After a couple days on the water...

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mysticowner

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Huntingdon Pa.
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23' cuddy cabin jet boat. 92 270 Sundancer waiting
for the maiden voyage
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545 big block ford 600+ HP. Stroker 270 is the 454
When we get home my wife still feels like she's on the boat. Anyone else
experiance that and what do you take for it? It feels like the floor is shifting slightly.

I have felt this myself a couple times after being out a couple days. :smt101
 
mysticowner said:
When we get home my wife still feels like she's on the boat. Anyone else
experiance that and what do you take for it? It feels like the floor is shifting slightly.

I have felt this myself a couple times after being out a couple days. :smt101
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I have had the same thing happen to me on several occasions this year (first time in 5 years of boating) but only once really bad. The one time it was really bad, I felt off balance and like you say, the floor is moving under me for a sustained time. I parked myself for a while until the strong feeling went away, but the rest of that day it was still subtle. Besides that time, it's been very short lived. I hope someone knows the cause/cure. I'm just hoping it doesn't get worse, as I'm clumsy enough as it is!
 
That's referred to as "Sea Legs". I don't mind it much, but if it actually put me off-balance, I'd probably try something like Dramamine.
 
Happens to the admiral after more than a few days on the boat.
It goes away after a day or two at the most, and has never bothered her enough to try and find a remedy.
I'm guessing it's an inner ear thing? the body becomes accustomed to maintaining balance on a moving object, and then
after on the hard, has to get re-accustomed :huh:
 
exactly. I find I only notice it on a Sunday night, when I get in the shower. the shower walls move a bit...
 
I get this sometimes and don’t mind it, kind of feels good.

I had 12 days off the beginning of July and used the boat 8 out of the 12 days and my wife had it pretty bad and took Dramamine.
 
KeithD said:
exactly. I find I only notice it on a Sunday night, when I get in the shower. the shower walls move a bit...
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Funny, I notice it shaving in the morning..
 
KeithD said:
exactly. I find I only notice it on a Sunday night, when I get in the shower. the shower walls move a bit...
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Wow, this is exactly when I had it bad!! What a coincidence. Mine was Monday morning after a weekend on the boat and I was falling into the walls in the shower! Very disorienting.
 
Try taking a 14 day cruise ship sometime you'll be feeling it for days after you get home it's normal unless it lasts for weeks.
 
It happens to me too, after just one day on the boat.... when I seat down for dinner...:smt101

We call it land sickness and those feeling it usually do not suffer from sea sikness :wink:
 
KeithD said:
exactly. I find I only notice it on a Sunday night, when I get in the shower. the shower walls move a bit...
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Theresamarie11 said:
Wow, this is exactly when I had it bad!! What a coincidence. Mine was Monday morning after a weekend on the boat and I was falling into the walls in the shower! Very disorienting.
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I think we're on to something here! This is where I feel it the most. I actually haven't felt it much in a couple of years, but just this past weekend between our two boats we were on the water for 18hrs in two days. My wife and I both felt the same issues on land. Notice it most in the shower. And then noticed it sitting for dinner some and then lying in bed.

Tom
 
I'd get it all the time when I was in the Navy. We'd go out for 12-14 days at a time, then when went ashore, it'd just catch you.
We were most susceptible in enclosed spaces, which affect your depth perception, and apparently your inner ear.

It would only last a few minutes, and I always felt the frequent adjustments helped immensely when we were in rough water, I never got seasick.

Once I had it so bad standing in this bar that they quit serving me.:grin:
 
my3sons said:
I'm guessing it's an inner ear thing? the body becomes accustomed to maintaining balance on a moving object, and then
after on the hard, has to get re-accustomed :huh:
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Bingo, we have a winner..........the 8th cranial nerve controls hearing and balance, there is one on each side going from the brain to the inner ear. The brain recieves signals from this nerve. I know a little, well alot, about this as I had tumor on this nerve. The balance part of this nerve must be severed during brain surgery to successfully remove the tumor. So now my brain is not getting a signal from one side and I feel like this everyday, some days are real bad.........sucks.

John
 
I usually experience this the first time or two we spend on the boat each year, usually doesn't bother me after that. My wife gets it worse, usually has the "wobbles" for a day or two each time we come home. I have found a cure for this affliction, MORE BOATING! I find as soon as any of us sets foot on the boat again, all symptoms disappear. Now if I could only get the doctor to write a script for that I'd be off to the boat in a heartbeat.
 
whenever this happens to me... usually on sunday afternoons... i call in sick to work on monday and stay on the boat. if problem persists... repeat.
 
It was really crowded last weekend, we headed for the no wake zone we usually tie up in and it looked like a small town.

We just went down the lake and picked an inlet, it was fine the first night as there were few boats running at night. The next day I left it anchored in the same spot and we were rocked all day. Nothing serious at all but I guess enough to start the symptoms :smt101

I guess when we'll be out a couple days we'll make a point of finding some no wake open spaces.
 
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