On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Sylvia Jacobs wrote: > I must wear glasses on the water. > The problem is that I have lost 2 pairs of prescription glasses > in as many years. Both times I capsized in large surf which swept the > glasses with Croakies right off my head. A fellow I know who taught sailboarding reported trouble with Croakies, too. He swears by Chums now. Chums has a nice Web site (http://www.chums.com/) where you can see their rather full product line and order retainers easily. The fat "Original" and thin "TechnoCrat" models would be my safe picks, though I confess to no real tests like yours, not yet. The good thing about those Chums models (I haven't actually seen a TechnoCrat) is that there's a bead that lets you adjust how tightly the glasses are held. Back the bead off on shore, but when you set out, snug those glasses to your face. I wouldn't trust any eyeglass retainers that weren't designed that way, including other Chums brand retainers (ala the "Classic", "Diplomat", "Librarian", etc.) -Peter The Intel Pentium III chip: it's like a surveillance camera in your computer screen. Watching you. All the time. Every day. Boycott Intel. Now. http://www.privacy.org/bigbrotherinside/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 05:23:30 PDT
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