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Ok any of you Ironworkers get sick while travelling? I just found out to my dismay and embarrassment that I get seasick :( It was supposed to be a lazy couple of days sailing a yacht down the coast of NSW 15knot winds and 1 1/2 metre swells but for the last 6 or so hours I spent throwing up every half hour! I just wanted the world to disappear. I've been sailing before and never had any worries nor do I suffer when flying or in cars.

So any tips on avoiding being sick? Do the tablets really work? Have you had any bad experiences sailing or in planes or cars? Why did my feeling sick only start when I went below deck?

What works? Eat a large and heavy meal, drink a TON of booze and water, then do some exercise. After you puke your guts out, THEN go onto the boat. You won't have anything to puke up.

Bah, the last time i ran into someone who got seasick, it directly affected me. We were taking a ferry on a oneday trip from Fuengirola (Spain) to Morocco, and i was chilling at the lower deck, having a nice cold beer, while my arm was hanging down one of them round windows that ships have (don't know the English word for "patrijspoort", excuse my ignorance :D ). One level above where i was sitting someone got seasick, and threw up overboard, and a few chunks of what used to be his breakfast landed right on my arm, cheers.

Never had seasickness myself and i travelled quite a few times by boat, also in stormy weather, between France and England. Thank goodness, because i've seen people almost turn green from sickness.

[ 10-11-2005, 08:23 PM: Message edited by: johnny ]

Never been car/air/seasick, but have been drunk a time or 3. Just cause there's nothing left doesn't mean you're going to stop. And those are the ones that really hurt...

Porthole. Now we've both learned a new word.

Oh well, at least it didn't land in your beer ;)

Oh well, at least it didn't land in your beer ;) </font>[/QUOTE]Are you kidding ? I would have made him walk the plank if it landed in my beer. There are limits you know. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

<font color=ggffcc>Two reasons.
1.) You lost the vision of the horizontal plane, therefore you lost your equilibrium.
2.) Then the onset of claustrophobia put, err, removed the icing from the cake, along with the contents of your stomach.

I have never gotten that bad, thou I did want to releive myself once on a Reserve pilot who thought it funny to vertical drop 300ft with a 9 man fully loaded team in the cargo section of a Blackhawk! </font>


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Never been car/air/seasick, but have been drunk a time or 3. Just cause there's nothing left doesn't mean you're going to stop. And those are the ones that really hurt... </font>[/QUOTE]As Vulcanrider mentioned pukeing up with nothing in your stomach is the one that really hurts. Your body just contorts into a twisted feak show trying to expunge something that is not there (to much detail?) Then you become dehydrated and....

P.S. hey Vulcanrider you have changed your sig :D

P.p.s. LOL Johnny :D

You might look for seasickness bands, Wellard. They're wrist bands with a plastic insert (button, really) that hits a pressure point in the wrist and supposedly reduces the need to throw up.

They're also apparently useful for pregnant women, to offset morning sickness. According to my wife, however, she still felt nauseous, so she's not convinced they worked.

All I can say is that she went from puking regularly to puking every few days.... you make the call.

You should be able to find them in any marine store... at least, in the States. Don't know about Oz...