Whenever I go sailing with friends on SF bay, if we go anywhere near a cruise ship my sea sickness goes into overdrive from how disgusting the exhaust odor is.
Vile machines, I wish more places would ban them.
Vile machines, I wish more places would ban them.
They're not supposed to run on the bunker oil near shore, but the stink from them just idling there is always exceptionally bad.
Incidentally, we also learned one time that if you get too close (on the order of hundreds of yards) to a docked cruise ship the USCG will appear with a large deck-mounted machine gun trained on your bow while ordering you to change course. So not only are the cruise ships making the air disgusting for everyone nearby, our tax dollars are spent guarding them from terrorist attacks while doing so too.
I'm sure container ships are disgusting too.. but they don't generally sit docked idling for ages where people are doing recreation.
I've been wanting to take sailing lessons but I'm worried my queasiness will rear it's ugly head.
Short day sails are kind of the worst because it's enough to get sick, but not long enough to get over the "sea legs" hump.
Do overnights, long weekends, sleep/live on the boat. That helps me significantly.
I haven't tested this on the boat yet but fasting seemed to help on my last cross-country train trip. It's on my list of things to try sailing. Fasting is basically being deep in ketosis AIUI, so maybe just going sailing on a keto diet would make a difference. I was _trying_ to make myself motion sick on that train trip where I hadn't eaten for 48hrs, and there wasn't even a hint of nausea, it's a very different head space.
The pollution they put out irritates my lungs and all for what, consumerism and global trade?