51LikesOffshore aches and pains
06-04-2019, 07:57 PM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 244
Offshore aches and pains
Anyone else get serious neck and shoulder pains from running offshore and staring at screens..? After 3 days I am in a lot of pain and its affecting my work.
Any tips other than bigger screens and a bigger boat?
Any tips other than bigger screens and a bigger boat?
06-04-2019, 08:30 PM
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Fla / Curacao / WA
Posts: 4,726
Sometimes the best looking dash is eurgonomicly bad for your neck. Are your screens down low or way up in an overhead? I used to tease a buddy about his top mounted gear till I spent a full day hunched over my slick new flush mount. Ouch
06-04-2019, 09:14 PM
#3
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 244
Originally Posted by v12mac
Sometimes the best looking dash is eurgonomicly bad for your neck. Are your screens down low or way up in an overhead? I used to tease a buddy about his top mounted gear till I spent a full day hunched over my slick new flush mount. Ouch
06-05-2019, 04:43 AM
#4
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 865
I tell people that fishing offshore in a small boat might not be exercise, but it's always a workout. We often go 60 miles out, troll 30 miles or so, and then 60 miles back. That's roughly the equivalent of a 150 mile trip on a bumpy road at 30 mph. That being said, we do it every chance we get.
06-05-2019, 05:03 AM
#7
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: CT
Posts: 4,085
Originally Posted by Bgoodman4
Anyone else get serious neck and shoulder pains from running offshore and staring at screens..? After 3 days I am in a lot of pain and its affecting my work.
Any tips other than bigger screens and a bigger boat?
Any tips other than bigger screens and a bigger boat?
06-05-2019, 06:12 AM
#8
Admirals Club 
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 80
Autopilot has actually worked wonders for me. 30 mile runs sitting and watching the water versus 30 mile runs correcting speed and steering are very different. I always thought people were exaggerating the utility, but it is something I'll never be without again.
06-05-2019, 06:22 AM
#9
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: CT
Posts: 4,085
Originally Posted by FloridaIR
Autopilot has actually worked wonders for me. 30 mile runs sitting and watching the water versus 30 mile runs correcting speed and steering are very different. I always thought people were exaggerating the utility, but it is something I'll never be without again.
06-05-2019, 07:00 AM
#10
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 268
Anti fatigue mat at the helm and good shoes. I finally got the anti fatigue mat a few weeks ago and did wonders. I run a 18ft CC and ran a total of 50 miles out in the ocean and felt much better than I normally would the next day.
06-05-2019, 04:54 PM
#11
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 244
Originally Posted by 1stchunt
I tell people that fishing offshore in a small boat might not be exercise, but it's always a workout. We often go 60 miles out, troll 30 miles or so, and then 60 miles back. That's roughly the equivalent of a 150 mile trip on a bumpy road at 30 mph. That being said, we do it every chance we get.
06-05-2019, 04:57 PM
#13
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 244
Originally Posted by FloridaIR
Autopilot has actually worked wonders for me. 30 mile runs sitting and watching the water versus 30 mile runs correcting speed and steering are very different. I always thought people were exaggerating the utility, but it is something I'll never be without again.
06-05-2019, 04:58 PM
#14
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 244
Originally Posted by fishypete
Anti fatigue mat at the helm and good shoes. I finally got the anti fatigue mat a few weeks ago and did wonders. I run a 18ft CC and ran a total of 50 miles out in the ocean and felt much better than I normally would the next day.
06-05-2019, 05:07 PM
#15
Admirals Club
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Westchester, NY
Posts: 615
Agree with autopilot and advil (the day after)
Slow down in seas that you would ordinarily just plow into
Pick your days
For a few years now I've realized I can't go out consecutive days
It's tough but I've limited myself to fishing every other day
Not a bad problem to have
Slow down in seas that you would ordinarily just plow into
Pick your days
For a few years now I've realized I can't go out consecutive days
It's tough but I've limited myself to fishing every other day
Not a bad problem to have
06-05-2019, 05:24 PM
#16
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: NC - TI
Posts: 1,086
autopilot and ear plugs are two things that you should never leave the dock without. No pain in my head, but I'm 54 and am convinced that my loss of hearing is directly related to outboards, mainly 2 strokes for hours on end back and forth from the stream.
06-05-2019, 05:36 PM
#17
Admirals Club
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: PBG FL
Posts: 441
Originally Posted by Bgoodman4
Its been a slow year I have a memory foam bath mat... Which mat do you recommend? I looked at the sea dek but I am not sure it will make much of a difference.
Birdsall
06-05-2019, 06:16 PM
#19
Admirals Club
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Posts: 333
Originally Posted by toristoy
i've had several different makes from marine stores. This one from Birdsall Marine has been the best. Seems like same stuff physical therapists has.
Birdsall
