Trading Partnerships. Good Business or.....

[StugeronSteve]

Sharp Practice?

I have just returned for the Optician's minus a substantial amount from my bank balance. Despite the protestations and denials of the delightful young lady Otholomologolist, or whatever she was, I am conviced that the UK producers of nautical charts are in league with the eye health industry.

I'm not of any great age for a yachtsman and I have retained my boyish good looks and all other, non-hair related, youthful attributes. So why should I believe my eyesight has progressively deteriorated with each successive folio of charts that I have purchased.

Is the print getting smaller, or am I becoming an old git?

 

[Colin_S]

Well the good news is that my eyesight seems to be getting worse lately and I'm pretty sure I'm not an old git so we're both safe on that score.

On a positive note, my wife presented me with a pair of reading glasses the other day which are every bit as good as the expensive opticians pair I purchased last year and they came with a clever little case that changes colour depending on how you close it - all for the princely sum of £1!

 

[StugeronSteve]

The b******s have got me there as well.

I am informed that the vision in my right eye is better than that required to fly a fast jet, but I shouldn't be let out on a push bike using my left!

Therefore, the cheapy reading glasses from Tesco, Marks and Sparks, Boots etc., ain't a lot of good.

 

[Colin_S]

Why not buy 2 pairs of different magnifications and do a 'cut and shut' jobbie on them?

 

[StugeronSteve]

Cunning as a fox that is a Professor of Cunning etc....

 

[Thistle]

Yeah, I know the feeling. But my optician is a pragmatic sort of chap who suggested that either he could make up - at considerable expense - a pair of reading glasses with one plain lens and one correcting lens or I could go to Boots / Tescos / ... , buy a pair of glasses - for a couple of quid - with the required correction and apply a hammer to the lens I didn't need.

I'll buy the optician a pint from the savings I made next time I see him in the pub!

 

[Sybarite]

At last you are becoming a presbyterian...!!

If you find it too dear try the Rev Ian. He's Free Presbyterian...

John

 

[Peppermint]

Re: Give me more light, damn it.

At fifty my eyes are a puzzle. My last two trips to the optician they've got better. Well according to her they have. I'm not convinced.

Even though I've bought the most super duper Sony monitor, anything more than an hour or two at the computer gives me a strong dose of parallax vision. Which is
very fuzzy.

It is a scientific fact that a 50 year old needs at least 25% more light to see by than he did at 25. So all that "My eyes are dim I cannot see" is just ages little joke.

The choice of colours on charts are a bit subtle for old eyes and I don't use the red light over the chart table anymore. No point worrying about your night vision on deck, if you can't see, on the chart, what it is you need to look out for.

That being said I can see well enough for a flight medical without glasses. So maybe there's a need to improve the rigor of the test.

 

[Colin_S]

Cut and shut specs

Remember that kid at school who always had an elastoplast holding his glasses together? Well now you know why!

 

[StugeronSteve]

Re: Give me more light, damn it.

[ QUOTE ]
Even though I've bought the most super duper Sony monitor, anything more than an hour or two at the computer gives me a strong dose of parallax vision. Which is
very fuzzy.

[/ QUOTE ] It's not the monitor or your eyes, that's what Scuttlebutt does to you.

 

[castaway]

I read that you need twice as much light at 40 as you did when 20....and twice as much again when 60...Now isnt that something to look forward to?

My most valuable piece of Nav gear is my magnifying glass with built in light source..!

Nick


www.yachtsite.co.uk/fairweather

 

[Danny_Labrador]

Old git !

sorry to be the purveyor of bad news but I am there too, can't believe I have to lift my glasses to wire a plug, (its embarrasing).

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Yep, I'm there too (although younger than you!). Two years ago only needed glasses to read when it was either late in the day or poor light. Now can't read anything without them. Its a bugger on the boat having to switch between specs at the chart table and shades in the cockpit - got mixed up many times.

They say every cloud has a silver lining - keeping your glasses on while you go for a pee, makes your willy look bigger! (Or is it less small? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif)

 

[Fill]

and then there's varifocals: I find that the reading bit of the lens is always in the wrong place and I still can't see the screen I want without weird contortions that get Mrs Mate asking if my neck has gone again.

The only good thing about getting old is when you consider the alternative. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[StugeronSteve]

[ QUOTE ]
keeping your glasses on while you go for a pee, makes your willy look bigger! (Or is it less small? )

[/ QUOTE ] Swmbo's has worn glasses, or contacts, for as long as I have known her. Hope her eyes don't improve!

 

[Sixpence]

Don't know who was searching for what when this one popped up ,, /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gifDare I ask , have they improved ?? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Richard10002]

[ QUOTE ]
Its a bugger on the boat having to switch between specs at the chart table and shades in the cockpit - got mixed up many times.

[/ QUOTE ]

I went to Specsavers and got 2 for the price of one..... I'm sure the final bill came to the price of 2 for the price of 2, but that's another story.... so I had my second pair as Polaroid sunglasses, and very good they are too.

Can see a chart reasonably well at the chart table in daylight, but mainly use the plotter at the helm, or on the PC on the saloon table, (which I can see from the helm).

The only problem with Polaroid is that if you turn your head on its' side one way, instrument, plotter and PC screens go blank, (they have been polarised). First time this happened, I played with the instrument switches cause I thought they had failed.... then I thought I had fixed them.... then I discovered what Polaroids do to screens.

Made not the slightest bit of difference to the size of my todger!!