Seasickness

Sounds plausible... wasn't it during Louis Vuitton Act in Marseille that some ACC's got blown of their supports?

 

Yes, It was in Marseille that the race boats got blown off their supports.

My apartment sits up the hill from that place. The 4 th floor has its back wall and a small balcony facing the bay. When a hard mistral blows we feel it. Fortunantly, the building is stone and doesn't roll. smile

 

Try TOFU for new cure for seasick...... old asian sailor take plenty of it.... else say something wrong and get batton on the head friend.....

 

Bergalia, I had never been seasick till the day a friend asked me to be “the cook” in a small photographic expedition to take photos at some rare sea birds. The boat was very smelly because we carried some drums with fish oil that was meant to attract the birds. The smell of the oil , plus the smell of the cooking, the movement of the boat, the enclosed space, all put together started to make me fell…well, I understood that if I persisted I would be seasick, so I called the guy that was there to help with the sails (it was a 18 m two mast boat) and asked him to go to the kitchen and work under my guidance, cause I needed fresh air. He has done as required but not without making a lot of fun of me (he was an Olympic sailor and a man of vast experience and never had been seasick). Five minutes later, the new cook, called me (pale faced) and asked me to change places. We finished the cooking doing five minutes turns at the kitchen…. So I can say I understand your cook.

I know two cures for seasickness : Fear, while doing something important to the safety of the boat ( adrenalin cures almost anything) and Tannenblut.

Tannenblut is an old natural medicine German product, a little bit like Vick, but stronger and with a nicer scent. Sorry guys, this is everything but scientific, but, as I have explained previously and as Cyclopes had said, seasickness has something to do with odors. I have sometimes a sinusitis problem and I have found that in those occasions, even if I don’t get seasick I can feel uncomfortable. I have found that in those circumstances if I put a little bit of Tannenblut over my upper lip, I will be fine in a very short time.

My youngest son (12) really gets seasick and really hates the Tannenblut smell, but he has tried it and it has worked for him too (I know that he is really bad when he wants the stuff). Later we have found that it worked for all the family.

I feel a little bit stupid talking about this crazy thing (Tannenblut strong smell on the nose)…I am only doing it, because seasickness is really disagreeable, and this odd treatment had really worked for us…. and it is possible that it will also work for someone else.

 

Hey Welly from what I remember of your part of the world you don't get seasickness! It's either flat calm and lovely OR your hanging on for sheer life 'cos it's blowing fit to bust and your so damn scared you ain't got time to think let alone be sick!
(Funnily enough I still have some fond memories of it - weird I tell ee weird!)

 

hey safewalrus....... I have a cook that keep pissing into the soup pot while I am not looking............. maybe that the real cure in Asia........ would like to invite u to try sometime

 

Tannenblut

Tannenblut? There may be something of value in this for me. My sense of smell is very acute.

Will try to locate this here in france. Vicks Vapor Rub? will also try this next time out. ... may make everybody else sick however.

 

A quick massage on the head and bottom would induce heavy eye lid sydrome and cause seducetive behavior...... to develope..... causing heavy sleep without knowing we are sick....... happen everytime with the neighbours' girl.

sometime u pay to get well sometime u dont......... if u pay i rather be sick........

 

Welly, depends what your sick of! Don't know about this massage stuff tho' knowing my luck I would receive a quick jab to a certain tender part of my anatomy from said 'girl next door' - there again I'd be in so much pain I wouldn't notice if I ws sick or not so I guess it works!

Just as well I don't get sick tho' (unless it's following Bergalia's libation system but that's another kind of sickness)

 

dramamine or ginger root ..sometimes alkaseltser....................................

 

I get seasick even watch shows on robinson family stranded on a foreign bietch...... opps me no good in english...... me no harm....... just acute Threadsick....................

 

I have loaded up all the provisions I need in the articulated lorry out back and I am ready to set off for my boat now. I have everything I need :- dramamine/ginger root, alkaseltser, girl next door (although she wasn't very happy about it when I kidnapped her out of her bed at 5am and I have subsequently have had to tie her up), tannenblut, "special" soup, tofu, whisky (making up most of the load and I can actually say it IS for medicinal reasons), vitamin C or ascorbic acid, anti-histamine tablets, Vic, bacon rind, string, red wine and some asprin.
I have memorised all the ways in which the items have to be used and I will report back to eveyone on which works as soon as possible..........

 

Paul, with that lot are you sure there will be room for you on the boat? Still I guess that method WILL work, send the boat out on it's own (with the girl next door!)

 

It's also a major function of the boats comfort factor in otherwords her displacement to her waterplane area and of course her overall size. I will not sail ocean in anything less than 40 feet after several disasterously miserable trips delivering small boats around the world.
A husky 50 footer with good roll inertia and a healthy displacment is so much more comfortable and less nausea generating. So often I see the light boats staying in port waiting and waiting for the ideal weather pattern but still turn back as the seas were too rough from the northern storm centres 4days back.

Cheers
Jim

 

Jim - Vessels large may venture more but little boats should keep to shore .....Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790