Sailing Watch Recommendations

I spent a fair amount of time researching this one. The Casio sea pathfinder does the business at around £18. They do a cheaper one at under £10 but it has a very poor display. both of these have rubber straps that fail after a couple of years and cost more to replace than a replacement watch.

Casio also do a metal watch with analog and digital display for £50 that looks good but beware, it comes with black or white background and the black one is almost unreadable.

See here.

There is an analog-only Timex with tide temperature and barometer options for £100-120. They are huge.

There are also offerings from Rip Curl and Nixon in the £100+ range.
 
Sailing watch

I have an Optimum Time Jumbo sailing watch, which has 5 minute countdown, stopwatch and ordinary time. Usefully it can do multiple countdowns, handy when you are not in the first flight to start. Being big it can be read at a glance and beeps at the minutes etc.

They do a variety of watches with various features at varying prices.
 
[QUOTE Casio also do a metal watch with analog and digital display for £50 that looks good but beware, it comes with black or white background and the black one is almost unreadable.QUOTE]

Ditto the Casio Ana-Digital watches which are quite unreadable in poor light. But the functions are good and they seem robust other than that the glass scratches very easily.
 
Based on my success rate with watches, i would vote for the cheapest casio sea pathfinder. I have one (waiting for the strap to be repaired at present, so resurected my tidemaster) and I have found it excellent though you have to watch the dual time facility if you use it.
 
maxi77 said:
Based on my success rate with watches, i would vote for the cheapest casio sea pathfinder. I have one (waiting for the strap to be repaired at present, so resurected my tidemaster) and I have found it excellent though you have to watch the dual time facility if you use it.
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The problem of accidentally pushing buttons and altering the display is a nuisance with all digitals but, as you say, the Casio dual time is a pain. Each accidental nudge of a button changes the time by 1/2 hour. It's caused me no end of problems abroad.

My present Casio switches into sun azimuth mode when nudged. Now what's the point of that?
 
I got one of these (Suunto Observer), display is hard to read in many conditions (too light, too dark), not sure about the non-negative face. Also looks a bit small on the wrist of a big man like myself :).

http://www.sailgb.com/p/suunto_observer_stainless_steel_w_leather_strap_negative_face/

I then got one of these (Suunto Core)... abolsutely the dogs gonads. Bigger time text easier to read in many conditions good backlight. Can press the buttons underwater. Excellent barograph - showing the trend. Not so good for the stopwatch function - displays in quite small text at the bottom of the screen.

http://www.sailgb.com/p/suunto_core_all_black_2008/
 
Locator watch.....

A variation on the automaticlly activated when under water 121 mhz ( beacon) watch that used to be sold by Mcmurdo, although I believe the radio dirrection antenna is still sold by its German manufacturer.

This works as a regular watch BUT sends a signal on a ( not monitored) freq. used by coastguard and military as a locator.

It seems sad that such a device is no longer sold. Perhaps production costs were too high or sales too low.
 
I've just bought a Casio SGW-100 sports watch. It's pretty good - compass, temp, water resist 200m, 5 alarms, big numbers & easy to read, excellent backlighting, good countdown and split timers & dual time functions. All for around £50. Worked v well so far.
 
ianabc said:
A variation on the automaticlly activated when under water 121 mhz ( beacon) watch that used to be sold by Mcmurdo, although I believe the radio dirrection antenna is still sold by its German manufacturer.

This works as a regular watch BUT sends a signal on a ( not monitored) freq. used by coastguard and military as a locator.

It seems sad that such a device is no longer sold. Perhaps production costs were too high or sales too low.
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You can still buy the Breitling Emergency watch with 121Mhz locator beacon. A bargain at £3,800!

I guess I'll have to make do with my Casio Sea pathfinder while I'm saving up.
 
Optimum Time 628B stainless case. Large display, backlight and built in countdown timers. The resin case version has the same qualities but cheaper. I bought it because I prefer not to have to wear glasses when sailing ( required for reading) and the large display can be seen
 
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