I would say to try and do something remotely active like looking for whales and porpoises. If there are birds around observe them too to keep your mind off unpleasant thoughts. Whatever you do, don't you dare think about vomiting. If it even crosses your mind, do not dwell on it. Remember it's like they say, "Misery loves company."

The best thing for sea sickness is a singing clicker.

That said, if your going to boot, eat stuff you wont mind seeing agian. Cold milk coming back up is as good as when it goes down.

Dont over eat, i made the mistake of eating my friends lunches and laughing while they were heaving over the side. I ended up joining them later in the day.

Here's a great story that will not come across well on on a thread, but ...

My buddy and I are in Mexico fishing for Marlin and he starts feeling sick. He heads down to the bunk below deck and tries to lay down, but this makes him feel much worse.

Suddenly, he jumps out of the bunk and heads for the head to barf, and the door knob comes off in his hand, with the door still closed tight.

Next thing we see is him running toward us on the back deck with his hand over his mouth and his cheeks bulging, all while holding the stinking doorknob in his left hand. As soon as he reaches the top step he begins his projectile vomiting across the back deck, and us, to the rail where he finishes the job.

The Mexican deck hands where on the floor rolling in laughter. To this day he's never lived it down.

I could damn near right a book of sea-sick stories but a couple of my favorites would be,

1) I had a rather large (6'4" 250lbs.) black gentleman get as sick as anyone I've seen on my boat, he went in the cabin with a 5 gal. bucket/porta-potti and became what we refer to as a "spinner", filling the bucket from both ends, after about 15 min. he decides he's done and heads out of the cabin to dump the bucket, he trips on the door track and falls face forward, the bucket hits first and proceeds to spash right in this guys face, that was as close to getting sick as I've come, that was his first and last day on the boat.

2) A buddy of mine had a guy "starch-up" on him and decide to go lie down in the cabin, while he's in there the water is getting rougher and he can no longer hold his lunch, he gets to the cabin door and can't figure out how to open it, my buddy, seeing this guys distress comes over to open the door just as this guy is unloading, Randy gets a full face full, this happened about 10 a.m., he was out till 4 smelling like vomit.

3) My all time favorite though was 3 brothers I fished with about 5 years ago, we were fishing in 3-4 ft. seas and doing pretty well, 1 of the guys asks if there is somewhere else we can fish as he thinks he had a bad oyster for dinner and isn't feeling well, and I tell him there are alot of places to fish but they probably won't be as good as where we are, another brother tells the first brother to quite whining and keep fishing, then tells me there's a $100 in it for me to stay and limit out, the 1st brother hands me $200 and says take me in, we were at the dock in 45 minutes.

Well I learned the hard way not to go in the cabin and try to rest. That made it twenty times worse. I have only got sick twice out there but I found if I go to the front of the boat and focus on something in the distance (another boat) and breath deep I feel just fine. Have a good trip.

All VERY good ideas: but I'd like to add one more. This will seem strange but ROLAIDS. When you start to get the 'tummy rolls' the acid builds up very quickly, making the situation worse.

Pop some Rolaids to take care of this .. and get the taste of bile out of your mouth. Stom. starts to 'roll' again, pop somemore.

If you get seasick, try this. Cut up a yellow pepper, a green pepper and a fresh tomato and eat it all just before you go out without chewing it. It won't keep you from vomiting, but it will look really pretty in the water. Badum-dum :rolleyes:


Seriously, though....... If you use chewable dramamine and dissolve it between your cheek and gum instead of swallowing, it gets into your blood stream much quicker. When swallowed, the active ingredient needs to get to your small intestines before it is absorbed and can take as long as 3 hours to get there depending on what's in your stomach and your digestion that day. Taking dramamine only an hour before you go out generally means it's not going to work in time. Take a pill before bed and then when you get up dissolve one behind your lip every 3 hours......set a timer on your watch and don't miss it.

Downtime,
You're paper bag cure is similar to one and old sailor friend of mine swears by...

Just take a magazine or newspaper and tuck it in under your belt. Kinda similar to the way old Chuck Knox used carry his clipboard and playsheet sticking out of his pants.

I may have to whip up some new salmon scent... ala ginger snap... If the Charter boats are giving this stuff to the pukers it must attract fish too...