmalade or scrambled eggs..
Di
That was a brilliant dive trip
but the second time I suffered from Stage III sickness..Now I limit breakfast to porridge, toast & marmalade or scrambled eggs..
Di
michael_w
Well-Known Member
Porridge. Yuk! The world's only grey food. Many years of having to eat the muck at school put me off for life. The porridge was so gelatinous with careful pouring of the milk you could get the mass to detach from the bowl and float about like an iceberg.
Going to a wedding is not good preparation for an offshore passage.
Going to a wedding is not good preparation for an offshore passage.
Bosun Higgs
N/A
I should have added a fifth:
5/ never allow yourself to get cold at sea.
Quite why that leads to nausea I dont know, but it does.
Angele
Well-Known Member
I have only been seasick on my boat once. That was between Alderney and Guernsey. The previous night (in Guernsey) had been a heavy one. A rich meal with plenty of seafood and garlic, washed down with lots of wine. Back on board we had a night cap or two, until the whisky bottle was empty. Went to bed, forgetting to take a glass of water with me for rehydration purposes.
We had had a long day the previous day. Early start from Hamble. Then late to bed. Up early the next morning after the heavy night (so, barely 5 hours of sleep) to catch the tide through the Swinge. Initially, thick fog in the harbour (adding to stress levels) but then it lifted so off we went. Fearing it might return, I gave the command, "no time for breakfast, we must be off."
It wasn't rough, but there was a very big swell. The sort that left your stomach in your mouth.
Good job I had a decent crew who knew what they were doing and who were unphased by skipper and one other crew member member emptying the contents of their stomach over the stern. I was only vaguely back in command when we got within sight of Tautenay, when I knew there was an end to the torture in sight.
I am sure that in future I will break one or more of Bosun's rules. Never again will I break all four in one go.
Beadle
Well-Known Member
I see nothing wrong with that
Onion Bajhi
Lamb Madras & 3 chapattis is my standard pre-cruise diet.
On one occasion on passage from Hartlepool to Inverness we stopped off in Peterhead for a mid-passage curry
Never chundered yet on a curry - much better than all the mamby-pamby baby pap
OGITD
Well-Known Member
I bet the RYA have never taught this aspect of passage planning:
But! .... it's a plus for any sailing I can think of ......
But! .... it's a plus for any sailing I can think of ......
John 32i
Well-Known Member
Always remember missing out on some great Cornish pasties whilst sailing with 4 pals in Falmouth coz I wasn't feeling too great.....love Cornish pasties too!!!!