I have the opportunity in November to sail on a 60ft catamaran in the islands for a few weeks.

I don't have all the details yet, but part of the trip is a 600 mile blue water passage, which I have never done before but really want to.

Any advice? I do tend to get seasick, but I think if I do it will pass in a day. Every case I have ever gotten has been mild, and I have been out in some very rough stuff.

Oh and I have been promised lots of Rum and island women, in tropical paradise islands, its a good friends boat and he needs crew. He is a very experienced sailor, about as experienced as you can get. I have never done any blue water sailing but I can certainly handle a boat.

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Do it.

That's my advice. I wish I were your age, I'd jump on that chance. A friend of mine sailed with his wife and another couple from Morocco to Barbados. The memory stayed with him his whole life.

I find that ginger (the condiment) helps with airsickness, to which I am susceptible. Unlike bonine or dramamine, ginger doesn't make me drowsy or give me blahs. I hate bonine and dramamine. All of the dopey effect of getting high without feeling good.

Can I come along?

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it's automatic.

Make sure you don't sail on an empty stomach.

I always eat and never get seasick, airsick or carsick. I have been in boats that literally half the folks are barfing their heads off and not a bit of sickness myself.

It is a trick my dad learned when fishing on the ocean from the boat captain the first time he went out.

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Go for it. Need any more crew? Definitely take a good supply of ginger snaps.

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If We don't hear from you by New Year's...'Figure you've "Gone Native"

Except for the Counter-Rotating foolishness every Fall,that's Paradise!

(A few Big "S" patches won't "Crowd" any packing.)

Do you have a Personal GPS Alert Device ?
As in:
http://www.rei.com/product/815753/acr-electronics-resqlink-406-gps-personal-locator-beacon?preferredSku=8157530001&cm_mmc=cse_shopping-_-datafeed-_-product-_-na&mr:referralID=fbc421a2-f00d-11e1-97b3-001b2166becc

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to be able to "See" [And hear that "Gawd Awful Noise" of] my Little Ass floating on the Surface.

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Hattie -

They sell wrist bands with a small bead that work VERY well in preventing sea sickness. They save me and our kid on a very rough journey in the Caribbean. Have fun and go for it!

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I heard Ginger (Gilligans Island) helped with sea sickness.


Anyways - always pre-treat before the trip with your meds of choice. Dont take the morning of boarding. I had a Rx for something that was spelled like Mescaline or something like that - it would give you sea legs!

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I have done lots of long distance sailing, mostly racing. Hawaii, cabo, PV, Manzanillo... all up and down the west coast. Spent a year cruising the Bahamas too. Get a scoplamine patch, I cut one in half and put it on as I leave the doc. They last a few days, just long enough for me to get my sea legs. Being sea sick sucks and can be dangerous, especially if you are sailing short handed. Always wear a harness and tether at night if you are on deck, no exceptions! Have and practice a Man Overboard drill. What would you do if your buddy falls overboard? Inspect the boat and safety equipment yourself before you leave and be sure you know how to use everything. Keep an eye on the navigation yourself. Auto pilot/GPS assisted groundings happen more often than you might expect. Besides, you should know where you are in case your buddy gets injured or sick. Insist on good food, the 60 foot cat should have an excellent galley, so there is no excuse for freeze dried food.

Have a great time, don't pass up the opportunity.

mescaline would be an interesting choice. The one time I actually ate peyote I got extremely nauseated and barfed masticated Yellow Screaming Zonkers all over a 1965 VW van to Grace Slick singing about aome funky bunny.

Consider a SafeLink R10 . Although it is great if the coast guard knows where you are via an EPIRB, the Coasties could be hundreds of miles away. The boat you just fell off of or another nearby boat is your best chance for a quick rescue. With modern AIS systems every nearby boat will be alerted and have your exact coordinates.

I have logged 10,000 plus miles offshore and never had a personal locator. No doubt they are great to have, but they are expensive. Look into renting one, since this is not something you do regularly renting might make more sense.

It is Meclizine, not Mescaline LOL. It works well enough. Makes me drowsy, and you have to be able to hold it down for it to work. I prefer Scopalomine patches because If the wearther turns ****ty I can put one on and 4 hours later it will start to work even if I have been throwing up the whole time.

x2 on the wrist bands
I always get sea sick in open water. If I can see land not so much. On a trip to Tiburon Island in the Sea of Cortez, my last time on the ocean, I tried the wristbands and they worked great. Beats me how. Pressure points, voodoo, Homeophobic medicine or something.

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Because you didn't burn them white fuzzies off.

Usually as long as you can see the horizon your internal gyro is cool, it's when you go below deck that it detects something is amiss:
"I am cool down here but why do I think i'm moving?"

Mescalito chooses his friends and he don' choose everyone.
Peyote was almost a produce item in college. We used to clean the choke out, dry it on the roof, powder it in a blender and mix it with about a half a can of Hershey's syrup and milk and then gulp it down real fast. Still tasted pretty raunchy.

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Thanks good advice!

I'll get a few patch's and a bunch of wrist bands, why not hedge?

Since I want to do more offshore sailing I think I'll spend the $300 on one of those locators. Seems like cheap insurance.

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