riojasailer
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I must declare an interest - I'm an optometrist and I think I might use this thread as a valuable teaching aid for students.
There is no correct answer to the problem (apart from getting younger) but in general contact lenses for distance with reading specs/ sunspecs etc as required works very well for a lot of my sailing patients. Daily disposable lenses are especially useful as you don't have to look after them and the newer silicone hydrogel constant wear lenses can be great if you can't be sure that you'll be able to remove them for a few days.
For those that can't wear contacts (like myself) then varifocals are the next best line of attack but its really whatever works best and as each of us is individual there are going to be lots of individual solutions.
One thing to watch out for - some clip on sunspecs are now made with little magnets to attach them to the frame - they don't half make a mess of bearings taken with some hand bearing compasses - north is always just behind your head.
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There is no correct answer to the problem (apart from getting younger) but in general contact lenses for distance with reading specs/ sunspecs etc as required works very well for a lot of my sailing patients. Daily disposable lenses are especially useful as you don't have to look after them and the newer silicone hydrogel constant wear lenses can be great if you can't be sure that you'll be able to remove them for a few days.
For those that can't wear contacts (like myself) then varifocals are the next best line of attack but its really whatever works best and as each of us is individual there are going to be lots of individual solutions.
One thing to watch out for - some clip on sunspecs are now made with little magnets to attach them to the frame - they don't half make a mess of bearings taken with some hand bearing compasses - north is always just behind your head.
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