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Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Sunglasses?
From: Rosalie B. (gmbeasley@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 12:02:28 EDT
On Thu, 22 May 2003 10:54:46 -0400, you wrote:
>A little off-topic, but generally related to the subject of eyewear....
>
>I cannot see anything much without my prescription eyeglasses. These are a
>major pain when sailing, particularly to windward. The surface of the lenses
>soon gets coated with salt, and it gets to be like looking through a heavy
>fog. The only way to get it off is to wash them in fresh water then use
>solvent and cleaning cloths to remove the smearing. This takes at least 10
>minutes, and it doesn't even take that long before it needs doing again.
>What do other visually-challenged sailors do?
Get a dryer boat?
Seriously - Bob and I are both farsighted. He can't read anymore
without reading glasses and so he just doesn't read when at the wheel.
He can see the compass and the GPS and the computer charts well enough
without his glasses and he wears sunglasses most of the time when
underway. He has the big wraparound kind
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I OTOH have been wearing bifocals for about 20 years. The main
problem I have is with the glasses leaving my face, as they did when
someone threw me a line and the bitter end hit me on the bridge of the
nose (I don't catch or throw well) which knocked my glasses off into
Nassau harbor. For this I put those rubber things on the legs with a
cord that goes around in back of my neck.
My other problem is protecting my eyes from sun, and I have
self-darkening lenses. I sometimes wear polarized sunglasses over top
of these glasses in order to see coral heads better when Bob sends me
out on the bow to look.
Possibly solutions to salt spray --
Wear contact lenses
Wear clip-on sunglasses over your regular glasses and flip them up
when you really need to see.
There are some types of safety goggles that are made to go on over
prescription glasses - have two pair of those and wear one while you
are cleaning the other one. (jockeys do something like this when the
track is muddy)
Put saran wrap on top of the glasses and just peel it off and replace
with clean wrap
Have a small container of fresh water and two cloths next to you -
wash glasses off with one cloth and dry with the other one (don't get
them mixed up -maybe have one red and one white- because that will
make having two a moot point. Salt gets into the drying cloth if you
use it for washing too -- we have different towels for drying off
salty water and fresh water from our bodies - the ones used for salt
water get sticky)
grandma Rosalie
S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
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