Seasickness is a well-known ailment among sailors. Belonging to the family of motion sickness (kinetosis), its scientific name is naupathy. Whether you are a professional sailor, a skipper used to racing or simply a weekend sailor, you can feel seasick at any time. Anyone can get seasick one day in his life, suffer from it regularly or occasionally, be sick in heavy weather, but not on an oily sea, upwind and not downwind...
To help you understand what seasickness is, how it manifests itself and why it occurs, here is a special report on the subject.
