Why am I swaying around ON LAND

[Happy1]

I was just wandering if it is normal to feel you are swaying all over the place when you are on land. Had a shower this morning and had to keep hold of the walls to stop falling over. I think it may have something to do with being on the boat the last couple of days, is this normal and if it is how long does it last?

Does it ever stop or am I doomed to be in this swirly life as long as I keep the boat, or does having a few drinks counteract this?

I wait in anticiptation of some helpful replies, cheers.

Oh! and here is a picture of 'Memory Maker' c/o kind Sun-Coast

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[DepSol]

Its called Land Sickness.

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[hlb]

Hoh yes it's quite normal. Used to laugh at everyone in the pub on the Broads. all swaying in unison. Funny thing is, it seems worse on flat calm sea, than when it's rough.

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[snooks]

Mussels

Quite normal...your mussels get used to conteracting the movment of the boat...'cept, when yer on dry land no one tells them so they keep trying to conteract the movment, even tho there isn't any...a few pints helps, till you go to the smallest room

It will wear off...dunno when tho :-D

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[Renegade_Master]

Re: Mussels

Mussels whats crustaceons got to do with it "muscles"

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[snooks]

Re: Muscles

Muscles...thats them

Mussels can have a nasty effect on you aswell

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[duncan]

looks like a nice Spanish marina - was all the rest of the story a hoax?

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[Happy1]

That was the skill of Sun-Coast with his digi camera at about 1.30pm, I think we had one of the best days of the year so far on Sunday. I have never seen Chatham look so nice even the mud banks looked pretty /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[aztec]

explain this then...

last weekend (not been on the boat for a couple of weeks) suddenly aware of the aforementioned involuntary swaying, noticeable too it was... made me stumble twice... and seemed to be passed onto others in the pub..... however after some time the swaying seemed to be subdued... and it was noticed that my head was now taking on a more pronounced "pink" tinge... and an amber liquid was making my shirt wet.... apparently the only cure was a cold kebab (why cold i don't know) to be eaten along with half the bag it come's in.

can you explain the symtoms and how this equates to boating?

cheers, steve.



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[HowardB]

So you ARE for real then!!

You've not met this then? So you are not some old sea salted veteran posing conundrums with the insight of pure innocense then. No old sea dog would think to mention this symptom of time spent on water. Your ears and their semi-circular canals have been sending your brain messages that you're moving, for the last 3 days (and beautiful days they were too). Your joint position sensors in your limbs and neck have been doing the same, but your poor old (?) brain has gotten fed up processing all this data, given up, and started to ignore the incoming data, so giving you your "sea legs". Now that you're on the dry, your brain has got used to making up its own version of movements, ignoring your ears and limbs, or only selectively recieving some info from these magnificent sensors, and the result is that you sway to counterract the messages your brain THINKS it's recieving. In the dark you may well fall over, cos your eyes aren't modifying the data with the essential "THIS WAY UP" data!

Now you know why sailors in port fall over, It's NOTHING to do with the 10 pints consumed, it's their brain struggling with gravity pulling straight downwards, and not at a random angle! Poor maligned lot.

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[Col]

We could always re-post THAT photo!!! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[aztec]

ok point taken... i'll shut up!

see ya soon.

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[Forbsie]

You mean THIS one?

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