Today
I set sail for adventure, on a three hour tour!
Actually it’s the Company Dinner cruise, which is a nice afternoon and a nice meal together with co workers who will not be wearing coveralls for a change.
The last time I was on a boat on Lake Michigan I spent six hours puking in a bucket. Lets hope I don’t repeat that performance.
Updatage: Lunch/dinner was uneventful. Other than sitting next to the company chatterbox and not being able to get a word in edgewise. Good meal. No seasickness.
Lake Michigan?
Today?
I didn’t realize I get seasick until I was on a tall ship in Lake Michigan. It was so bad my sister had to take me back to her apartment (we were supposed to stay overnight on the ship). Horrible, horrible feeling.
Take a Dramamine, before you get on the boat. Now, if you can.
I did that last time. It didn”t seem to do a damned thing.
Hmm….Hope it does not affect you this year. Most likely something in the inner does not like being rocked.
Thing ain’t named the Edmund Fitzgerald II by any chance?
If so, stay offa the damn boat!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Lake Michigan can be as docile as a kitten…but when it’s NOT–
There’s a story that percolates through the sailing community about an ocean racer who came to the Great Lakes for a Macinack race. His attitude: “How bad can it be? It’s a LAKE, not the ocean!”
…he found out how bad it can be when his boat nearly capsized in a storm, because Lake Michigan is not a “lake” but an inland sea.
The first time my Dad took the sailboat out, in 1977, it was onto a Lake Michigan with 6-8 foot waves, which were the roughest seas I’d ever experienced in my life. That’s not as bad as it gets during a real storm; that was just a blustery late summer day.
So, yeah–I know what you mean.
Still, there were plenty of times when the lake had barely any chop at all, and I can remember a few days where it was like glass.
Glad you had a good time!
Glad you had a semi-good time… Hate chatterboxes over here…