"Cut my ferry teeth on the Isle of Man Steam Packet "
It was a trip on the IoM ferry that convinced me that 'Stugeron' was the finest thing out for preventing sea-sickness. Three of us were going across for the day for the 1974 senior TT and when we called for the third chap, I announced that I'd got the travel-sickness tablets.
"Oh", his mother cried, "my son's been all over the world - he's been to Egypt (blah, blah etc) - 'e don't need travel sickness tablets." So, just two of us took our tablets exactly as per label recommendation.
The ferry was up and down and all over the place; the vomit was rolling in tides around the floor and every rail that you chanced to steady yourself on, was sticky and smelly. I reckon that my mate & I who had taken the tablets were about the only folks on the ship who weren't throwing up.
We arrived on the IoM and our third friend was still green and feeling awful - and that's how he stayed all day - it ruined his trip to the TTs. He was just starting to recover by early evening in time for the trip back - by which time, the sea was as calm as a mill-pond!
I'm not at all prone to sea-sickness, but I always have Stugeron with me when I go on the sea on a bigger boat than my mate's powerboat and there's a chance that I will lose sight of the horizon.
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