Sea sickness is a horrible thing. Most people have suffered from it at some stage and many people suffer from it a lot. Statistically 70% of people suffer from motion sickness given the wrong conditions. So why do anything to encourage it?

 

It is such a shame and can totally disrupt a wonderful day, not only for the poor person suffering but everyone else as plans have to be immediately changed. Once it has set in, the only real thing to do is to get onto land as soon as possible. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Getting ashore at night can be very challenging at night and the sufferer is in for a serious ordeal. Yachting can be and is a wonderful experience. For anyone who does or occasionally does suffer, the single most important thing and number one rule to consider is NOT to sleep anywhere near or in the hulls, down below the main deck level. 

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Have you noticed over recent years how yacht galleys down at waterline level are almost nonexistent (owner & guest galleys) and even main deck ones are more and more now aft, right next to the open cockpit doors with retractable
glass lifting windows? Very few people like to go down below the main deck to cook food. The same applies to sleeping.

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EkoKat is the only power catamaran that provides you with the best possible fail-safe option for sleeping. We have deliberately not put our guest bedrooms in the hulls, period.

 

All of our guest cabins are well above waterline level, they all have access immediately to the outside and fresh air, and they all have large panoramic windows to make sure you constantly catch site of the horizon so you know whether you are standing up or lying down if you are feeling a little queasy! 

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Funnily enough, for those who have been on a yacht charter holiday where you or one of the guests has felt seasick at night, you will probably recall the crew saying to go and sleep upstairs in the main deck salon ... the exact location of the Ekokat Presidential Suite after it has been transformed from its day time mode Luxury Penthouse Apartment.

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The EkoKat superyacht sized master cabin in the 3 cabin layout yacht, with 180 degree
panoramic views and direct access to the foredeck

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​The best solution to sea sickness?, simple, just do not go down below the main deck. Stay up top and sleep in the salon area ~ otherwise known on an EkoKat as the Presidential suite

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What is seasickness and why do we get it?

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Seasickness is a form of motion sickness and a normal response to specific motion stimuli, often experienced on a boat when a person is exposed to unfamiliar movements. It is provocative motions that induce motion sickness. Technically speaking it is repeated accelerations in the inner ear balance centre, generated by the wave's movement of the boat, that cause us to be sick. You are more likely to get seasick in vast swells. On a boat at sea we are exposed to moves in six degrees of motion, up/down, forward/back and right/left, and rotation around 3 axes.

 

Also be aware, whilst Catamarans are unquestionably more 'stable', provide less 'roll' and a more comfortable ride than single hull boats, especially deep V hull ones that have their deepest centre of buoyancy at the keel, it is a myth that catamarans help with seasickness. In fact some catamarans make it worse because of their unpredictable motion. Whilst there is a difference in the motion between catamarans versus single-hulled boats, the result for those that usually get seasick is the same.

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If you get seasick on one type of boat you will usually get seasick on the others. Make use of the catamaran's major benefit over a mono hull ... the large bridge deck spaces such as the salon and cockpit'

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