Seasickness

[Beachcomberz]

Hi all,
I'm brand new to the forum although I've been snipping for months.

For whatever reason I'm good on the out on the water slamming thru waves etc BUT as soon as we anchor and I slip below i inevitably get the feeling of sea sickness. Even if it's been tied up for weeks and I drive to it just the sway or unpredictability of it gets me queezy.
Anyone else? Do i suffer from anchor sickness? tips?
Cheers

[hobopacket]

I think not having the horizon to look at is making you sick.

Try popping out on deck every 10 mins for a few mins and see if that helps. If it does, you are getting motion sickness.

[barnakiel]

Your trips are simply too short perhaps.

How many of your outings were longer than 3 days?

You are 100% correct there is a kind of seasickness that starts when you are done with the trip. But it does not sound like you suffer from this variety. Much more likely you get plain seasickness with delayed onset. I have the same. Disappears after the first 3 maybe 4 days at sea.

Brighten up. You are fine. Sail more.

Cheers,
barnakiel

[Beachcomberz]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

Your trips are simply too short perhaps.

How many of your outings were longer than 3 days?

You are 100% correct there is a kind of seasickness that starts when you are done with the trip. But it does not sound like you suffer from this variety. Much more likely you get plain seasickness with delayed onset. I have the same. Disappears after the first 3 maybe 4 days at sea.

Brighten up. You are fine. Sail more.

Cheers,
barnakiel

Thanks for the diagnosis! Yes. short trips thus far.

[double u]

...somewhere I read that nobody, absolutely nobody left the NASA centrifuge without puking...

[thomm225]

My "cruises" are usually always short so on the first day I will usually take half a dramamine or so and that usually does the trick for the remainder of the trip.

I discovered that it worked a few years ago., I was about to blow chunks after being in some pretty rough water for a few hours but absolutely had to keep steering as I was sailing singlehanded and the winds were by then nearing 30 mph

I remembered I had some dramamine I had bought and tried it. (I could reach it from the cockpit) It worked immediately so I took a second one since it said two would cover you for the entire day

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This was the early part of that day with winds then nearing 22 knots or so but they would soon increase and heaving too and being seasick would have been really bad plus I would have been blow into shallow water and then beached. I only had a mile or so of "sea room" to port and 40 miles yet to go

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