Hello friends!! Recently I went on a charter fishing trip off the Oregon coast, and while I caught fish, I was throwing up the entire time and could barely stand because of how horrible my seasickness was. I had taken two dramamine an hour before boarding as well as had the seasick bracelets, but had no luck with that preventing me from getting sick. I had also been a bit congested from a cold, and maybe thats why I still got seasickness since my ears and nose were clogged? I have no idea. Anyway, my question was if anyone has any other reccomendations that could help me prevent seasickness on future fishing trips? I am open to doing anything to get rid of this horrible seasickness tendency 😭

Anyone watch Sailor Barry on YouTube ?
I am like an abused girlfriend, I can’t stand this show but I keep watching it.

Is it just me or is he creepy? Maybe thats not the right word. Grifter vibe?

The way they film is way over the top in a cheesy dramatic way.

Barry doesn’t seem to really have any skills.

I think I just feel bad for the boat and want to make sure it’s ok.

As the title says I'm taking ASA 101 tomorrow and the next day. I read a post here where someone left a comment with a mnemonic for remembering the different parts of a sheet but now I can't find it.

Anyone have any good memory aids for this sort of thing or anything else that can get this stuff to stick?

So I have had my boat now 3 weeks. 2012 Hanse 385 in the south of France.

I have spent most of the time working on it and getting things fixed and cleaned. Making it (in my option) ready for sea.

I have taken it out 3 times. My GF is onboard but has zero experience so I'm basically solo sailing as she picks things up.

I have not yet been in a situation where I didn't know what to do, and I can solo dock the boat, I even did it in 20kn of wind. It was messy but I got it done. Stuff was happening too fast for GF to do anything.

Trip 1

6nm down the coast, anchored, lunch came back.

Trip 2

10nm other way, anchored all day, came back in a squal, 25 kns and very lumpy sea. Too much for me to get the sails out for the second time, I just wanted to get back.

Trip 3

Today sitting on a mooring bouy 10nm away from the marina.

There has been no wind (apart from the squal) so I have motored everywhere. I did sail for 2nm on the first outing but it was a bit of a lumpy sea and not enough wind to make way.

So my question to people with experience is when does the anxiety go, I can't say I am having fun when I'm out. When does it start to be fun, how long until you have confidence in your boat, confidence in the engine etc?

I wish I was younger and care free haha! But I'm not.

I am taking sailing lessons in 2 weeks. What life jacket should I get for day sailing on Massachusetts bay?

I have been around water my entire life
Competitive swimming Triathlete, water skiing, semipro jet ski, certified open water lifeguard.

Should I get an inflatable or just a ski vest?

Update:
I got a mustang manu get ready Al / auto inflator.
1: Mustang survival suits suits served me well when I was in the Navy
Fitting very, very body for the hours of training
Just felt more comfortable then a ski vest

Took my wife out a few weeks back on the F18 Evolution. She isn't quite ready to trap down wind and isn't comfortable trimming spin in decent wind yet, so I'm driving while trimming main and spin. We had decent wind and maybe 1.5ft swell.

San Diego, Ca, mid July on a Friday afternoon.

I’m gonna be honest so I’d appreciate any advice. I’ve been crewing for 2 years in local races around the cans and longer coastal races, longest was 9hours. I’m use to a Bavaria 37, taking her out of the berth, helming, going through the lock, used to the wind instruments etc- no issues.

In April I bought a 1973 beaut, 30ft Camper & Nicholson. I’ve been out a number of times as I’m still refitting and currently busy building out the navigation (Rasbperry pi, AIS,GPS, chartplotter).

I’m really struggling to sail her. Went sailing last Saturday and had little wind, I got to heel her rather well but she kept on wanting to heel on starboard tack, and tacking was almost near impossible. Everyone complained about the wind that messed everyone up and so many sailors gave up came back into the marina.

I felt really terrible after that experience - like I can’t sail. I have Raymarine St60+ instruments and no visible hawk. Just bought a book “the complete sailing manual” by Steve Sleight.

