This isn't bragging: the only time I felt remotely close to being seasick was in September 1974, when I felt the tugs bump us aboard USS AMERICA (CV-66) to pull the ship from Pier 12 at Norfolk NOB so that we could leave to participate in NORTHERN MERGER 74. That was my first DIRSUP deployment. My Chief and a couple of veteran DIRSUP operators in SUPRAD must've seen my face and they laughed. I remember thinking "This is ridiculous, we're not even underway!" The feeling passed uneventfully and I was never seasick on any ship or boat in which I was deployed, regardless of weather (a boat at PD is not boring a hole through the water!).
Of course, there's considerable difference between a catamaran under sail and a 92,000 ton aircraft carrier (or a BURKE-class DDG).
I have found that being at the wheel or tiller cures it for me. If I can't steer then it is just doing one puke.
I do remember on a night race when handling the jib I looked down and got vertigo. Vertigo is a common cause of loss of control in IMC in small plane accidents.
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Here is the saying for the Huricane season:
May Maybe
November Never
It is June.
I disagree with your closing comment. Otherwise thank you for your entertaining post.
God’s speed on your voyage!
Opyat', Kapitan, schastlivogo plavanie!
This isn't bragging: the only time I felt remotely close to being seasick was in September 1974, when I felt the tugs bump us aboard USS AMERICA (CV-66) to pull the ship from Pier 12 at Norfolk NOB so that we could leave to participate in NORTHERN MERGER 74. That was my first DIRSUP deployment. My Chief and a couple of veteran DIRSUP operators in SUPRAD must've seen my face and they laughed. I remember thinking "This is ridiculous, we're not even underway!" The feeling passed uneventfully and I was never seasick on any ship or boat in which I was deployed, regardless of weather (a boat at PD is not boring a hole through the water!).
Of course, there's considerable difference between a catamaran under sail and a 92,000 ton aircraft carrier (or a BURKE-class DDG).
I miss being underway, shipmate.
Happy sailing, Bryan!
Re: Sea Sick
I have found that being at the wheel or tiller cures it for me. If I can't steer then it is just doing one puke.
I do remember on a night race when handling the jib I looked down and got vertigo. Vertigo is a common cause of loss of control in IMC in small plane accidents.