Sorry mate can't help, I'm lucky and never once had seasickness. Feel for you though :)

I always take just one kwell Beau. And for a big fella like me one is plenty and keeps me good for hours. You might even want to try the pressure point devices.

yeah i get seasick nearly always. worst feeling. i cant stay out there for any longer than about 4 hours tops without getting sick. kwells work im sure but didnt really help me, one thing i found which somone gave to me on a charter when i was feeling sick is a lollie pop. it actually worked. i was able to fish as long as i had one at the time. certainly worked for me so i would recommend that. good luck.

 +1 for a kwell, i used to get it really bad too mate, short sharp stuff gets me more than rolling seas, at rest rather than moving etc etc. I'd watch the forcast, take a trolling only trip or a river/in close trip first, keep your head above the gunnals at all times, lots of water to drink and keep occupied and watch the horizon.

I got better over a long time, now having to watch the sounder all the time looking for the good ground and having a bigger boat i have grown out of it i guess. I had a kwell every morning over the June long weekend where we battled 4m swells trough to peak and 1.5m seas watching the sounder and the waves through the window with no breeze and i didn't feel sick once. back in the day i would have pulled the pin on the trip or just spewed everywhere.

Stay offf the booze the night before too and avoid a greasy brekkie and a ice coffee on the way to the ramp just to make sure. ginger is a good one so take ginger beer with you or ginger nut bikkies as a snack, eat fruit for the suger in them it'll help also.

Travacalm or Dramamine. Kwels can make some people feel worse

Old diving trick...... take one the night before at bed time. Take another the next morning well before you head out, with a cup of coffee. The caffine will help combat the drowsiness. If you plan a long day.... take some more out with you. just follow the packet dosage instructions.

Most of these meds are antihistamine based and will dry your mouth out. Drink plenty of water!

Avoid a "big night" before you go out. Keep off alcohol, fatty food..

Look at the horizion....dont look down.

I never get seasick, ever. But, I have once or twice, felt a bit queasy.

Less red wine the night before, maybe less beer.
More sleep the night before.
Nothing sweet for breakfast.
F**k high-dose voltaren.

try gingerbeer it has worked for me a couple of times (no joke)

+1 on Brucesta

Booze is a killer I've found even a little the night before! I do travel calm just one tab now and like said previous keep sipping on the water whilest out there. I burley all the time but I don't let it beat me just waiting for that cure. Maybe one day.

Try the travel calm original mate. I take one every time I go out no matter what the conditions are like, even if it is glass. If you are looking at the sounder/gps or tying rigs then I can get that sickness feeling in the best of conditions. 1 travel calm original and I am set for the day. They have some caffeine in them to counter the sedative effect. They will all dry up secretions so plenty of water will fix that. You might find on a liveabord once you have your sea legs the seasickness wont take hold. Last time at the abrohlos I took one every day though just to be sure.

I'm probably just as bad as you mate but I take travel calm. Used to take two before u go to sleep the night before and 1 more on the way to the boat ramp and no matter how big the swell u won't get sick. But now just 2 tablets before u go is good...only down side is u get super sleepy but being side tracked by fishing stops it..

 works for me.

 but now I run a 4 stroke and it is much better, weired thing is I have been out on the water in some uncomfortable conditions and ppl that never get sick feel queasy, but me I'm fine, and other 

days in fairly nice conditions and feel queazy. But generally over the years I have got better and never take tablets. I don't booze it up at all and maybe cause my body is alcohol free it has made things better. When I do have my head down doing rigs, queasyness can move in........tying on jigs is quick and easy

ps, just keep going out, there is hope

This will work you need to go to doctor ask for scrip for stemzine tell him what if for that it the night befor or 1 hr befor going its a life changer on so many guys I have told

K-Well has worked well for me but then I just take it as a safe assurance cause I go out on charters.

Last trip out, I hadn't eaten anything since I woke up and was about 5-6hrs in to the trip out, and I ate a handful of smarties. Next thing I knew I threw up a rainbow of colours... 

