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To: amorphous
He was all over the boat while I was staring at placards inside the cabin, trying not to upchuck. lol

Here's some advice regarding that for when/if you get seasick the next time out...being INSIDE a moving boat is the worst place to be. Your inner ear senses movement but you cannot orientate on a horizon. That is what causes the nauseous feeling. You'd do better sitting in the cockpit/flybridge outside while the boat is moving.

Someone said upthread that there are a lot of beautiful places you can't get to on a boat. Well, yeah, but there are plenty of beautiful places that you can ONLY get to on a boat! Lucky is the man who can do both!

154 posted on 03/11/2019 7:34:48 PM PDT by boatbums (Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy he saved us.)
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To: boatbums

With a boat you can skip the train to Hawaii.


155 posted on 03/11/2019 7:37:54 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (Progressives need to get over their love affair with abortion.)
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To: boatbums
Here's some advice regarding that for when/if you get seasick the next time out...being INSIDE a moving boat is the worst place to be.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work in my case. I seem to have a peculiar affliction for a certain type of motion that only occurs on the ocean, or a body of water connected to it, such as a large bay. I'm not sure what it is, but I think it has something to do with the ocean's swells - the heaving motion.

As long as a boat is moving fast, 12+ knots or so, I don't experience any motion sickness, regardless of wave height. When the boat slows, or stops I get sick.

I'm a pilot and have no issues with motion sickness while flying, even if performing maneuvers that would make most queasy. Stick me in or on a body of saltwater (freshwater lakes don't bother me) and I get nauseous every single time. I have tried to overcome it dozens of times, but nothing has worked so far.

I think when my ancestors came to America, many centuries ago, the trip must have been so horrible, the memory of that experience somehow embedded itself into my genes! lol

161 posted on 03/11/2019 11:08:24 PM PDT by amorphous
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