Rikds
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How do you store yours for easy quick access? I don't have to wear them all the time but find them handy for the chart plotter. Got to be some smart ideas out there somewhere!!
Spectacles in the cockpit
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Stingo
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I used to hang a pair of cheap readers, often available from the likes of Aldi, at the wheel.
ash2020
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Contact lenses? That's what I do now.
Rikds
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Both good ideas! Tiller steering so nothing convenient there. The chart plotter is mounted by the instruments above the sliding hatch. Contact lenses not an option for all sorts of reasons.
Hanging them around my neck results in all sorts of chaos but sort of works!
Hanging them around my neck results in all sorts of chaos but sort of works!
guernseyman
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My spectacles and the spare pair both have lanyards for hanging round my neck, where they normally are when in the cockpit. If I venture out of the cockpit they will be placed on the passage plan adjacent to the compass or on the other side of the companionway.
thinwater
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Cheap readers. If you loose them now and then, who cares. I get most of them from the pound shop. Really.
You can get bifocal sunglass cheap; they are sold as safety glasses. About 8-10 pounds. try Amazon if the hardware store dos not have ones you like.
You can get bifocal sunglass cheap; they are sold as safety glasses. About 8-10 pounds. try Amazon if the hardware store dos not have ones you like.
Clancy Moped
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Rikds
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Yep, lanyards! Really trying to get away from them. But thanks for your time.
doug748
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As I only use them to peer closely at the plotter, I hook one arm, of a dedicated pair, to the trunnion mount and they live there permanently till needed.
Where it gets tricky is swapping between them, binoculars and sun glasses.
Where it gets tricky is swapping between them, binoculars and sun glasses.
Buck Turgidson
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If you have a spry hood, hang them from a loop tied around the frame or through the eye of the zipper.
ProDave
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Set the font size on the chart plotter to super large then for most things manage without.
Thistle
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Obviously I know nothing about your reasons for rejecting contact lenses but I wonder if you/your optician have considered the possibility of a contact lens in just one eye? Perhaps only for use when sailing?
johnalison
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I don't often need spectacles in the cockpit unless I am using the iPad as a repeater but if I haven't got a pocket I put them, or sunglasses, around one of the halyard winches under the sprayhood. Like most of my systems this is hopelessly inelegant but it generally works and I haven't lost any doing it. Yet.
Clancy Moped
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I've had enough of it and starting to investigate Lazer surgery, one eye for long, one for short, anyone else done this?
scottie
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Is there an age limit to this otion
Refueler
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I'm 67yrs old and the Opthalmic Surgeon who is treating me for Glaucoma and a Cataract advises that for older people such as I - better is to have Ocular Implant ... I can have variable so no need for any glasses - or set focal to give normal vision and then only need for reading.
I cannot use Contacts as my eyes water too much ...
I know two guys who have differing contacts .... one eye for normal ... other eye for reading. They are 30 day contacts.
Clancy Moped
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I'm 57 and the Specsavers opticians said fine in my case, approx €850 an eye excluding lenses.
Thistle
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I've had contacts like this for years and have found them a great solution to the problem. After an opthalmic surgeon growled at me for using monthly contacts, which he blamed for many of the cases of eye infections he sees, I was moved onto 14 day lenses. (Or, effectively, 12 day lenses because the opthalmologist wants me to have one day per week without lenses.)
Refueler
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Being an avid model flyer - even if I could wear Contacts - the split system as above have indicated - would not be viable.
I need the binocular function of two eyes in synch for depth and distance perception.
I need the binocular function of two eyes in synch for depth and distance perception.
jamie N
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I've been a serial 'loser of lenses' over my lifetime, and had tried pretty much every type of restraint, frame and holder for spectacles, with the only feature of note being the expense involved in losing the glasses.
This was normal UNTIL I went to Helgoland, where having found that I'd already lost one of my pairs of glasses, having only travelled by car to Cuxhaven and a ferry to Helgoland, so I went to an optician there and explained the problem. The bloke attending to me simply said, "Neck hanging spectacles", (in RP English by the way), "you'll never have the problem again", and sure enough I've not.
Mine aren't the brand shown, but I'd happily buy those shown as they address the issue. I've had mine since 2018; lots of sailing, working offshore and general stuffing about doing stupid things, and they've not ever gotten in the way, or fallen off.
This was normal UNTIL I went to Helgoland, where having found that I'd already lost one of my pairs of glasses, having only travelled by car to Cuxhaven and a ferry to Helgoland, so I went to an optician there and explained the problem. The bloke attending to me simply said, "Neck hanging spectacles", (in RP English by the way), "you'll never have the problem again", and sure enough I've not.
Mine aren't the brand shown, but I'd happily buy those shown as they address the issue. I've had mine since 2018; lots of sailing, working offshore and general stuffing about doing stupid things, and they've not ever gotten in the way, or fallen off.