I use to get sick on a lake:) no really! I didn't find the travelcalmn or gingers or pressure bands to be effective for me. I take half a qwell the night before, and then another half 40 min before I jump on the boat. if take a whole it screws with me, and took two once and couldn't walk let alone fish. it does get better with time though. now I just take half before I jump on.. but its gotta be 40 minutes before and only ever half at once_ also chew them dry without water_ and no milky drinks

Thanks a bunch lads, sounds like there may be hope! I take my fishing pretty seriously especially if I'm heading outside of the sound into deeper waters for snapper etc. so alcohol consumption and fatigue isn't an issue. I remember being a young teen going out on mums uncles boat and actually getting that queezy feeling before I even got to the ramp, so it definitely used to be psychological problem. I've grown out of air sickness, and general travelling sickness (sitting at the back of the bus) but the sea sickness seems to be a huge problem still.
The last trip out was a snapper bash and I was constantly checking the sounder and getting us back on the mark and that just tipped me over the edge!
From the responses above sounds like I'm going to have to experiment with various drugs to see what suits me best haha

 As a fellow seasick sufferer I really feel for ya mate. I also have tried countless types of remedies for sea sickness and none have worked, then one arvo I was watching a fishing program who were advertising seasick tablets. They are made by a company called BOVA chemist in NSW, they are specifically made for sea sickness rather than for travel sickness like alot of the other brands out there. I have been out in some pretty average conditions since taking them and haven't been sick yet. I think the number is 1300 SEASICK. Good luck mate. 

 have tried kwells before but they make me more drowzy and seasik,but i now use travelcalm ,i used to take 2 but now only 1 half hour before i go out on the ocean,night before eat a decent meal thats not too greasy and dont drink to heavy aswel,plenty of cool drink eg coke or even gingerbeer

 I have my own boat and  at first I would get sick or at least fell shizzza even on the river.

1 thing I came to realize is that it is almost all in the head, i realized this as I would start feeling bad about 5 minutes before even launching the boat of the trailer.

What I do now is:

2 x travacalm on the way to ramp 

No booze and a good night sleep the night before

Absolutely no caffeine at least 12 hours before going on the boat (dehydration is a big factor in sea sickness)

Make all my rigs the night before (rigging up on a boat was when sickness would really kick in and kick my sorry ass)

Take and drink water the whole bloody day, eat chips especially shapes biscuits and ginger cookies.

Im convinced it's mostly in your head but science proves otherwise, travacalm thickens the fluid in your ears to stop the swirling of this fluid that brings on sickness. It leaves a crappy taste in your mouth and you do feel a bit odd but it's far better then heaving your guts up. If you can get behind the wheel of the boat and where possible turn the engine off, the fumes do something that helps kick in sea sickness. I can now get out confidently knowing I will not throw my ring up even drifting the whole day with the engine running.

Good luck and just try different things eventually something will work for you.

If you have tried most of the above, they are all good hints and they don't work take a trip to you local doctor and get him to check if the canals that run from your nostrils through to the back of your ear drums are clear or blocked. If they are blocked there is no way known that you are going to overcome the dreaded mel de mer.

 A couple of tricks to try is to steer clear of any milk products for at least 12 hours before heading out [used to be a nasty trick to give someone looking a bit green a drink of milk and see how long before he chucked up, same goes for peppermints on some people]. Ginger nut biscuits or even the chunks of ginger work a treat. Alcohol of any form is a no no especially the night before if you're as bad as you say. Again as other stated, anything greasy like bacon, eggs etc. 

While on the boat keep busy, try not to look down at the deck or water for longer than necessary, if you feel a bit queasy stare at the horizon or another boat in the distance until it passes.

Last but not least, if all the hints haven't helped one bit, eat pineapple, preferably the rings or large chunks because its going to taste the same coming up for anywhere up to 24 hour later, that way you get to taste it twice!!!

Hey beau, you do know your meant to swallow the kwell and not stick em up you clacker........don't ya........haha.

No coffee, no milk, and no piss the night before.

 Get the little blue tablets from ET

I cant sleep on a boat

I think they are called BOVA

These sort me out

Travacalm original, Kwells etc all do not work for me. I get seasick badly.

Try Travacalm (ginger) which I found to be good so far otherwise the ET pills work really really well. Never been sick with ET pills in me.

 Pineapple Carnarvonite !! I like it taste it twice LOL.

Travelcalm for me every time, just one an hour before launch, makes me feel sick as it starts to work but then all is good.

 " Its all in the head "... Ive heard that many times from people know never get sick. But if u suffer ,its real !!! I have been a sufferer for many years and never really got over it. Even after fishing professionally for several years !! On extended trips it would sometimes take several days but if rough and I was tired, eventually I would get crook. Boooze the night before is a certain recipe for disaster of course. Ive even had it when snorkling and in shallow bumpy water for crayfsh and abalone when its choppy.  

