the 11pm worry, retired
Will I be seasick? An honest answer.
It is the question guests are most embarrassed to ask and should not be — everyone from admirals to astronauts has fed the fishes. The honest news is better than you fear: on this coast, on this boat, in charter weather, seasickness is rare, usually preventable, and always manageable. Here is the truth of it.
the morning sea
Why charter days rarely produce it
Motion sickness needs sustained, confused motion — the slow corkscrew of a ferry crossing, a small boat parked in leftover swell. A charter day is the opposite pattern: short fast passages (the deep-V hull cuts rather than wallows), long calm anchorages in sheltered bays, and constant horizon. Most queasiness aboard any boat happens below deck in motion; our guests are on deck, in air, eyes on the coast. The layout is the medicine.
If you know you are susceptible
Say so when you book — it is common and it changes nothing except our planning. If you use a travel remedy, your pharmacist is the person to ask, and the one rule every sailor agrees on is to take it before the day, not after symptoms start. Beyond that: eat a normal breakfast, save the champagne for the first anchorage, board rested, and sit aft-of-centre on deck where motion is least. The sheltered-bay itinerary — Villefranche, the lee of the Cap — helps most of all, and we will build the day inside it without being asked twice.
shall we put a date in?
We reply within the day
If it happens anyway
The crew has seen everything and judges nothing. The fix is immediate and undramatic: slow down, find flat water — never more than ten minutes away on this coast — get eyes on land and air moving. Recovery at anchor is usually twenty minutes and a cold drink, and the day continues in the bays. Nobody has ever asked to go home; several have asked for the fast bit again after lunch.
The short answers
If you know you feel motion, a word with your pharmacist before you travel is the sensible move — they will know the right option for you. Whatever you choose, take it before the day rather than after symptoms start, and tell us when you book so the itinerary stays in the calmest water.
Better, counterintuitively: the deep-V hull slices chop rather than slamming it, passages are short because the boat is fast, and at anchor the tubes damp the roll that parks queasiness. The boat least likely to trouble a nervous stomach is a quick one in sheltered water — which is exactly this charter.
further down the chart
Your next summer story begins here.
One boat, one crew, up to 10 guests, and a coast that is entirely yours for the day. Tell us how you want to spend it and the rest is ours to arrange. The day is yours and it is our pleasure to be part of it.