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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2006 - 07:57:03 EDT
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:59:57 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>i also lost a pair while doing an anchor check at 0300
>and the boat rolled and lost my balance and the jib
>line flipped them off. again an an xski instructor i
>wear crookies all the time - from the time i get on to
>the time i go home - i may look like a geek some times
>but my glasses stay on
>chuck and SoulMates
>
That reminds me - when Bob and I were dating, he took me and my mom
out in a sailboat at the US Naval Academy where he was a midshipman
(that's where he learned to sail and to love sailing). Something - I
don't remember what - caught his watch band, and the watch case came
open and the works popped out. He grabbed them out of the air, but
the band and case went into the water. I kept them a long time,
hoping to put them back into a case for him, but eventually decided it
was more expensive than it was worth.
>--- "Rosalie B." <> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:52:15 -0500, you wrote:
>> >We
>> >haven't found a good solution for keeping them
>> clean during rain. We have,
>> >however, learned to carry at least 3 pair on the
>> boat at all times because
>> >he has leaned over while looking down and handling
>> lines, etc., and lost his
>> >glasses overboard several times. PITA.
>>
>> That has happened to Bob also, and he also lost a
>> partial plate out of
>> his pocket while tying the boat up.
>>
>> I had my glasses knocked off my nose by someone who
>> threw me a line as
>> we were casting off from the dock in Nassau and my
>> glasses when into
>> the harbor. After I got Bob to stop (he doesn't
>> hear well), we went
>> back into the slip and when the tide stopped
>> running, we could see the
>> glasses on the bottom. The water was clear enough
>> that the self
>> darkening lenses showed up against the sand. We got
>> them out with a
>> pool net.
>>
>> After that, I put one of those glasses retainers on
>> my glasses when
>> I'm aboard. I don't know what it is called, but it
>> hooks to the legs
>> of the glasses and goes around the back of the neck.
>>
>> Bob wears trousers with zip off lower legs and cargo
>> pockets that zip
>> or button up. He puts all that stuff in those
>> pockets which are both
>> less likely to be upsidedown and also more secure.
>>
>> grandma Rosalie
>>
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