My best antidote was to eat ..and keep my stomach full. chicken, sandwiches etc. Also Kwells worked ok too but make you very thirsty and sleepy. As you see from the others on here..your not alone, you will learn to manage it a little, but maybe it will never go away completely.

Other than that ...sick and fishing is better than not fishing at all.good luck   

Might sound reall really weird but my fiance dads mate, who goes out on boats regulary with him used to get seasick all the time yachting on the river and on a few of trips over to rottnest. On our last trip to rotto he didnt get the slightest bit sick. Been getting seasick all his life(think he is 60+ yrs) and boom.... all of the sudden no seasickness. That was 2 years ago, and last i heard from the father in law to be, he hasnt had a relapse. And now for the wierd part, he saw and Accupuncturist. Dont know exactly how it works but he said he tried everything, including probably all the things others have suggested above but none worked for him.

I have even heard Hypnotism can work for some people?

As for me i only seem to get queasy when it is dead flat with no ocean movement at all coupled with the smelly 2 stroke fumes wafting out the motor when stationary. Thank god we upgraded to 4 stroke in 2004!

My missus used to get seasick very regulary, but if she takes kwell ginger tablets, one the night before, one when she first wakes up then one at the boat ramp, 90% of the time she fares well. Though there is the other 10% of the time when it is usually a big swell she still gets seasick. She said its the slow rolling motion of the swell rather than the sharp motion of waves that gets to her.

Good luck anyway Beau, hope you do find a way to overcome it or manage it better.

Used to take dramamine but spent the day half asleep, not an ideal situation.  Then discovered kwells taken half an hour before getting to the water's edge and I seem to manage pretty well.   wouldn't even contemplate going on a boat without taking one. 

The drowsiness caused by some brands is an issue on a jet ski I would have thought.  I have heard of people having success with hypnotism, might be worth looking into as a long term solution.

i dont think you grow out of it. my uncle is a wet liner and if he spends a week on dry land and then goes out it takes him a couple of days to get past the seasickness and he has been working on boats as long as i can remember. Sandy is a chronic sufferer as well but takes 1 travacalm half hour before we hit the water with a bit of food and snacks along the day and does fine with that, as mentioned , you need to make sure you have plenty to drink but dont guzzle just sip away at it all day.

 i use the sea sick band and the Pihia Sea Sick bomb from NZ for me this has worked just email the chemist over there and they will send you some, the stemitill from the doc works kinda it stops you spewing but you still feel like crap unlessits a really bad day in sea sick terms.

so far the bomb has worked for me

If you have any contacts overseas or anyone you know going to Bali or if you are going just buy a supply - works a treat for up to five days, even in southern indian ocean waters on a yacht they work a treat and do not make you in any way drousy ............it is the one that delivers scopolomine transdermally into the balance centre behind one of your ears via a small bandaid like delivery system.  They are quite legal here but due to our drug registration laws it isn't worth the drug company's getting the requisite  licensing   

I always make sure I get a couple of bits of toast in before I leave home. Going out without eating is not the best option.

Simple breakkie and i always take travacalm original.  Kwells make me really dry in the throat and sleepy.  i have been told eating kiwifruit before you head out helps too but I have not been game to try it and potentially spoil a day out.

It is definitely all mental.  I was out in huge seas one day and felt fine then all of a sudden I remembered that I had not taken my seasick pills and I reckon wihtin 5 mins i started to feel really queasy.  From that point of view I guess hypnotism would work but I have not tried it.

Beau,

Same, as everyone that has posted above i can only offer my personal experience 

Im in an odd group as i will always vomit between 3-5 miles offshore and then recover and be fine for most of the day. It is something i have accepted. I have experimented with every possible over the counter tablet in Australia, tried the natural way and have found the following stuff which helps me personally:

Travacalm/Kwells Etc - they affect everyone differently - Travacalm ruins me so i take kwells, its vice versa for a mate. Take 1, with a spare on the boat.

Stay in the fresh air - nothing worse than diesel or the smell of other peoples vomit.

Dont have a fatty breakfast on the way out, keep it small and simple.

have some food ready for when you have a moment of feeling better (i usually have a couple pre made rolls, this has been my saving point)

Vitamin C helps and if you are vomitting keep hydrated.

Focus on obejects further away - i feel queezy when i start rigging.

Keep yourself occupied where possible - I have good mates that know when im looking green and will talk to me to keep my mind of seassickness. As soon as we can fish the pain disappears.

