Sailed a 27 foot monohull with my friend from Key West to Cancun. I had several trips behind me and never ever had sea sickness. About 2 hours into the trip had a little enigine trouble. Stuck my head down into the engine bay to see what was wrong. When I stood up I was truly introduced to sea sickness. The trip took 8 days. I couldn't keep anything down except for coca cola and raisins
???Anything else would come right back up and over the side of the boat.
Along the way I sailed through miles of iridescent algae in the middle of the night..... One night I swear to christ I heard darth vader breathing next to me, I looked over the side of the ship and saw 2 dolphins on each side of boat blowing water through their dorsal gill. Sounded just like darth vader. They swam next to me all night..... Almost ran into an underwater pipe that was about 2 miles long and being transported just a few feet beneath the surface of the water by some spanish speaking engineering rig. I couldn't speak spanish so when they tried contacting me on the short wave radio I had no fucking clue what they were talking about. Fortunately my buddy woke up and heard the warning.... At one point we were about a mile off the coast of Cuba. Talk about pristine water....Upon arrival in Cancun I was surrounded by the Mexican Navy. Who the fuck knew Mexico had a Navy? Turns out President Fox was arriving in Cancun the next morning.
I lost around 10 to 15 pounds on that trip. When I got back to the States I read in a local paper that 2 guys in a 25 foot monohull took the same route we took during the same week and they were never seen again. I have not sailed since.