So how many people suffer from sea sickness.

 

Sailed across the Bay of Biscay and ive been sick for 3 days but today is the first day i have been able to do anything. wow i ener exprinced some so grusome and they is no getting away for it. the only thing to help is eat dry crackers and cheese tosties.

 

 

Eddie

I found that being drunk helped a lot when I crossed the Irish Sea recently. It was blowing a gale, and I reckon about 80% of the people on the boat spewed at some point. I think that due to the amount of booze I consumed my body just expected to be chucked about a bit lol

was in the RN and used to love it when it got really rough...never ever got seasick

Yeah the irish sea can be very bad. But im on a dry boat for 6 weeks, NO booze :cry:

been on the ferry and sea cat to france and belgium hundreds of times in rough seas where the ship been tossed about and everyone onboard chucking up, for some reason ot dosnt affect me.

 

maybe you was suffering from food poisening or something if it lasted 3 days?

 

:hurl: :hurl: :hurl: lol bring back memories

I wish i could say it was food poisening but it wasnt. Just about everyone on board felt fine. looks like im the unlucky one.

sorry to hear that eddie ive never experienced seasickness but been told its horrible

the rougher the better :)

Dont get sea sick.

But get air sick.

yup i get sea sicke and air sick. i got a phobia of sick so i dont go on either lol

I've worked at sea. Get mild sickness in much over storm force 10, but tend to be ok. Catamarans/WIGS/Seacats etc tend to make me feel a little bad though. They have a totally different motion to typical monohull vessels. They corksckrew through the water, so whilst you get pitching and rolling motions in a conventional ship, fastcraft tend to have a yawing action as well. So can be unsettling. Even experienced seafarers can be turned to jelly in much over a 3metre swell in one of those.

 

Biscay is a walk in the park. Sailed through there through storm force 10, which is pretty extreme even for Biscay. Only thing that makes you feel a little tender is not being able to get any sleep. Not just that, but trying to walk around a vessel when it's being hurled around takes a lot of energy, so as well as sleep deprevation, you use more energy in day to day living too.

 

Must say though, do quite enjoy a good storm as long as it's pretty short-lived. Sailing through the North Sea in mid-winter can be absolutely dreadful at times.

you want to watch mythbusters on discovery. they had 2 of the guys from there and strapped them indo a "sicksickness chair" and test loads of treatments, was quite funny

you want to watch mythbusters on discovery. they had 2 of the guys from there and strapped them indo a "sicksickness chair" and test loads of treatments, was quite funny

 

 

did it say what the best was for it.

well at least this trip now im use to the movement i will be fine. just got to put up with the heat in brazil, but that i can put up with.

 

i never suffer with air sickness, just sea sickness.

did it say what the best was for it.

well at least this trip now im use to the movement i will be fine. just got to put up with the heat in brazil, but that i can put up with.

 

i never suffer with air sickness, just sea sickness.

 

ginger tablets worked best even over the pills, tried it on the chair blindfolded and then on a boat. they seemed spot on, might be worth a try buddy

Try eating tinned pineapple if you are seasick - it tastes the same in either direction

I like eating sloppy type foods infront of people who seriously get seasick.

 

I remember this one time, was crossing the channel from Plymouth to Roscoff on an old Brittany Ferries' ship (no longer in service) called the 'Quiberon'. Anyway, to give you an idea of how big the waves and wash were, the restaurant on this was on the upper aft area.... You can see on this photo.

 

 

Anyway this was mid-November I think, about 6 years ago. Can't remember the wind force, think it was about 8 or 9, so pretty strong. The waves were coming up over the windows in the aforementioned restaurant. Ship was pretty empty at that time of the year. So went to have some food about an hour out off Plymouth Sound. I must have been the only passenger there, ship was rolling heavily and I'm surprised that the food outlets were still serving. Quite dangerous in those seas. So I had a lasagne, really nice sloppy one followed by a chocolate gateaux thing afterwards. Now, aft of this restaurant was a small reclining seat area. Passengers had to walk past the restaurant area to get to the toilets which were amid ships on this deck. 3 of them after taking one look at me (I assure you, it wasn't because of my face), said, 'how can he eat when it's like this' and proceeded to throw up all over the area infront of me. Was absolutely hilarious. With that, one of the small catering trolleys carrying plate broke free from it's little holding lashing on the wall and slammed into one of the central spars smashing plates all over the place. Was chaos.....but highly amusing.

 

I just sat there with a huge grin on my face trying not to laugh while I finished my food.

I was in the RN, but not like the faggots on the surface,(retro620ti :D ...only joking) in the submarines, only time you felt the sea really was at periscope depth or on the surface, worst place is the Irish sea, fook that gets rough.

 

Neil