Sea Sick

Evil Phil

How do I get rid of this curse? There must be some cure.

Mick L

Lean overboard, think of all the beer you had the night before and whatever the hell you ate when you came out of the pub drunk.....

.... a minute or two and a wipe of the mouth later and you're good to go :cool:



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Speaking from recent experience, the only thing to do after staring at the horizon is to get off the boat. either into the water with a tank on your back or back onshorem whichever is handiest.

Redshift

The best thing you can do for sea sickness is go up on deck and keep your eyes on the horizon as much as possible. Sea sickness is caused because your inner ear which controls balance can detect the pitching and rolling of the boat but your eyes see the boat which is moving relative to you and so the environment appears static resulting in conflicting information being fed to your brain and that makes you feel sick. Staring at the horizon has the effect of syncronizing the information from your inner ear and your eyes.

Cheers
Ryan

Pepe LeFrits

There are also pills to help.

ka

As well as the physiological causes (middle ear and balance) there is a huge psychological cause of sea sickness (or motionsickness)

Sea sickness tablets can help - so can avoiding the fumes from the boats engine. Acupressure bands or hypnotherapy is an alternative treatment.

Perseverence though....

mikep

Fresh ginger is supposed to be good.
I dunno how true this is but apparently on Asgard they did a trial where half the crew had ginger and the other half didn't,the half with ginger had no sickness whereas most of the others did!!

Ba$tard

I had it real bad once on a competent crew long weekend on the way west out of Kinsale in advancing seas.

Our Skipper advised us, if we feel sick, do something, anything to keep your mind occupied. I got sick and felt miserable and still bad.(eat an orange..even though all it does is make the taste and smell that bit easier to cope with next time you get sick) My turn on helm, 2-3 mins into helming I felt pefect.

Also....if you are prone to seasickness, DONT GO DOWN BELOW (into the cabin)! Makes it all the worse.

I know yachtmasters with thousands of seamiles who still get seasick....

HTH... James