Re: [Paddlewise] Prescription glasses

In a message dated 1/13/00 6:14:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ptreby_at_ozemail.com.au writes:

> 
>  Doug Lloyd writes:
>  
>  
>  "Keeping sprayskirts and prescription glasses secured has been a bigger 
> issue.
>  Man, I hate wearing glasses for this sport! And I've had contacts washed 
out
>  too."
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  I currently use a pair of plastic rimmed glasses (no metal to corrode in 
> salt
>  water), with a folded neoprene retaining band held onto the arms of the 
> frame
>  by a tight whipping. I then attach a short length of bungy looped at each 
> end,
>  and clip this to my PFD. A fiddly arrangement, but when turbulent water
>  removes my glasses in surf, they are there dangling on the end of the bungy
>  cord ready to be retrieved. 
>  
>  
>  Has anyonel come up with a good arrangement for glasses? Is laser eye 
> surgery
>  the real solution?
>  

the solution for me for skiing and paddling has been soft contact lenses, but 
i recently asked someone who does wear glasses when he paddles and i think he 
mentioned prescription glasses/goggles for racquetball--am i remembering 
correctly woody?

amigh mariani
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