On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:19:43 -0500, "jlrogers±³©"
wrote:



Good advice. In four years at sea on a destroyer, and four or five years of
sailing, in all kinds of weather, including a couple of typhoons, I was
seasick only once and that was on a beautiful day on a flat, glassy sea.
It was on the USS Boyd DD544, in the western Pacific. We were chasing a
carrier at 34 knots and the ship and her deck plates were vibrating so bad
it made me (and most others aboard) as sick as a sea scout on his maiden
voyage.

That's fast. Full ahead on my can was 27 knots. But we were ASW
intended, and got up to speed very fast. USS John King (DDG-3).
I loved flank speed. In or out of the boiler room.
That's where the keels hits the water, and the machinery gets its
test.
Though I never got seasick to the puke point, we occasionally steamed
in heavy sea where everybody was queasy, including me.
But I felt worse crewing on a 36' across Lake Michigan in 4-6' waters,
so a 400' can and a sailboat are different animals on the seasickness
score.

--Vic