Seasickness

[festinalente]

Personally I find oatcakes are good and am usually fine between moments of hugging the bucket..

[philip-m]

Ben - what i would be interested in is how long the feeling of nausea takes to come on ( my reading suggests it takes an couple of hours - ie it is a process requiring lengthy exposure rather than being an instantaneous reaction ) - this has implications for how long before a passage one should eat - also what kind of motion - ie do you prefer a beab sea , a quartering sea - a run , a beat ?

[RobbieW]

I find that a quartering sea makes me feel queasy, though not generally actually sick - that takes food. I think its the combination of roll, pitch & yaw thats upsets my balance, and I think the effect is related to how long I've been at sea. In '05 I went from Lagos (Algarve) to the Canaries, from the beginning we had quartering seas from two directions, E & NW, whilst travelling S. I was queasy from the start which slowly diminished until we tacked after 36 hrs then the feeling kicked in again for another 12-24 hrs.

I can take being down below for reasonable periods in most conditions, though not reading small print in a dieselly bilge as Paul Heiney claims Scopalomine helps him do in the current Yotting Monthly!

Food can exacerbate seasickness for me, particularily if its something that can make me nauseous anyway. Potato can do that, as can fat on meat if not well cooked; I'm safer eating bread/biscuit/chocolate/pasta/rice type foods when queasy than I am trying 'meat & two veg'.