On Apr 24, 3:19 am, "Roger Long" wrote:

I wonder how much of a role the acclimatization of many thousands of miles
to the motion and lifestyle played.

Roger Long

Two words, "sea legs"

Id say everything. Typically when I was doing marathon "voyages" I
spend the first day puking, the second dry heaving and horrizonal, the
third day beginging to recover and rehydrate. However, there is a
whole diffrent set of musscles in use at sea. It took me 30-50 days at
sea before getting 100% again. If one thinks someone is an
"experienced skipper" with "thousands of miles under their keel" my
bet is they never spent more than 3-15 days at sea at any one time. In
other words a very experenced daysailor. Something happens to a body
after the 4th week on a boat. I think its called adapting or
"acclimatization." The problme I had after 90 plus days at sea was
back on the dock................. urp

Bob