The marijuana slang 'smoke a rope' came from sailing ship days when line was hemp and men were- seasick. The hemp line had mild levels of TCP and short nubs were smoked like a cigar for relief from nausea. I imagine this accounted for a few vessel's rigging coming up short and why we now chase down bales of the stuff. Seasickness is a fact of life and as much a right of passage as eating Purple K fire retardant after crossing the Equator and joining Neptune's realm. We used to take the FNGs ( fresh new guys in polite terms) out in the 'glory hole' of the old 36' MLB ( a trashcan sized cockpit at the bow used as a emergency station in tight manuevers) and bounce them around. There will be days underway when EVERYONE form the old Man to the newest apprentice seaman will be sick to some degree. I used the ginger Altoids, rebuilt my intestinal flora with cultured yogurt and SOS and kept a ready set of clean work dungarees <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />