blind old gits...

[snowleopard]

a question only for those over 50...
when reading a chart at night do you
(a) manage with the red light over the chart table
(b) turn on the white light
(c) use the 1,000,000 candle power spotlight as well
(d) send for a younger crew member?

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[tugboat]

Small white chartlight, magnifying glass and lots of snazzle frazzle razzle (IYKWIM) /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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[chas]

small white light and a pair of shop reading glasses 1/2 a thingy more powerful than my normal ones.

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[Gunfleet]

Red one doesn't work, so it's white light AND glasses for me, I'm afraid. No 1 crew & son says 'how come you can see miles out on the horizon but you can't read the chart without glasses?' Oh to be 21 again.

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[dralex]

Can be a sign of early cataract if you're struggling in poor light. The lens needs better defined brighter images to focus.

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[mirabriani]

Well, it is certainly getting harder Chris.
Perhaps I should have listened to mum!
One of my crew invariably spots the buoys
before me and usually says "You should try Specsavers"

Regards and a Merry Christmas
Briani

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[pessimist]

Use the white light. Doesn't affect the night vision 'cos I don't have any - I rely on the radar.

Still want a crew?

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[Rowana]

1. Change glasses for most powerful pair
2. Take slimline torch out of pocket & switch on
3. Sometimes have to use magnifying glass as well.

But . .

I'm usually one of the first to spot flashing navigation marks at a distance

(I don't think I should say Buoys Flashing on this fourm !)


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[Talbot]

When it gets really bad, there is a magnifying device designed to enlarge the whole page of a book, that may be of value.
Unless we are secired alongside or at a mooring/anchor, the good glasses are secured away in a locker. I use the cheapos from a supermarket. Then everytime you renew them cause they are scratched you can easily go up a magnification without anyone else realising that it is no longer as easy to read the small print as it used to be. Discovered this year that the plotter has an ability to increase font size for the data read out so that I can read it without reaching for the glasses


Its not that my eyesight has got bad, its just that my arms are no longer long enough /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[snowleopard]

radar.... what radar?

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[Iota]

Flashlight and nose very very very very close to the chart and hope not seen

Iota

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[Cotillion]

Cabin light and x2.5 glasses for me. I could probably get away with a red light but as I try not to do nights I'm too lazy to rig one.

kim

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[pessimist]

If you'd just stop ruining your night vision you'd see it.

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[clouty]

Reading glasses live in chart table, night watch torch back up. Can't even operate GPS without specs...

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[duncan]

I use the backlight facility on my charts........../forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[sailorman]

much easier now varifocal rather than just "reading" glases as dont have to find them as there already in place, just like the old days.
also use red or at times a white one

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[Peppermint]

Re: Not so blind old gits...

I'm not 50 till Feb and I've never got on using the redlight.
Not for anything if you follow my drift.
I don't wear specs except for working on PC's. But the more light I can get on the chart the better.

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[DavidofMersea]

Talking of Specsavers, is that Micheal Howard in that advert under the blanket?

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[Ships_Cat]

I only use electronic charts on a PC - solves the problem completely. But confess that if try to read a paper chart it is specs (or small magnifier) and low level white light.

John

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[Solitaire]

/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif out loud! Tell me about it! I now have to wear readers around my neck on bits of string - two "red" torches plus a thumping great maglite. Then I had to buy new H/H GPS so I could see the screen. Trouble is, when I went for my commercial endorsement I could read the bottom line of the eye test card. Anything however within about six inches - <font size=1> what the f**k's that?</font size=1>

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