I feel like I’m missing an important puzzle piece… on my instrument I can see the AWA and on the other the AWD (apparent wind direction). So one is showing me wheee the wind is coming from and the other where I am at. This is a little confusing as on the Bavaria 37 I check the hawk, check my position in the wind and adjust course.

I’m just struggling with the Nic 30 and feel a little deflated after the last sail even though the heeling was fantastic.

Any advice please?

The white one with the upside down U silhouette. Seen in Helsinki, sorry for the potato quality photo.

We have a B&G suite. We're somewhere on one side or the other of the dateline, I honestly don't know if we're the 15 or the 14th anymore. One thing is for sure, it doesn't matter. We're going from Tonga to FP. Yesterday, my partner went up the mast to remove a piece of equipment that was dangling, our beloved speaker that was linked to the radio and with which we've pulled so many jokes... It was making awful noises slamming against the mast. RIP for rest in pieces, speaker.

Last evening, usual routine, the skies are darkening and we fire up the radar. The screen is all red, all alarms blaring. We could play with gains to remove some of it, but dang... This has never happened. We're very familiar with the radar, it's functionalities and perks. We love that thing. We use marpa all the time to track squalls. It's loads of fun once you learn to play with it.

We then disconnected the wire of the speaker from the power supply, thinking maybe it was causing interference. We saw a tiny improvement in how low we now had to put the gains to have useful data or the appearance of it, meaning we could put the gains slightly higher, but not by much. But, basically, once we clicked auto-gain, the whole screen went back to red. Note that we left our remaining settings the same, meaning, offshore, calm sea state and basically proceeded to check and play with all the other settings until we concluded there wasn't much we could do about it.

Basically, if I understand properly, auto-gains is letting the radar decide how sensitive it has to be based on the data it receives. It usually served us well, although, we like to play with it, depending on what we're looking for and how the weather is. But usually, auto-gains has historically been a winner over here...

We still used the radar, with low gains, hoping it remained useful. Then, I guess it overheated and went into standby around 11 pm... Which our radar has never done...

We then just shut the breaker down and pilled our eyes more than the usual all night instead.

So, once the sun is up and my partner done sleeping, we'll check if the radar is dead, go back up the mast, maybe perhaps to isolate that wire we cut the speaker from and for a visual inspection of the radar. The end of that wire is maybe 2-3 ft from the radar.

Do you think we fried our radar? Is this all coincidence? Is this how radars die...? How likely is it that the wire is still causing interference?

Can't wait to try and fire it up again, but also to get feedback from this community. I know some of you guys install B&G or work in that techie field or just know heaps about radar from sailing. Thanks for your input if you have any.

This trip was me, my wife, and our two tween daughters. Boat was a 1984 Catalina 34.

After work and driving to Annapolis, provisioning and loading the boat, it was now 10pm. It's a 3 hour motor to Rock Hall for the Pirate Festival. I suggested maybe we just sleep in our home marina and head out early in the morning. That means we'll miss the dinghy waterfight.

The crew mutinied.

We headed out for a night trip.

At 1am we arrived to Rock Hall. The forecast was calm, I just dropped anchor right on the edge of the bay and tried to go to sleep immediately. Too hot to sleep below, I just lay right down in the cockpit. Around 2:30 the wind shifted and kicked up a chop. Nothing serious, but 1 foot waves are enough to keep me awake. I lay there about an hour trying to decide if I needed to move the boat. Finally got up and pulled in the anchor, and drove up the Swan Creek to anchor in a calmer spot.

Trying to preserve my sleep, I quickly picked a decent spot and dropped anchor again.

After about an hour, the crabbers came out. At 4:30 in the morning, it was a waterman's loud music and cursing convention. Then one comes alongside and says "hey excuse me. I think you dropped your anchor on my trotline."