No alcohol the night before - My worst day out was after my brothers going away - the ocean wasnt the worst i have been out in.

I have stayed on 35ft boats overnight and have found that i will eventually get my legs after 12 hours or so and then can go about life as normal.

all of these have helped me, but there have been trials and error and plenty of burley on my behalf. So if your fishing partners can skipper you ski start testing yourself, a few outings in pain will be worth it in the end.

Yeh beau, im a shocker with sea sickness.I can handle rough as days but a calm day with swell does me over.My secret is 1 travelcalm original just before I leave home, a pepper steak pie and bottle of water from the servo on the way to the ramp.Once out there as soon as I start to feel a bit off(usually after about 2 hrs on the water) I have a sandwitch or something to eat.Works for me anyway.

 I only ever feel queasy if I've had too many drinks the night before while tying up rigs with the lads. Get yourself some ginger marmalade for breaky and one of those sniff cannisters from most tackle shops or chemists for when you start feeling ill. The best remedy though is jumping into the water. Sharks are on my mind when I'm out wide, so the adrenaline rush you get when you hit that water will brush aside your sea sickness instantly.

I just got some of the Bova compound tabs to try. I usually have bad day first up after a long break from the water but get better each day on the water.  

I have found if you start to feel unwell after everything else has been done(tabs, ginger ect) take some plain bread, tear small bits off usually 2-3 slices is enough for me, only sip a small amount of water to get the bread down. It works to soak up the enzymes that slop around in your gut and I have found it really effective.     

Few pointers, altho i dont get sea sick.

1. Dont have milk for breakfast, not even a coffee. If anything have a piece of toast and a black tea.

2. Dont get on the booze the night before.

3. Get enough sleep.

4. Just keep at it, you will soon get used to being on a boat.

5. Start in close, so you can still see the shore and have something stable to focus on.

5. Kwells

6. When your out on the water, and start feeling sick move around a bit, it helps.

7. Dont look down when your feeling crook, look out over the water or at the land, take in big deep breaths of air. This is usually enough to not make you chuck, however wont make the feeling go away.

8. Eating on the water makes you feel better for about 5 seconds! then its back over the side.

9. Go for  a swim if your game enough. usually helps and takes your mind off chucking.

Surprised nobody has suggested this yet (though admittedly I did skim all the above pretty quickly), but for me the best thing is a few beers.

Pretty rare for me to get queesy, but if I do, 2-3 beers and I come good as gold.

This demonstrates to me that 'its all in the mind' and a few beers to take your mind off it is what you need.

Have been out on maybe 10 or 15 charters some in very bad weather and have been severely sick nearly everytime. Until the time I had Kwells before heading out, they tend to work fine sometimes would wear off towards end of the day. 

Once had a really rough day ahead on the water and figured it have a crack at 3 Kwells on the way to the ramp, I can tell ya 30mins later as we are driving through a heavily scrubby section of highway, felt as though I was on the uss enterprise entering time warp.. Man was tripping balls big time, after my high wore off crashed and slept for 6 hrs, didn't stir for the rest of the day. Shared this story with my old boss and he said they used to eat 5 and get on the piss made for a cheap loose night out, I can understand y!

On another outting a friend gave me a travelcarm original not the herbal bullshite and felt so much better all day, no drowsiness at all, I'm a convert.. 

The odd beer in times of nausea I found also works a treat.

Also what has been said above, ginger biscuits, ginger beers work to some extent. Experimentation is the key!

Good luck mate!

mostly good info already ...

my sons have suffered with it a bit over the years as they grew up and came out of margs with me in the boat ....pointers i noticed below

1.mostly it would hit them if we where drifting bottom bouncing once engine was stopped

2  always they where ok while we where on the move either trolling or moving between spots

3 they always seemed ok if they where catching fish

4 weather /sea conditions didnt seem to affect its onset , could be rough or dead calm ,

5  if i stayed close to shore /within sight of land they seemed better ,

6 take KWELLS  the night before just as you go to bed , then one again in the morning , gives the active ingredient time to work on your body ,

7 have a light toast , tea type brekkie , no milk or oily cooked stuff if your prone to it

8 take food & water out with you , once sick try to nibble on some type of dry biscuit , sao etc

9  JUMPING OVER BOARD INTO THE OCEAN DOESNT WORK , you can swim for ten mins and get back onboard and still feel sick , have had blokes try it  miles out to sea and it didnt help at all ......only dry land will ime once it ha set in on a person

