Nothing bigger than a motorboat. My uncle used to take us out on the lake when I was a child to watch him and his wife water ski.

However, I was in a sub no longer on the water... my dad, a WW II Navy veteran, once took us to see the U-505, a captured German U-boat, on exhibit at what used to be called the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. I rememember it being very dark and cramped inside. The kind of thing you never forget. This was long before they built a special wing to house it indoors. It now has its own webpage. msichicago.org/explore/whats-h…

U-505 Submarine

Experience the real U-505, the only German submarine in the United States.

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Lots and lots of boating (my family has owned three, first two powerboats, and then a sailboat).

I was on a submarine someplace, but can't recall the details. Also, definitely on an aircraft carrier (the Intrepid, which is now docked in NYC -- and has one of the space shuttles on it).

My Dad, a WW2 Navy Vet, loved the sea. My adoptive mother hated it, adored her pool - which is what they built instead of my Dad getting a boat. Sad. He got a canoe, but used it all of twice. I was with him both times in it. Loved the canoe. We got chased down the Carson River in it by a pair of rather pissed Swans, even. My adoptive mother never touched a paddle. She was the weight in the middle while we worked. I have rather fond memories of riding in a chartered boat from Long Island to Block Island and back...long day wandering around Block Island, and we ran into stormy seas coming back..I slept on a bench on the boat while half the other kids & adults in the group were hanging out on a rear deck getting sick.

My husband Grimm hates the Sea. I've not been in a boat or near the water since. Miss it.

If you go to Charleston SC you can go onto the late WW-II aircraft carrier, Yorktown and get lost in its vastness. And next to it is a WW-II submarine which is tight, tight, and tight inside.

(I worked at the North Charleston naval weapons center when we did the DARPA robotics pre-trial test events.)

I love being on the water. (I learned to swim when I was less than 2 years old, so I'm kinda comfortable with water.)

Once upon a time I was a conference in Monterey and a person on my panel said "Hey, you want to come sailing with us tomorrow? Of course I said yes. I met them at Treasure Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay and we took out a rather nice sloop - about 36". Wow were those guys great sailors!! And they helped me remember things I had forgotten from when I used to sail out from LA. Did I mention that these guys were really good sailors? Then a Navy ship dipped its flag as we passed. That was odd - until I took a closer look at our sails and the words "US Navy" on them. I was out with the US Navy's open ocean racing team!! No wonder they really, seriously knew what they were doing!!"

My parents once took the whole family on a cruise up to Alaska. In some ways I would say you can't count being on a cruise liner as being on a boat. They are more of a floating island, and you don't feel much oceanic motion.

I've been on a submarine tour to see the waters around Hawaii.

We lived on the coast at one point when I was growing up. So, I would regularly be on boats for various reasons: fishing boats, recreation boats, transport boats, etc.

When I was younger I didn't get motion sickness. I don't know if the same would be true now.

@Jon Alcibar (main) - I hear that the Bay of Biscay can be quite rough.

I kinda like rough weather on a boat - I have this perverse desire to be on a large ship on a crossing of the North Atlantic in May (when it can get super-dooper rough.)

I was once on a Coast Guard vessel (docked in Monterey, California - just north of the Big Sur coast) that was designed to go into heavy surf on rescue missions. The ship was designed to be able to roll over in the surf - even turn upside down and recover. It had huge motors - it was a very powerful ship. Every station for a person was heavily padded and had restraint belts and webbing. I never saw the crew in their rough weather gear, but I would assume that it included helmets.

Here in California it used to be required of all students that we read the book "Two Years Before the Mast".

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1840 sea voyage memoir by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

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I've never been on a boat long enough to get seasick, but with my vestibular disorder I assume I would eventually. When I was a wee sprout, my godparents' son got a motorboat and they took me out on it for a while. Did a couple of dinner cruises (max ~3h) on placid water, and the ferry from Cape May to Lewes once.

Also went whale watching once. It's probably a good thing Mr. Stranger sat us down in a booth and blocked me in, because I had a moment of panic as the boat set off and desperately wanted to do a Hollywood leap back onto the dock. By the end of the trip I loved it. Another lady and I were doing the Rose thing up near the bow (not sure that movie even existed yet).

I swim like a rock btw—partially due to the vestibular disorder and/or autism lack of extremity awareness, and partially due to the amount of fluid I retain leaving me less than buoyant.

Sorry if this is a repeat (not sure if I saw it here or on TV), but supposedly the thing that keeps boats from being too rock-y in rough water is being long enough to cover 3 waves. So if people get sick on a big cruise ship, that storm is bad.

My husband Grimm hates the Sea.

I can't swim, but I still love to listen to it and stick my feet in it!

(was kinda disappointed in Tampa... no roar, just lap, lap)