blind old gits...

[aitchw]

By the time the chart is far enough away to be in focus it's all too b****y small to read.

Reading glasses and white light or illuminated map reading magnifier.

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[snowleopard]

thanks everyone. i feel much better about it.

white overhead light, flexible chart light with red filter removed, magnifying glass, large torch... and to think that 20 years ago i could read the small print under a dim red glow :-(

interesting that the chart folios i bought for the caribbean each contain a fresnel magnifying sheet! but then almost everyone out there is a wrinkly.

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[penultimate]

Not many people seem to know the dodge of using one eye of your 7 x 50 binos the wrong way round. Makes an excellent magnifying glass.

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[Mirelle]

Even better...

when you drop your glasses OB and you are singlehanded you can often* screw the binoculars the other way and see something with them. Enough to finish a coastal passage, anyway

Don't ask me how I know that...

*depending on just how myopic you are and the make of the binoculars - may be worth checking in the shop!

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[billmacfarlane]

I'm afraid it's white loght and a pair of reading Gregorys.

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[ccscott49]

Exactly what I use, not bright enough to destroy night vision, brillint little thing! Know whe re I can get a new one?

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[BobE]

I refuse to Answer on the grounds it might..... Oh I can't see the keeeyubd
Chersd BibR ...


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