My fishing trip.

[Dave Gray]

A friend of mine is getting married, so for his bachelor party, we got a chartered fishing boat.

Last night, I went to a wine tasting and over-indulged.  Today, I was hungover, at best.

I felt a lot better by the time we got on the boat and had some food.  The fresh air on the way out to sea was nice, and I took a dramamine.  As soon as we hit the Ocean, I was green.

I sat totally still in a chair, trying to concentrate on the horizon line.  I chummed the water with my vomit on two occasions, and was stuck out there for 3 hours.  Another one of us was also puking.  The seas were 4-8 feet, with the occasional 10 foot wave.  Although fishermen lie about stuff like that, so maybe the captain was embellishing.  Either way, it was big, and it felt like you were in a washing machine.

The captain of the boat made fun of us as we puked and took our pictures for his collage.  His jokes were really funny, but I was unable to laugh at them.  My favorite was this one:

"You know what helps?  Make yourself puke.  Just stick your finger in your mouth.  If that doesn't make you puke, stick it in your butt -- then in your mouth.  That should do the trick."

or, right after I puked:

"If you feel something come up that's rubbery and hairy, that's your asshole...try to swallow that one down again."

I normally don't get seasick, but damn....it was bad.  And it didn't let up until we got back into the inlet.

[Sunstroke]

I've seen a lot of people get seasick, and I have enough empathy to feel for you guys, but the roll of the sea (or being shaken around in general) really doesn't mess with my gut at all...which is strange, since I have a really weak gut in how it responds to digestive trauma.

I like the "hairy, rubbery...swallow that one back down again" joke though. That's funny as hell.

[landlocked]

I feel ya,Dave.I get a little queasy offshore myself.But only on small craft.The only time I actually hurled it was really sloppy and I had been drinking,spewing it into the ocean actually made me feel better and I continued fishing afterward.The thing that always got me was the tourists would come fishing,feel sick,and instead of using the 20,000 square miles of ocean to puke in.......they turn and hurl all over your shoes.

[Guru-In-Vegas]

I don't know if its the same but I thought that motion sickness is (wierd) something in your ears.  Like your balance gets thrown off and it messes with your head or something.

I say this because when I flew in an F-15, the briefing prior to the flight said something to that nature.  75% of newbies on flights in fighters puke.  I didn't  .

[Phishfan]

I have heard of fishing boats for bachelor parties before, but to me that just doesn't sound appealing. Give me booze, bars, limos, illicit party favors and dancing women any day.

[Dave Gray]

It was pretty fun, actually, wishing I was dead aside.  We caught fish, complained about women -- plenty of the guys drank (just not me, for obvious reasons).  Then we came back the house and cooked the fish, made fun of each other, and played cards.