Ya just have to be tired enough mate!! First night a sea i sleep like shark( dont) second , no worries at all!!
Ian
It helps having a real long day as well!! Start early, finish late and travel a long long way with plenty of winding in between
Ya just have to be tired enough mate!! First night a sea i sleep like shark( dont) second , no worries at all!!
Ian
It helps having a real long day as well!! Start early, finish late and travel a long long way with plenty of winding in between
if your the skip i would suggest sleep with one eye open
Garry,Originally Posted by Spaniard_King
It may well be like the night before a tripI can't sleep.
As the skipper of the boat you may well have 2 fishing while you try and sleep. But you would still have the feeling to catch the next one while keeping an eye on things
Hows it going
I usually take some noise canceling headphones and rack out listening to my favorite tunes but normally if i am only going out overnight i don't sleep as i am missing out on prime fishing time.
If there is swell get a tyre tube attached to a shark clips http://www.chsmith.com.au/cgi-bin/he...st&Display=652 at each end then attach to anchor rope (eg 1m tube across 2-3m rope) to smooth out the bumps.
Pro coral trout dories use this technique as these guys have to stand up all day and they don't like getting knocked over by the swell!
I've always found I sleep better in a boat that in my own bed, but the booze probably helped me a bit there
Can understand what you mean about not relaxing.. years ago some mates of mine slipped anchor in their boat, about 15 miles out to sea off NSW central coast.. When one of them woke up they had drifted 60nm south. Lucky they didn't drift west or they would have landed on a bombora !
Unfortunately for them though, they didn't have enough fuel for a 60nm trip, so they just went for it and got as close as possible, then went into Botany bay and found somewhere to buy enough fuel to get home.
Bosses / wives weren't impressed, they took almost another day to get home with all the mucking around, but it could have been much much worse. Stupidity reined here as no one was nominated to stay up on watch
yeah...what Black Rat said - nothing brings on the zzzzz's like a gutfull of Bundy's finest.
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. But ,flogging him into submission will result in him taking up crabbing.... and once he gets a taste of that sh*t, well, he may never return again.
not too sure about the virtues of drinking offshore (I am not against it mind you) but you need to remember that IF something does go wrong (and it could) the master of the vessel (you) will be the one to take the rap, it does not matter if you are asleep and someone else is on watch, you are responsible, even the Bareboat charters up the Whitsundays, when you are anchored for the night (unless it is a designated Cyclone anchorage) you can and probably will be breath tested by the Authorities, as silly as that sounds it is a fact of life, your the master, you are responsible!
OH and unless you are at a marina or the like, I think it would be very foolish for everbody to be asleep at once, someone responsible should be on watch at all times, especially if there is some Shipping traffic about (or the liklyhood of some)
Your house is quiet, and any noise will wake you up because that is how your brain is programmed.
Out on the water it is different. Noise is good but it is that change in noise that you must teach your mind to recognise as a problem. I can sleep through a lightning storm with not a problem in the world, once slept straight through a hail storm at night living in a tin roofed house.
That guy tapping out a rythm with the hammer will only change his rythm when there is a change in the surroundings. Learn to recognise that change in noise is something that should be investigated.
Regards
Wessel
Yeah i am with Noelm...cant believe the number of people who responded to drinking as a cure....If i was anchored anywhere out in the deep blue yonda then that would be the last thing i would do...to many things can go wrong and the last thing a skipper needs to be worrying about is a drunk crew...wouldnt drinking add more risk to the trip...I am not saying a couple of beers is wrong , but a bottle of top shelf..????
Cheers Mick
Pussy
Im exactly the same mate. I think its the whole responsibility thing that keeps me awake. All my mates just crash out but im wondering the whole time about things like is AN OCEANLINER GONNA TAKE ME OUT OR SOMETHING!!! If it wasnt my boat id probably be able to relax a bit more. I dont enjoy overnighters out wide as much anymore because of the whole sleep thing. Someone should really be awake all the time anyway just to be safe but, as hard as it is
I used to be able to sleep soundly in the trawler's forecastle with the Gardiner diesel roaring away on the other side of the engineroom bulkhead. Even managed to sleep when the weather was rough enough to lift you out of the bunk repeatedly, with the pitching of the 45' boat. What fun
However..... let the engine drop a few hundred revs, and I was awake in an instant.
Change in revs meant one of two things: nets hooked up - gotta get 'em up, or nets not hooked up, but skipper backing off throttle ready to put winches in gear - gotta get 'em up.
The solution to getting to sleep:- Eat well, work hard, get stuff all sleep for four days or so..........
You'll go out like a light at the first opportunity. I've nodded off at sea when doing the dishes.
Ahh, those were the days.
Last edited by Sea-Dog; 08-05-2007 at 07:56 PM.
Thats the way Sea Dog...I miss the fishing on the big commercial boats too...
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