Don White wrote:

Scotty wrote:
I have a non-boating friend who's going on a cruise next
week. He's concerned about seasickness. I told him ginger is
a good cure. I bought him a box of Ginger Snaps ( more for a
joke ). Should he start munching on these before he steps
onboard or wait till / if he feels bad?

SBV

In addition to ginger snaps, you can use ginger candy (from someplace
like the Vermont Country Store), and my mom used to swear by Canada
Dry Ginger Ale, which she said was the only REAL ginger ale - don't
know if it still is. You have to look at the ingredients to see if it
has ginger in it.

My husband swears by saltines (which he ate when he was on a destroyer
in rough seas). I like hot tea with it.


I'd start munching just before I left.
If he's on a big cruise ship, I doubt he's be feeling the same way he
would on a 33 foot sailboat with 5 foot swells on an aft quarter that
might make you pitch, yaw & roll.

There are people that get sick even on the big cruise ships - the
motion on them is more unpleasant than on a sailboat IMHO. I lot of
roll - more than what we get especially if we put up a balancing sail.
Too much motion to fill the pool (it would all splash out) and
sometimes the forward elevators don't work. If they use stabilizers
(when they have them) it slows them down.

It doesn't bother me particularly, although if it is really rough I
can't read without getting a headache, and I get a little sleepy. But
there are a lot of people who get room service, or don't eat at all.
However, the cruise ship doctor will have a patch for anyone who needs
it.