10 dont go out in aboat if you have the flue or sinus problems , adds to the inner ear imbalance big time

  11  avoid if possible sitting down in the hull or near engine fumes , typically untangling riggs or lines etc

 12 keep your head up into the wind

  13 keep your body hydrated , keep drinking water all day , it all helps if your going to keep chucking before you get back to land

 14  if you know you get sea sick advise the skipper before you leave land , it will help him choose where he may decide to go , and when you do vomit , do it downwind , out of the boat , and dont ask to be taken back into shore in the first ten mins .....

pretty harsh i know ..... but it can also stuff other blokes day out ....

hezzy

 if ya got sickness problems i feel bad for ya son, i got 99 problems but seasickness aint one!

I went out on a dirty stinkin wetline boat from freo about 20 yrs ago ,to work . Was stoked so got on the piss till bout midnight , had to be at the boat 2am , the skip took one look at me and said sleep it off . Anyway 4 hrs later , woke to being 12 nm out from rotto  , 20-30 knots , solid swell ! Was sick for 2 days spewing every half hr to hr while working . Came in after 4 days cause the freezer was busted , all on ice .only ate 2 meals whole time and just drank loads of water ! But I haven,t been crook since , not even close .

when i was in school i was doing work experience on a cray boat! i loved boats and was always on them but if i got bored on a calm day i would get sick! (its all in the head) same if it was swelly always sick! so when i done this work experience the swell was around 3 metres out of rocko and we were out crayfishing in it! me getting sick every day! we didnt fish for three days due to wind and a swell of 4 metres it was in the middle of summer so it was hot, the day we went back to work the boys on the boat asked me to go get another box of bait from the back hatch the swell was still pumping and it was blowing 30 knots, we were fishing just on the back of the five fathom bank and the swells were breaking! we were using orange roughy and mulies when i opened the hatch there was three inches of maggots and blood surging through them and the smell was hurrendous! i spewed for the rest of the day and all of the next day i was sooo sick. after the boys stopped laughing they told me they had left the hatch open the for the days we didnt work! hence the smell and maggots! the funny thing is since that day i have not been sick nor even felt slightly seedy! but a full stomach plenty to drink and not to get cold always helped me!

 I used to get seasick but i started taking a couple of travelcalms 1/2 hour before i go out on a boat and havnt been seasick since also drinking plenty of water helps.

Travelcalm original for me.  Take one the night before you go out just to get it in your system, then 2 half hour before you get on the water.  Big thing for me is not drinking any piss the night before or when on the water, also no fatty food just nice bland food.  Anyways works for me hope it works for you

Bloody hell thanks alot guys, here I was thinking I was going to get ripped to shreds for this post and maybe get a couple serious replies, how wrong I was!

Travelcalm is first on the list, then the Bova Escape capsules. Hopefully something works :)

Cheers lads

my remedy is of a green colour and smokes well never fails. even when kwells don't work

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Go to sea for at least three days straight. You'll either get your sea legs or be so weak you wont care. One sleep at sea works for some but two should get you through. Don't puss out and go when it is calm either.

Good luck.

been there my whole life. just before our trip last month i did some reading and ended up buying 2 sorts just in case, I got travacalm originals + some others called Avomine. they are are motion sickness drug called something else but marketed under Avomine, but have to get them from a chemist. I got mine online 30 for $9.50 best things ever.. They make you a little drowsy but a good coffee sorts that. I went from being hopeless to 2 weeks up north + pinkie fishing on 5 fathom last friday with no problems at all. Tying nots etc too not just sitting feeling shit,

 i never even got around to trying the Travacalms in the end

Definitely no milk products.  I'm over it now, through time on the water and generally being the skipper (too much fishing to think about) but I always have a pack of kwells somewhere just incase it comes from nowhere.

I have tried most of the pills available. Cronic Seasickness for the best part of 30 years. Last year I got onto Ginger tablets. Blackmores to be specific. Just followed the dosage, I think 2 before leaving home, 1 at the ramp and then 1 every couple of hours. Have not been sick since. Cant really overdose either.

Keep your breakfast milk free. Just toast, or even a toasted sandwich.

Keep up the water intake, dont hit the piss the night before, get a good night sleep and keep the anxiety and stress levels low. By this I mean get all your fishing gear sorted the night before so all you have to do is hop in the car and go. Nibble on food during the day.

I hope this helps.