I chose not to leave the cockpit, grimly fixing my sight on some imaginary horizon, while Dick was happily consuming open face sandwiches of peanut butter and Bermuda onion on dark rye, while smoking a filthy cheap cigar. Five of our merry little band would not stir out of their bunks which left me and Dick Bernstein (of "Bernstein's Fish Grotto" in San Francisco) to sail the boat. Seven of us - all experienced blue-water sailors - took some terrific punishment for two days in 50 knot head winds and huge seas. This was altogether a much more civilized way to deal with the situation, than that which I experienced in the late 1960s delivering a racing yacht up the Pacific Coast from Newport Beach to San Francisco. We never took these contraptions off our wrists for fourteen days never missed a dinner and enjoyed a nice shower every day. Ninety-five percent of the passengers (and many of the crew) responded to force 10 and 11 conditions by being violently green and avoiding all meals. "I can vouch for the wristbands with the pressure point 'buttons', as in the mid-1980s, my wife and I joined an Audubon Society expedition to look at penguins and albatrosses and things in Antartica - not as died-in-the wool bird watchers, but as the most practical way to "sail" around Cape Horn in fulfillment of a life-long ambition. In Thirty minutes they were down below playing board games on the floor. Both children were getting sick and C Bands were placed on their wrists. A short story involves two of our Grandchildren on a trip from Dunkirk to Buffalo Ohio on Lake Erie in five foot waves. My wife has used C bands for 20 years and finds it very effective. Our vessel is an Island Packet 31 and had given us my miles of cruising pleasure. It also is prescribed by doctors to pregnant females to prevent morning sickness. There are two types: wristbands that use pressure on the wrist to block signals and a high-tech version that does the same thing using electronic stimulation.Ĭ Bands are an elastic band with a small bead that is placed on the wrist providing a Acupressure point. The idea behind wristbands is similar to acupuncture: Block signals to the brain that cause seasickness. We've also included a few of the other cures, some of which were offbeat (understatement). We've included comments supporting these cures as well as the negative comments, helpful advice and warnings about possible side effects. Others noted that some of the various medications have side effects that are worse than being seasick.īy a wide margin, most readers' comments were directed at four cures: wristbands, ginger, Meclizine (Bonine, Dramamine) and Scopolamine. For every person who insisted, for example, that wristbands were the answer, another would preface his or her comments by saying they tried wristbands (or ginger, Bonine, Scopolamine, etc.) and they didn't work. Whether they got deathly ill or slightly ill, one thing almost every reader who responded made clear: There is no single cure for seasickness that works miraculously for everybody. Jon Triplett from Texas says seasickness "has ruined more trips for me than I can recall, yet I love to go offshore." That's tough! Why do they persist? Renee DeMar from San Francisco was typical despite being the most seasickness-prone person she knows, Renee has been sailing for the past 30 years simply because she likes being on the water. No, the toughest of the tough are the weekend boaters who routinely cast off the lines knowing that at any moment they're liable to become deathly ill. After reading dozens of e-mails on seasickness cures, it seems the toughest mariners aren't the yo-ho-ho types who've sailed around Cape Horn in a force 10 gale.
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