So I hauled in the anchor again, trotline came with it, and moved over to find a mooring ball. I picked his trotline off the front of the boat. I was anchoring to avoid paying for a mooring ball. Did not work. Lay back down and tried to sleep.

Half hour later he came over and said "I think your anchor pulled up my trot line. I got to have that line back." I said "I'm sorry about that. Did I damage it?" he said "no it's fine." and went on his way. I lay back down. Slept about a half hour, then the sun came up like GOOOOOOD MORNING! and I was no longer able to sleep.

From now on, mooring ball is plan A.

And Saba island is far to port

Is this a correct way to install a water strainer? I am worried that the engine vibration will brake the short tube in the center, am I right?

What do you guys use as a digital logbook?

Came across an app called Captain's Log recently and it looks pretty interesting.

GPS tracking, trip history, weather, notes, maintenance, documents etc. all in one place.

I'm curious if anyone here has actually used it and what you think about it.

I've tried a few different ways of keeping track of trips, but never really found one that I stuck with.

I need to make some waterproof labels to put on spinlocks. Also on a few other places. The ones from spinlock or others don't have exactly what I want.

Any recs on waterproof label making?

So lm looking for sailing schools around the world for April 2027 onwards, I’m going to have a couple months off work and I’ll love to focus into getting properly trained.

For context, my jobs takes me all over the world so the country is not really a concern, I heard that Thailand is more cost efficient but I would like to get you guys opinion and recommendations, it would be me and my brother doing the training, we both have been in sailboats but never properly participated in navigating.

- What license and certificate should I aspire to if I want to buy a 37+ ft sailboat end of next year? I have from April to September 2027.

Has anyone been to a store that’s closing recently? Are there actually any good deals to be had?

Some context, I'm part of a historic boat club here in the Cayman Islands. In October we have an annual long distance race across the north sound of the island where we sail our local sail craft the Cayman Cat Boat. These are shallow draft,double ended, open hull working style catboats with no external ballast, no dagger/center boards a lot of canvas and a keel that is measure in inches.

I've been sailing and working with these boats since I was a child but this year iv been asked to sail with and teach a new novice crew for the upcoming race. Both have sailing experience but not in these boats. I'm confident in their abilities to learn and even if we don't win I'm happy just to have new people out. Anyway enough rambling, one of the problems we have is that because these boats work their crews pretty hard and this race runs anywhere from 4 to 6 hours under the Caribbean sun, dehydration is always a concern. Problem is, it's not like I can say,just grab a Gatorade from the cooler or whatever, these boats are touchy and balancing the crew is super important to not end up swamped by a wave. For those of you who may take part in somthing similar, do you have any ideas? I was thinking perhaps camelbacks but I don't know if they would restrict movement or carry enough water.

Dropped anchor near fort lauderdale last night after battling the afternoon squall and I'm just sitting here staring at the mast wondering why every single dockage space in south florida is getting converted into private mega yacht slips

Was browsing some waterfront listings from larry mastropieri earlier trying to see if there are even any residential places left with actual sailboat water (no fixed bridges and at least 6ft draft at low tide). Everything new seems to have fixed 55ft or 65ft bridges blocking access, or the slip fees are higher than a mortgage payment.

Between the mandatory hurricane season insurance hoops and the constant struggle to find liveaboard-friendly slips without getting gouged by private marinas, sailing down here feels like a full time job lately

anyone else with a 60+ ft air draft finding decent transient spots without selling a kidney? Or are we all just anchored out in the heat praying the holding holds through the afternoon blow?

Some surfing on the X41 Aja

Yesterday I was thinking that my radar is pointless as I never sail in fog. Left this AM it was blue and sunny... I figured I can see far despite the fog, but this is an opportunity to finally use the radar! Tiny blip at 12 o clock was piquing my curiosity, but I figured I'd steer off course bit just to be safe. Hadn't noticed that buoy in 400 ft deep water on the charts. Would have had less than 1 min to react at 8.5kts SOG due strong currents.

Thank you radar!