Rough Seas!

[MBP&O2/O]

4 hours ago, mics pics said:

Sometimes I need to sleep across - like pointing port to starboard, and other times I need to be sleeping bow to stern. I am weird, but it helped me. 

I get sicker in cars and planes than ships for some reason.

On the ships I worked on, the bunks were fore and aft wiith your head forward.  The reason given was the ships were invariably trimmed by the stern so your head was always higher than your feet.

 

Cars and planes? Totally different motion to ships in real terms.

Ships? Bouncing into a head on sea in a storm is totally different to a long gentle roll 30/ 40 degrees each way in the seas from that storm.

[Toofarfromthesea]

On 8/10/2022 at 2:03 PM, wcook said:

Some additional info:

 

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland

 

Thanks for this info.  Clearly Victory 1 and Victory 2 were not built to anything like these specifications.

[navybankerteacher]

2 hours ago, Toofarfromthesea said:

 

Thanks for this info.  Clearly Victory 1 and Victory 2 were not built to anything like these specifications.

But they were built for Great Lakes service - and they certainly are not “river boats”.

[jwattle]

On 8/8/2022 at 10:03 AM, Screasy said:

I should have said, but we DID have an inside cabin midship.  I always do extensive research before I do anything, and thought I had planned as best I could, and I guess I did, but the seas were just abnormally rough.

 

Having said that, I believe that based on all the additional research I did, we will have a balcony going forward, but still midship both laterally and vertically.  The lack of a view hindered more than helped, I believe.

 

The patches my daughter and wife used were not dramamine, but Scopolamine.

Instead of the dramamine/scopalamine, try meclizine tablets. They are non-drowsy and work like a champ without the side effects 🙂 (also known as bonine)

[ldubs]

23 hours ago, Toofarfromthesea said:

 

Thanks for this info.  Clearly Victory 1 and Victory 2 were not built to anything like these specifications.

 

OK, you know that "this info" is lyrics from a Gordon Lightfoot song.