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Cruising vs Sea-State

Smiling Sam

I commented on this in a different thread and then decided I'd start a new thread. I'm sure we have lots of people on the forum that have significant experience cruising. I'm interesting in peoples opinions/experiences from various cruise/tours they've taken with respect to the sea-state they encountered and if any fellow travelers experienced sea-sickness.

I've taken the Tauck small ship (Ponant) Venice and Dalmatian Coast tour. On that tour no one that I know of had any sea-sickness. You could barely even tell you were on a ship the seas were so calm. Another Tauck tour was the Treasures of the Aegean on the Windstar. Again, there were no cases of sea-sickness and the seas were very calm.

A non-Tauck tour that I took of the UK and Ireland took a ferry from Wales to Dublin. During the crossing it seemed like the deck of the ship was at about a 30 degree tilt. It made walking on the deck interesting, but I heard of no sea-sickness cases.

A non-Tauck tour I took in Australia had an excursion from Cairns to the Great Barrier Reef. On that transit some people did experience sea-sickness and had to make deposits in the sea-sickness bags. When I see someone doing that it promotes a gag reflex, so I have to immediately head to other parts of the boat or I would be joining the bag depositors.

I would suspect that of the Tauck tours Antarctica, followed by any tours that cross the Arctic Circle would have the highest possibility for unpleasant sea-states.

I'd love to hear experienced cruisers (especially on the small Ponant like ships) tales relative to sea-state. I don't know but I'd think the large cruise ships (thousands of passengers) could drive through most anything short of a hurricane without creating a large sea-sickness issue.

Comments

AlanS

Portolan
11:56AM

I think main point of interest in your photo of the hand railing was not the railing- it was the strategically positioned barf bags!!

Virginia_Travelers

That's fabulous weather and I miss it ! On my first time ever at sea we were told to secure all cabinets, doors etc. and make ready for sea. Unaware of the real necessity for doing this I did not close and lock a cabinet door with the metal bar. A few hours later we hit rough seas and the door swung open and missed my head by inches. Learned that necessity real quick. The Navy guys used to sit in the Wardroom drinking coffee eating lightly watching the Marines down food as fast as it came out. After a little while they wish they hadn't asked for extra helpings of chili. Yep those were Interesting times.

Portolan

AlanS: that was the point. I added the fact of dual handrails after the fact and didn't realize that comment might draw the focus away from the bags.

BTW (all): because our suite was on deck 3 and therefore in danger of serious spray, we were told to not even think about going outside. All the balcony furniture on all decks was removed and stored in the hallways. We never felt unsafe...it was a brag-worthy experience ("there we were in the middle of a Force 10 gale!"...eating French cuisine).