Glasses overboard amusing?

[extravert]

The Specsavers helmswoman seems to think it's something to smile about.

What's that boat then?

<hr width=100% size=1>One day, I want to be a real sailor. In the mean time I'll just keep tri-ing.

 

[boatless]

Is this referring to an ad I've not seen? Thing is, my last pair of Specsavers specs are just off the South end of the Folly pontoon. £400. Good friend's youngest whipped them off and chucked 'em in....

ps. Frames are not magnetic, much to my surprise and consternation.

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[Talbot]

If your glasses are/were like mine, then the frames are actually titanium. Great when you accidently sit on them, but a bit of a bother when they go splash!

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[boatless]

Don't know, always assumed that they were steel, since reading an article in YM/YW at least twenty years ago warning of the dangers of specs and hand bearing compass deflection. Now that I am optically challenged I wonder which is best, deviation of the bearing or just being unable to see the subject thereof?

They were £400 because of the Vari Focal bit, I think I'd willingly have paid more if they'd told me they were Titanium! Assumed that it was a half decent swarf alloy at the time.

After an hour or more of increasingly drunken searching (note that I was not skipper or in charge of the boat (but the owner/skipper was matching, nay leading me, drink for drink)) I decided that the Sea Searcher I'd borrowed had probably totally wrecked the lenses.

So, if anybody does recover them, I can give you the prescription.

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[Sybarite]

I had my first swim of the season this time last year when mine were whipped overboard in the marina. Got them though.

John

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[Twister_Ken]

Breach of Trade Description Act

£400 and they're allowed to call themselves Specsavers? Shome mishtake, shurely!

(Or maybe it was their chandlery division)

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[windandwave]

Capsized an assymetric violently once. Crew was wearing an expensive pair of sunglasses. Having lost many pairs, these ones were secured by a strap. He eventually breaks the surface: glasses still in place, but one lens missing! Lens retaining straps anyone?

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[extravert]

Yes. No one else seen it then?

<hr width=100% size=1>One day, I want to be a real sailor. In the mean time I'll just keep tri-ing.

 

[robp]

Through the kids playing in Guernsey last summer, we met a director of S/savers. (Non boaty lady). She spent an afternoon on our boat and with me having just lost my specs in St P Port harbour, I now know where they got the idea from!!

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[boatless]

Re: Breach of Trade Description Act

Quite. The replacements were 'only' £300 ish... but with a 'free' pair of sunglasses to the same VariFocal prescription. Meant to claim on my contents insurance, but never got round to it. Suspect that I'd get a premium increase anyway.

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[Andrew_Fanner]

Re: Breach of Trade Description Act

One of those times I remember why I wear contacts.

<hr width=100% size=1>Two beers please, my friend is paying.

 

[boatless]

Re: Breach of Trade Description Act

Nah, my glasses are the only things that make me look intelligent. If I were even halfway bright, I would have been wearing a string thing on them.

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