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HK

wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:37:50 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Some guys never get the hang of it and they carry buckets.
I really feel for boaters who still get seasick.
Just seems to me from Navy experience that the vast majority of people
get past it. Personally, it never affected me.
But maybe because I got carsick a couple times when I was a kid.
Built up some immunity.
Except for the new guys hanging over the rails shortly after leaving
port, I never knew a sailor who suffered from seasickness.
Not to say most everybody didn't get a bit queasy when knocked around
for a few days in heavy seas.

I was on a November-December "Bravo" (55 days in the North Atlantic)
with a kid that never got over it. The only time he was close to
comfortable was at the helm. That kept his eyes on the horizon.
We only had 3 days on the whole cruise that we could really walk
around on deck. Most of the time there was blue water crashing over
it. They let this kid work in the laundry since it had an open door,
most of the time. It was tucked in under a ladder and 02 deck so it
sheltered fairly well. At least when he barfed out the door it got
washed down quickly.

It's important to get these guys to puke in the chum line...