Seasickness: do you eventually quit getting it?

[Stein]

I’ve never felt even a little sea sick when running my own boat for what it’s worth. I think it’s because your focused on your surroundings differently

I have only been queezy once and it was a rocky trip in the heavy fog where I was kneeling down for 10 minutes staring at the deck tying up some leaders.  I stood up, had no idea which way was up and couldn't see a horizon or anything to orient myself much less north or south and had to sit down for a few minutes.  I had to look over the rail and see some water to get my brain and eyes in agreement.  I'm pretty lucky so far.

I did have a buddy that could get seasick in the bathtub.  We were on a WA ferry once and once it started moving he was instantly barfing on the top deck.  When he started chucking, I could have jumped off the back and landed on the dock we were that close.  It was a flat calm, sunny day, but he just had the bad ocean genes I guess.

[fishngamereaper]

I always give people on my boat ginger. Candied ginger, ginger ale etc...it works pretty good.

I was never prone to motion issues but neck and back problems have created some over the years. Messed up nerves, equilibrium stuff, so I feel sorry for people that get sea sick just looking at water.

And from what Ive seen Bonine is the best off the shelf product.

[riverrun]

Bonine patches are the only thing that worked for me! 

[carlyoungs]

Well, i guess tough it out it is. The times ive gotten sick have been in rough seas. Tuna fishing last year was nasty all day, i made it 5 hours with the pstch before i was sick, and was still functional even after.
Ill stockpile patches and look into the zofran for sure!

The good part of having my own boat; ill never go out in water as rough as the charters ive been sickest on did lol

It wasn't that nasty out
I would say normal for a 50 mile run
I hate that people pay so much money to go fish and are miserable the whole time. Is the prescription better if you start it like a week earlier? It seems every trip I go on there are always people who are borderline on their death bed

[lokidog]

I was seasick for 34 days once... on a 76' boat.  Not the whole time, there were good days, but bleh. I never did puke though.

I don't get queezy at all in the Sound, and I've been out fishing/shrimping/traveling in some crappy stuff. I take dramamine/bonine, whatevver when I go to the coast just in case as I'd rather not feel yucky at all. People that OTC doesn't work well often don't take it soon enough IMO.

[Skillet]

A lot of our stories are the same - we get a little/a lot nauseous at first, but dig deep and push through it (sometimes with help from a pill/patch/ginger product), and enjoy our time on the ocean.

I have the same conversation with every crew, every year.  It doesn't matter to me if you get seasick, it's how you deal with it. There is no shame in getting seasick, it's a natural phenomenon. But to be respected in our industry, to be "salty," you have to find it in yourself to keep working on deck and push through the pain until you get your sea legs. People who do that earn a lot of respect in my world.

I even took that landlubber @h20hunter out in some big water in November up here, and I think he was feeling it  . But he pushed through and because of that we made a trip out of it. For that (among other things) he has my respect.

To @syoungs, do whatever it takes to get out on the water.  I know you have the sand to push through the nausea, and it's all glory from there.

Good fishin'-
 

[BUTTER]

Im a tug Captain and still get sick at times. I try to avoid Caffeine when its rough that seems to help. I don't think it matters some people just get it and some do not. I envy the ones that don't.

[rtspring]

You bunch of wussies

20 years in the Navy and 100’s of fishing trips!  Never even been close to being sick!
But boy do I feel for those that do get sick... I’ve seen many who looked like they were gonna die... 

[vandeman17]

You bunch of wussies

20 years in the Navy and 100’s of fishing trips!  Never even been close to being sick!
But boy do I feel for those that do get sick... I’ve seen many who looked like they were gonna die...

I can assure you that at the time, death seems like the better option!!

[KFhunter]

I'm the guy on the back of the boat eating a sammy while everyone else is barfing over the gunnels, lucky.  I almost got seasick once while trying to fix something that was line trying to thread a needle..fine motor skills and focus, I can't read a book in a car, plane or boat.

Wife on the otherhand....barf!

80 some people on a whale watching dinner cruise and she's the only one barfing.  Everytime we get on the salt...barf!

Went fishing out of alaska, reeling up a hali while barfing

Shes a trooper

The funniest was she was snorkeling on a manta ray excursion and barfing...little needlefish darting in and out of her chumline gorking everyone out, was awesome lol

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[lokidog]

 

I've been seasick a few times, but can proudly say I never contributed to the chum line.

[Buckhunter24]

I've got a couple family members I consider tough old *censored*s and they end up in the fetal position within an hour or two. I'm lucky to not get sick, it looks like absolute misery. I almost feel bad yelling out fish on while they are calling dinosaurs over the edge lol

[Humptulips]

My Dad was in the Navy "41 to "45 ,subchaser, and he said he never got over it. He said the only time he wasn't sick was when things got scary. He said he lived off saltine crackers, only thing he could keep down.
He told me one sailor had it so bad he shot himself to get out of going back out.
Also told me they hauled a clerk from Anchorage out to Adak in some pretty bad weather. The guy was so bad he lost his eyesight. Recovered it after about a week ashore.

[cbond3318]

Who knows man. I’ve come to despise the salt because of it. I’ve done a couple long range Tuna trips in the worst conditions and loved every minute of it never felt sick. Then done quite a few bottom and salmon trips in a comparable mild chop and wanted to roll myself overboard to make it stop. 

Just going to have to chart a course and find out.

[Stein]

The other thing is that the open ocean is much different than Puget Sound.  In PS, we don't get the big ocean rollers, just chop from wind, tide and boat wakes.  It can be awful sporty for sure, but the motion is much different than the open ocean from my experience.