Well, friends, there are a lot of opinions and ideas out there!

Thanks to all who've taken the trouble to contribute (so far - I daresay there'll be more!).

Sounds like I ought to eat oranges with ginger (OK) and salt (not so good), strawberry jam sandwiches, fatty bacon (repeatedly), Valium & vodka, Coke syrup (YUK!), crackers and seaweed soup.

And I should steer, stand in the companionway, look at the horizon, lean over the side (the LEE side, aft, for preference) with a mouthful of money, ride a galloping horse, work (OK at times but not much to do on a long straight leg), sit on a mountain (or under a tree), stand still, walk about (on the decks, I think, rather than the bulkheads unless we're in serious trouble), underwater in an aircraft carrier. All this whilst wearing a wristband and taking about seven different drugs (between half an hour and 2 days in advance), but no booze. And get the doc to check me over. And stay at sea for weeks at a time and stay ashore.

And I must avoid going aloft, especially in a gale, rounding the Horn, piloting a bomber, eating sugar, cheese, bread and tomatoes, mayonnnaise, smelling diesel (actually that doesn't bother me), anchoring in a swell, watching dodgy films, fishing, rescuing the jib from the sea and the Bay of Biscay (especially in a destroyer).


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