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Sea Kayaks Techniques Bulletin Board
Re: Sunglasses and rolling
Posted By: Andy Waddington In Response To: Sunglasses and rolling (Malcolm Schweizer)
Date: Monday, 22 January 2007, at 4:55 a.m.
: P.S. Wear a helmet, which would have saved me all this grief. Now I wear a
: brain bucket when surfing near rocks. In deep water it stows on deck.Yes, it the stowage when not rock gardening that is the pain, isn't it ? All
that windage on deck :-( I tend to wear contact lenses for any outdoor sports,
as I can never see through any kind of glasses which are fogged, spotted, iced
or salt-encrusted. I used to lose a lens if I so much as looked at a sink of water, but I find that the day-use ones (last for about fifty days, and cost very little to lose) stay in whilst rolling, swimming and for most other
activities. We have a Wet'n'Wild with a tube ("Kamekaze") that has a 15m
almost-vertical drop at the start, and riding that, you hit water at the
bottom VERY fast - I find a pair of swimming goggles is necessary for this
extreme but not for any of the other rides. You can get visors for helmets -
either opaque for high sun, or coloured that pull down a bit more for low sun.
Getting salt all over these is nowhere near as much bother as getting salt
dried onto glasses !Andy
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