Getting Your Sea Legs - Then Your Land Legs Again
The trouble with short sea trips is that when you have just gotten your sea legs the journey is over and you have to get use to walking on land again.
Problem
For some sailors this is no big deal but for others it can be a bit of a problem, sometimes lasting for a few hours or a day.
After a great trip and you have safety arrived at your destination, the first thing sailors do is to go and have a few drinks at the boat club pub and meet the locals.
These locals are usually great listeners and will pay attention to their guests' tales about their exploits as mariners without interruption, notably if the drinks are free. Some of these fellows may even offer an opinion after the third freebie.
Everythings a Rocking
But before the drinks, especially after a short two to three day trip everyone is desperate for a shower. Walking from the dock can be for some a little problematic. The reason is that the narrow floating docks and even the roads and pathways suddenly seem to start swinging all by themselves even though things are calm everywhere else.
While scrambling to grab hold of something to steady things down, things revert back to normal and so off they go again.
This jerky un co-ordinated stop go amble will have many club members who recognise the walk in hysterics. Most land lubbers will reach the immediate conclusion that the sailor is drunk.
Drunk Legs
Maybe this is not so far off the mark because in about another hour or two he probably will be and it will be hard to distinguish between land legs and drunk legs.
There are sailors who do not have this drunken walking problem and will leave their boat striding briskly, like real salty sea dogs in complete control, straight to the showers. It is while standing in a shower cubicle enjoying a well-deserved spray of warm water that the place unexpectedly seems to come alive, swaying at a nauseating rate.
The poor sailor while hanging onto the faucets seems unable to figure out what's happening as things are for reasons unknown violently moving about. These sensations do not last long thank goodness but do repeat themselves a few more time and then fading away as their land legs finally taken control.
The Dictionary
Sea legs according to the Oxford Dictionary, means having the ability to walk on a deck of a rolling ship. Unfortunately before they can reach this ability many sailors must first suffer going through a phase called sea sickness. I know of many sailors who whenever they go to sea endure this two-step process. The strange thing is that when they finally get to shore there is hardly any sea to land leg adjustment.
Salty Dogs
The mariners who do not get sea sick and find their sea legs almost immediately when setting sail, often go through the sea to land leg adjustment when going ashore. These lucky salty dogs do not have to go through a land sickness phase.
The trouble with short sea trips is that when you have just gotten your sea legs the journey is over and you have to get use to walking on land again.
Problem
For some sailors this is no big deal but for others it can be a bit of a problem, sometimes lasting for a few hours or a day.
After a great trip and you have safety arrived at your destination, the first thing sailors do is to go and have a few drinks at the boat club pub and meet the locals.
These locals are usually great listeners and will pay attention to their guests' tales about their exploits as mariners without interruption, notably if the drinks are free. Some of these fellows may even offer an opinion after the third freebie.
Everythings a Rocking
But before the drinks, especially after a short two to three day trip everyone is desperate for a shower. Walking from the dock can be for some a little problematic. The reason is that the narrow floating docks and even the roads and pathways suddenly seem to start swinging all by themselves even though things are calm everywhere else.
While scrambling to grab hold of something to steady things down, things revert back to normal and so off they go again.
This jerky un co-ordinated stop go amble will have many club members who recognise the walk in hysterics. Most land lubbers will reach the immediate conclusion that the sailor is drunk.
Drunk Legs
Maybe this is not so far off the mark because in about another hour or two he probably will be and it will be hard to distinguish between land legs and drunk legs.
There are sailors who do not have this drunken walking problem and will leave their boat striding briskly, like real salty sea dogs in complete control, straight to the showers. It is while standing in a shower cubicle enjoying a well-deserved spray of warm water that the place unexpectedly seems to come alive, swaying at a nauseating rate.
The poor sailor while hanging onto the faucets seems unable to figure out what's happening as things are for reasons unknown violently moving about. These sensations do not last long thank goodness but do repeat themselves a few more time and then fading away as their land legs finally taken control.
The Dictionary
Sea legs according to the Oxford Dictionary, means having the ability to walk on a deck of a rolling ship. Unfortunately before they can reach this ability many sailors must first suffer going through a phase called sea sickness. I know of many sailors who whenever they go to sea endure this two-step process. The strange thing is that when they finally get to shore there is hardly any sea to land leg adjustment.
Salty Dogs
The mariners who do not get sea sick and find their sea legs almost immediately when setting sail, often go through the sea to land leg adjustment when going ashore. These lucky salty dogs do not have to go through a land sickness phase.
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