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We used to just pick someone up and toss them in the ocean if they were feeling "green". Sometimes it worked.

Lots of factors but the biggest factor is some folks are just born with it and can’t spend enough time on the water to get used to it.

. Four stroke engines and a clean boat will help folks a lot when you have folks prone to seasickness. The old days of two stroke or diesel exhaust was brutal as is a stinky/fishy boat.

I have very few pukers anymore compared to 20 years ago. The modern medicine works.

The first time I felt green on a boat was an early morning start, fishing the Kenai for a few hours, drive down to Homer, got a 6pm start and fished until 1am getting our limits for both days. In the stuffy cabin with a faint smell of diesel on the way back I decided to take my co workers offering of bbq potato chips and spinach dip.

I didn't puke, but I did spend the ride back on the bow getting fresh air and enjoying the sunrise.

I’ve never been seasick, which is odd as I have squirrelly guts and sometimes get a weak stomach from extended car rides. Rough seas, boats leaking diesel into the bilge, spending days on the water sleeping under a tarp on the deck, none of it bothered me thankfully.

Wife got green and pukey fishing on a friend’s boat out of Seward once, she was 7 months pregnant, sent it over the side and picked her rod back up and was good the rest of the day.

Now the guy who was a friend of a friend of a friend that bought a seat on a halibut charter with us and then stayed at the bar until 2 hours before time to be onboard. He was one green machine. Puked the whole ride out to where we fished. Caught one little doily sized fish and retired to the cabin where he alternated sleeping and running onto the deck to puke. Best $350 he ever spent! 😂

The battery powered and "little ball" style wrist-bands work on the accupuncture/pressure site for nausea/gastric motility. As said, works for some, doesn't for others. There's probably some placebo effect to the electronic bands as you can feel the stimulations through your thumb and if turned up enough through your middle and ring fingers as well.

Works for me for motion sickness, doesn't work for hangovers. (grin)

I’ve never been seasick but I have spent many early early mornings suffering from the effects of the revelry mere hours before, aka brown bottle flu. I don’t hardly drink at all anymore since mornings hurt in a different way than when I was young.

I noticed that more than half the folks up on the island this time of year were wearing the Scopalomine patch behind their ears. Those patches really work well from what I’ve seen with buddies that are pukers…

I was on a charter boat heading out of Noyo Harbor for some bottom fishing and we knew the ocean was going to be rough. This fellow fisherman, an old salt wearing a US Navy hat, says, "I never get seasick, not even once".

So we get out there and it's rougher than hell and the old salt was fishing next to me. He suddenly leaned over the rail and projectile vomited so hard his dentures flew out. The old man caught them in mid air, rinsed the puke off them, put them back in and went back to fishing.

Hell of a catch.

Agreed

i find eating sunflower seeds helps me to not get sea sick. salted ones
just don't spit the shells on the boat- wears out your welcome fast