Get the patch! I use it all the time when I'm at sea. Despite my fanatical love for being on a ship, I am one of the unfortunate ones who gets mal-de-mar when I stir my coffee too fast. With it, I've never experienced a moment's queeziness, and I've been through some rough waters (including one transatlantic crossing with 40-foot waves). It works perfectly at exorcising that demon in the inner ear!
Had it at the time. Didn't work. Perhaps if I had wound myself in them as though I were a mummy . . .
I'm surprised it didn't work for you, Crisey! Like I said, I'll get sea sick watering my lawn, but when I put the patch on, I'm good as gold. One time, while crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth 2, we hit that storm with forty foot waves and the ship pitched like a bucking bronco. I had the time of my life. I had supper in the dining salon with only 50 other passengers (it seated over 1,000 in two sittings) and then went to a "pitching party" in the ship's disco and had a blast. My friends who were in our shared cabin ended up in the hospital getting a shot in the poop deck with hundreds of others.
Try the mummy treatment with the patch! You can be like Krusty the Klown on The Simpsons who tried using the nicotine patch to quit smoking. He had them all over his body and had to keep licking them! (Hysterical scene!)
Gerard