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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Sat Jul 08 2006 - 01:14:53 EDT
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:52:16 -0400, you wrote:
>Tasted a piece of "crystallized ginger slice" about six Months ago. Wow, it
>wakes up your taste buds immediately..........
>A quick Google with keywords "Crystallized Ginger Slice" had revealed a
>bunch of websites. here is one:
>
>http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/ubbs/archive/HOME_REMEDIES/Ultimate_Preserved_Crystallized_Ginger_.html
My mom used to recommend Canada Dry Ginger Ale (and only that brand)
for seasickness. This was about 40 years ago, so I don't know whether
that recommendation still holds or even if you can get it anymore. I
haven't looked. I also bought some ginger candy from Vermont Country
Store or someplace like that, just in case. I tasted it but have
never actually needed to use it.
>
>Once again, let me ask the question I asked the list six Months ago. Has
>anybody gone through a process where sailing in very rough seas causes
>seasickness due to apprehension, and then the effect lessens after the
>equipment verifies reliability with a few events without problems ?
That happened to me on our third trip in our boat. We were going to
go from Cuckold Creek off the Patuxent around to the Potomac - it was
April, and it was quite windy-- a south wind and we were going south -
big square waves with the boat pounding into them. Bob had to go out
on deck twice - once to secure the anchor which had come loose and was
banging up and down on the bow, and once to take down the staysail,
and I was quite certain that if he fell overboard, I wouldn't be able
to get back to him. (We were both wearing PFDs, but Bob hadn't fitted
jacklines yet). We were going so slowly that when we got opposite
Hooper Island light, the range boat for the targets called us on the
radio and asked if we were going north or south.
I was nauseated and Bob insisted that the best thing for that was for
me to be at the helm. So I stuck it out until finally after about 6
hours of this, I said "You HAVE to take the wheel. I can't do this
anymore". And he protested again, but I let go of the wheel and moved
over out from behind it, so he took it. I dropped my pencil and when
I leaned over to pick it up my head swam, but when I sat up again, all
my nausea had completely disappeared and I did not mind the motion of
the boat at all.
I also experienced the same sort of reaction only a bit more diffuse
when we got back on the boat after Bob's heart attack. But I don't
think that's quite the same. It was more a pounding heart type thing
rather than actual nausea
Rough weather still makes me uncomfortable, but not really to the
point of nausea. I know the boat can take it, but I'm not so sure
that I can.
I have since read in one of the Pardee's books that Lynn had a similar
reaction at the beginning of one of their cruises. She is normally
seasick for a few days when they start out, but she said this lasted
much longer than usual. She finally figured out that it was tension,
although she did not know why she should have been particularly tense.
>Incidentally, apprehension is not same as cowardice and should not be a
>reason for our "macho" members not to express their opinions. A bold and
>thinking person with a controlled level of apprehension often accomplishes
>spectacular missions where a courageous fool may simply die taking others
>with him.
>
>Ahmet
>SV8827
>
>
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