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Never sail on an empty stomach or allow yourself to get cold. Both seem to make it worse. Not usually prone to being sick I was out on a sail a few miles offshore, long slow swell. I went below to do something and quickly started to feel unwell. I quickly came back up on deck and managed to avoid the spiral into full motion sickness but it still took me 40 mins to feel okay again.. Soon as I could I ate some food. Ginger tablets from health food stores do seem to work. In rougher choppy sea I can stay below and not get crook.
My girlfriend will sometimes say she feels unwell in the first hour of sailing, especially if we have not been out for some time. To some degree it's nerves on her part, I just leave her on the helm and she'll come good..Even to the point of eating lunch.
Mychael
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