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? Regards, PT *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Peter. There was a documentary on TV recently about laser eye surgery. If the operation fails, you are screwed. The documentary cited at leaset 10% failure rate. Eyes too myopic or too much astigmatism have halo effects at night and in indoor lighting. The eyes "clock in" at 20/20 on the charts, and are deemed successful by the surgeon. Thus the statistics don't really purvey the true failure rate of the operation. Peter Treby <ptreby_at_ozemail.com.au> wrote: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:53:33 +1100 > To: paddlewise <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net> > Subject: [Paddlewise] Prescription glasses > > > Has anyonel come up with a good arrangement for glasses? Is laser eye surgery > the real solution? > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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