At 03:38 PM 7/19/2004 -0400, Joan wrote: >Sounds like fun. I have a question. I would roll to cool off more frequently >but it is such a major project! I can stick the hat under the bungees but the >glasses are the problem. > I decided to TRY to just deal with it last Sat. It was really hot. I >didn't the glasses off and then afterwards I had to just give up and wipe them >off so I could see where I was going. My usual is to stick them in the baggie >with the bandana I use to clean them. That is in my deck bag. But it does take >some time to CAREFULLY take them off and shove them in the bag with the lenses >to the cloth, zip it closed, shove it securely in the deck bag, zip the deck >bag, all for a 3 second roll! There has to be something I can put on the >lenses to help them shed water without making me feel like I'm looking through >hand-blown glass. Suggestions invited. A couple of weekends ago I was teaching a class with a student that wore glasses. She was wearing inexpensive sunglasses with these prescription stick on pieces for vision correction. It looked like a piece of plastic that could stick on (and easily peeled off) a pair of non-prescription glasses or sunglasses. She said that they could be purchased off the web. While they probably won't solve the problem of looking through hand-blown glass when when they're cheaper than prescription glasses. As someone else mentioned learning how to do a deep sculling brace would allow you to get your body and head wet without getting your glasses wet. I've also used a foam paddlefloat that I could slip on quickly, lie over the side, and come up easily without worrying about not coming up from a deep sculling brace. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 20 2004 - 09:20:56 PDT
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