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1 hour ago, BigStewMan said:

 I don’t get seasick

 

 

Steve,

 

I thought the same thing, having sailed and raced small (<20 ft) sailboats my whole life, until I was on a 28’ sloop in Chicago during a regatta. The wind was high and I had a shroud that was compromised.  Rather than risk snapping the mast, I parked it and volunteered to crew on a rescue boat.   After a few minutes of watching the Chicago skyline rhythmically rise and fall, I was ready to hurl until one of the racers capsized and we responded.

 

The only other time was on a 40’ Morgan ketch sailing from Harbor Springs to Beaver Island.  I didn’t actually put on a food show either time, but it was close.

 

My theory is that the erratic motion of a small boat under race conditions is not conducive to seasickness, whereas slow undulations of a larger boat without the excitement of racing, or rescue, promote mal de mer.

 

 

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used to go to PuertoPenasco with a friend. He would get sick every time... and he kept going  .  We would anchor up and bottom fish.  Me, I get my sea legs fast. I spend a day on the lake. I can stand in the boat fine. When I hit solid ground, I run into problems.

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5 minutes ago, BigStewMan said:

the sensation of motion.  feels weird when you’re home an in the shower and you still feel like you’re on the boat. 

Like riding your motorcycle for hours then stopping and it feels like the air is still passing over your arms. 

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1 hour ago, BigStewMan said:

the sensation of motion.  feels weird when you’re home an in the shower and you still feel like you’re on the boat. 

I have had that feeling, one time after a cruise with a friend he said he could still feel the boat moving. I told him it will go away in a couple of days. He looked it up and it turns out there are some people who never get over that feeling, they have a name for it, he was a little panicked until it went away.

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3 minutes ago, dtel said:

I have had that feeling, one time after a cruise with a friend he said he could still feel the boat moving. I told him it will go away in a couple of days. He looked it up and it turns out there are some people who never get over that feeling, they have a name for it, he was a little panicked until it went away.

i almost got thrown out of bed once while sailing through a cyclone.  Happened another time during an earthquake ... it takes skill to wake up from a dead sleep and immediately have to catch your balance. 

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had an update for the computer yesterday/last night.  Took over an hour to load. Wish I would have waited until I didn't want to use the silly machine.

wife is getting her feet under her again. Gingerly attempting solid food. When I observed that she hadn't eaten anything ... "but, I ate some ice cream"... That doesn't count.

 

Looks like FL is spared a direct hit from Dorian. .... and spreading her goodness up the coast. Lots of "definitely/maybe" Hate to say that the European forecasts look to be closer than ours... Their models generally are better down here, too.

 

Holiday plans?  Nada. Stay home. Wife was talking about going to a Beatles tribute at the casino.  Sposed to be good, according to RollingStone, fwiw. Note, I said "was". That was before she spent two days in bed or on/at the toilet.

 

got a little shower this AM. That'll shoot our chances for rain for the day. Unless we don't need the heat to trigger the storms.

 

Critters are fed. Coffee made. Mex. Have a bag of Peruvian on deck.

Watched some TV.  MajorLeagueFishing and Battlebots.   Battlebots appeals [very much] to my destructive side.  Gives me lots of bad ideas.

Hey! Have any of you watched the drone racing? It is FAST. 90mph.  Here's a big surprise. One of the sponsors is the USAF. The pilots wear VR helmets/glasses.  I got out when VR/FPV[first person video] was starting. We did a lot of R&D for them. I was building R/C helicopters [that would actually fly] in the 2 - 3 ounce range... including a half oz battery. Not from scratch. Cobbing parts and lots of modding.

 

chatty this AM.. OK. I shut up now

 

 

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2 hours ago, WillyBob said:

Looks like FL is spared a direct hit from Dorian.

 

13 minutes ago, JohnJ said:

Pay attention to Dorian Chuck, if it rides the Gulf Stream north it will get substantially stronger, heck it's not even to it yet and it's down to 945 mb!!

They keep changing it, no telling where it will go, but it does look like it will wash most of the east coast with rain at the least.

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Right guys.....no telling.  And we have just about recovered from Hurricane Florence😐  Early panic buyers already.....saw a guy with 4 cases of bottled water on a hand truck and red gas cans being filled at the BP station.

I, OTOH, only bought a half gallon of Bourbon.....priorities you know.

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