Re: 18 ft walkaround with 4.3L OMC cobra, ok to go offshore fishing?
Seasickness, …….. Yea, ……………--- Not fun & you don’t necessarily get used to it, and it doesn’t have to be related to anxiety. Some people just get motion sick. I was practically born with my feet in salt water & am probably more comfortable on the water than most people are in their living rooms, and I used to get viciously sea sick. Get used to the motion and get past it after a while??? I didn’t when I worked in the north Atlantic commercial fishing industry & spent a week to ten days at a time offshore. It would get a bit better after three days out, but I still had to make a ‘mad dash’ from the deck to make it to my bunk after my watch ended (of course the cigarette smoke & smell of ‘BENGAY’ down below didn’t help).
Definitely stay above deck, keep your eyes on the horizon and don’t be looking down into the boat, eat light, and drinking ‘flat’ Coca Cola helps some. Some of the motion sickness medications can be a great help (I didn’t take them as they can make you drowsy – as mentioned- and that’s not good with five tons of scallop dredge swinging over your head in the wind and rain while the deck is rolling at 3:00am.)
I will say that now, … 25 years later I do seem to be much less susceptible to motion sickness, so there is hope.
